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?
“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.
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 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”.
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. 
