Trampoline

 

We bought Ellie a trampoline off of a friend of a friend a few weeks ago.  Ellie was very excited when we started to move all the parts to the backyard.  I had no idea that it came in so many pieces, but Ellie didn’t care.  She started helping me move the parts around the yard, and was putting flowers (weeds) into the screw holes.  The springs and screws also when inside the metal legs. (We still can’t find one of the springs.) As I was attaching the matte to the frame, Ellie was trying to jump on it and didn’t understand why she wasn’t bouncing. 

Christmas

On Christmas morning Ellie woke around 7.  We read a Christmas book in bed then headed downstairs to see if there was anything for Ellie. The reindeer’s carrot had bites taken out of it and Santa ate half of the cookie.   I can report Ellie must have been a very good girl with the amount of gifts she received.  She loved opening presents and playing with her new toys.  All the presents wore her out and she had an extra nap in the morning before opening more presents, visiting with friends and swimming.  Victoria baked delicious apple and cherry pies for dessert.

Merry Christmas

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Poos

We have started down the potty training road.  Ellie knows to tell us if poos are coming, but she doesn’t really care about sitting on the potty.  Today was Wednesday, daddy’s morning, and I was busy playing with Ellie and the Little People’s house since it was raining on and off outside.  Ellie said to me “poos coming” and I ask if Ellie need the potty, she responded “no”.  She then kept saying “Poos coming” and I kept asking her if she needed the potty.  Still the answer was “no”.  Then I realized that she was pointing to the Little People’s house and the chicken was sitting on the potty.  “Daddy, poos coming”.   I guess I still have lots to learn.

Summer Hat

 

Ellie was checking out her new summer hat on a walk to get the mail. Apona, the neighbor’s horse, traded a hat compliment for some grass on our way back to the house.

"E"

Ellie’s Elf on the Shelf arrived at our house on December 1st along with the Elf on the Shelf book.  Ellie named her Elf “E”.  She knows that “E” moves every night, from his trip to the North Pole to see Santa, and she has to find him every morning. (I am not really sure she understands the Santa part yet, but Victoria and I keep explaining it to her.)  Ellie will get to the bottom of the stairs and call out “E” just like she does for the cat and will walk around looking and calling for “E”.  Once she finds him, she gets all excited and points to him and says”E, E, E”

Ice Cream

It was a beautiful sunny day last Wednesday. Ellie, Victoria, and I went to the beach. Ellie enjoyed swinging for a very long time and a walk on the sand looking for shells. Ellie was a “Good Girl”, which she calls herself even if she isn’t, and as a treat got an ice cream cone. She still doesn’t understand how to eat one, as the ice cream was dripping down the cone and then a short time later decided to take a bite out of the cone.

It’s Hot

The last few days here have been hot, really hot. Ellie has been spending time in the baby pool or her friend’s pool keeping cool. But at night, she can’t get to sleep. We have been leaving her window and door open and the fan on, but still no sleep. Last night, Ellie’s cat decided to help Ellie sleep. Ellie started talking and I found the cat sleeping in her cot. Next, Ellie was calling out because one of her dolls accidentally fell out of the cot and somehow landed across the room. She finally went to sleep one and a half hours after we put her down. Does she look like she is sleeping in the picture?

Baby Toys

Ellie’s friend Susie has a baby brother that is 17 weeks old. The girls love playing in the baby gym when he is napping. This is Ellie now playing in the gym compared to a picture when she was 4 months old.

Goggles

“Goggles Daddy”. Ellie will go into my closet and find the goggles. She now knows how to put them on and will walk around the house wearing them. Sometimes the goggles go missing, but Ellie knows they are hiding.

Tunnel

Tunnels rank third on Ellie’s outside toy list, after swings and slide. She loves climbing through the tunnel and will even bring a doll or teddy bear with her. Spike also likes Ellie’s tunnel, but Ellie is not very happy when Spike is laying in it and will ask for Spike to be moved.

Ellie's Pool

Ellie has a small blue pool that we can easily fill up on our deck on hot days. She will sit, lay, swim, splash, drink, and transfer water from one bucket to another while playing in the pool. The little people are also included in the pool actives, sorry little people. She will wash, sink, feed and help them drink and then take them out of the water as shake them to get all the water out of them. After the pool Ellie will bring in a little person / little horse in the house and will shake them again, putting water on the floor and then say “Messy”.

First Fireworks

Ellie got to experience Fireworks for the first time a few weeks ago to celebrate Guy Fawkes day with our friends. Ellie seemed to really enjoy the sparklers, but when we lit one of the bigger fireworks, Romain Candles (I think) Ellie started to move away and said “Bye Bye”. We stopped lighting the bigger ones and stuck to the small one after that.