Preparing for Cooper (Giraffe Kiwi Bird)

Victoria has been busy preparing for Cooper’s arrival; Ellie has been doing her part.  She has helped replace batteries in the toys and tested Cooper’s baby play gym.

Tomatoes from our Garden

Ellie is enjoying the tomatoes from our garden.  She doesn’t give Victoria or I a chance to eat the cherry tomatoes, most of them don’t even make it out of the garden.

4 year old checks

Ellie had her 4 year old checks yesterday and passed with flying colours.  She is 108 cm tall (42.5 inches or 3 ½ feet) and weighs 20kg (44 pounds).

New Boots

From outside I hear, “Daddy look at my new boots!”

Ellie’s 4th Birthday

Ellie had her 4th birthday party at the aquarium with her 15 closest friends.  She was so excited and told everyone about her party.  She loved getting splashed, while feeding the fish.  She will tell you that one of her friends little brothers didn’t like getting wet but she did.  Ellie was so happy that Mummy made her a dolphin fin to wear on her head and didn’t take it off the entire day.

Photo Helper

Ellie was adamant that she was going to help me take a picture of this old photograph for a friend.  The problem was the glass in the frame was very, very reflective and I had to try to find a place where I wouldn’t see anything other than the picture and it being an old picture we couldn’t take it out of the frame.  Ellie was to be helping by holding up the black reflector but during the process she decided she wanted to be in the picture.

Birds in the Tree

After having a picnic in the park and taking some photos, we noticed a tree filled with birds.  Ellie was fascinated and asked to have her picture taking with all the birds.