Holding Hands

Now that Cooper is a little bigger, Ellie has started to play with him.  She will roll the ball to him or hand it to him if he is lying down, show him how to grab his hanging toys, tap on his belly to make him laugh.  This weekend she is going to show him how to crawl!

Photographing Ellie

Ellie loves looking at photographs of her friends and herself.  She will sit on the couch and spend 10 minutes or more flipping through all the old blog pictures and telling us stories about the photos and those moments.

While I try to capture natural pictures of her and now Cooper, she makes it a challenge.  She is either hiding, making funny faces or moving too fast and wanting me to run after her.  Then there are moments I get lucky.  This is one of those photos.  I was taking a few pictures of Cooper with Ellie in the room but not paying attention to me.   I asked her to turn around and I quickly took the picture before she knew what was happening!

Normally, I ask her if I can take pictures of her.

Sleep Over Mess

One of Ellie’s best friends came over for a sleep over.  They were both very good at bed time.  They were talking but no load noises to wake up Cooper.  They both awoke early but stayed in Ellie’s room until 7.  When I went to see what they wanted for breakfast, I saw the both of them dressed in the dress up cloths and the baby dolls were all in bed sleeping.  For the rest of the room, I wasn’t sure where the floor went.

Ellie's Picture

Cooper, Ellie with the longest rainbow hair, Mummy, Daddy and a tiny monkey on the bottom.  Notice Ellie is the only one with a heart tummy button.

Wheels on the Bus

Ellie has learned some new parts of the Wheels on the Bus song from a few school friends.

Wheel on the bus go round and round
Teenagers on the bus go Text, Text, Text
Daddies on the bus go Wait, Wait, Wait
Then she was getting silly and added
Babies on the bus go Wah, Baa, Baa

Big Sister, Ellie

Ellie loves her little brother.  She calls Cooper, “Little Man”.  She always wants to go into his room to get him up and will go and say goodnight to him every night. 

Always Helping

Ellie can make anything into a game.  I was out taking pictures of Victoria’s car before selling it and Ellie wanted to help.  She put stuffed animals on the car seats and cup holders.  Then instead of holding the reflector or catching the one that was blowing away in the wind, she decided to cover her head so I couldn’t see her!