Computer Painting

While computer painting isn’t as dirty or fun as real painting, Ellie gets excited when she can use the computer.   We help her change brushes and colours and leave the creative part up to her.

Rabbit Hat

 

The picture says it all!

After Helping with the Alpacas

After helping the alpaca’s find the long grass in the garden, Ellie went back to her two favorite outdoor activities; swinging and picking flowers.

Alpaca’s and Ellie helping

The first step to preparing our vegetable garden was to get rid of the high grass.  We thought this would be a good job for the alpacas.  The garden area doesn’t directly connect to the paddock, so we had to put up a temporary fence.
 
Ellie helped put the tape fence up and tested out the path from the paddock to the garden.  Then she called through the fence to the alpacas and told them to follow the leader, which was her.  She then proceeded to walk again from the paddock to the garden.  The alpacas watched her and when they didn’t follow she started to talk to them about how they needed to play the game with her.

Finding “R”

Ellie went on a hunt around the house to find all the “R” she could.  This included the letter “R” on objects and things that started with “R”.  Then Ellie worked on some action verbs that started with “R”, running and rolling.

New Aplacas

Ellie, Victoria and I welcomed 2 new alpacas into our family.  We now have 4 alpacas eating, sleeping, and playing in our paddock.  They were named before coming to us, faerytale and Bubba, but Ellie has already changed their names to packa Spike and packa Ellie.

Coloured Light

Ellie has had a fascination for light bulbs for the last few years.  She will spot the bulb that is not working and tell us that we need to take her to the light bulb shop to get a new one.  While there, she will take herself to the lava lamp display and watch the bubbles change shape.

For a while now she has been asking for a red bulb for her room.  While we didn’t just want a red bulb in her lamp, I found this one that can change colours.  She helped me install a new light fixture and put the new special bulb in.  Now, she has a little remote that she can choose the colour of the light that she wants and picks the colour to go to sleep with. 

The light isn’t as bright as the pictures makes it look.  The exposure was 3 seconds long for each shot.