Ellie Pictures

Ellie wants to be an active participant in everything we do from reading books to washing the dishes.  Here she is trying to take pictures using Mummy’s camera.  I did show her how the camera worked, but she wanted to use it her way. 

Cat and Stickers

Spike has to endure a lot from Ellie and the other kids when they come over and play.  He is gentle with the kids and usually lets them do whatever they want.  Ellie keep picking Spike up and carrying him out of the room the other day because she didn’t want him to bother her toys.   In this picture, you can see Ellie has placed a heart sticker on the cat.  Poor Spike!

Giant Balloon

Ellie and Victoria watched a hot air balloon land on a hill that we could see from the house one morning I was working.  She was excited and told me later all about this “Giant Balloon”.   The next day I was taking Ellie to swimming lessons and we passed a Land Rover pulling the basket for a hot air balloon and I explained to Ellie that basket was part of the Giant Balloon. 

One week later, I called a hot air balloon company by us and asked if we could see the balloon take off.  They said that is was no problem, but to watch your kid, because the fire scares them.  So I woke up at 5:30 on Saturday and called to make sure they were launching.  Good news, they were and I was meeting them in 20 minutes at the petrol station to go to the launching site.  Bad news, my car decided not to start.  I woke everyone up and ended up taking Victoria’s car and just caught the group as they were pulling out of the petrol station.   It ended up that they were launching only 15 minutes away from the house.  I called Victoria and she was in the progress of getting Ellie ready.  I went back to the house, picked them up and then drove to the site.
Ellie didn’t know what we were trying to show her at first, but once she realized why we were walked in a field at 6 in the morning she was so excited.  “Giant Balloon, Giant Balloon”. 

It was a great family outing.  Ellie was able to see the balloon, basket and people all around.  Then 15 minutes later she got to see the fire.  She jumped when they lit the fire, but she loves fire and kept looking.  She talked about the people in the basket, the giant balloon, and the candle (the fire looked like a candle once it took off).

Thanks Victoria for taking a great photo of Ellie and me!

Fairies like Cereal

Ellie wanted to wear her fairy wings down to Breakfast.  She went into the pantry, stood on her stool and pick out here bubble cereal.  She didn’t want to wait for me to pour it into the bowl, so she helped herself.   At least fairies use spoons when eating the cereal out of the container.

Always Helping

I was busy installing a phone line to the spare bedroom the other day when Ellie came home from a friend’s house.  She was exciting to see Dada working.  She came right over, grabbed some tools and sat down.  I was trying to attach the wires in the box and had my head close as the wired are small but I was blocking Ellie’s view.  She said “Dada, Ellie see” and then proceeded to move my head out of the way.  I then took a short break and tried to explain what I was doing and what the tools were for.  As I was finishing up I gave her the job of screwing the cover back on, which she enjoyed!

First Day of Preschool

Ellie is a school girl now.  She goes two mornings a week and seems to love it.  There is a lot of talk about the swings and the sand box.  On her last trail day with mum, Ellie decided school was great after getting a cupcake for one of the kid’s birthday.

Fun with Balloons

Ellie has been fascinated with balloons lately.  She knows where we keep them and will open the closet door and say “Ellie balloon, balloon Ellie, please”.  She can’t blow them up herself yet, but she does try.  I showed her that balloons can sing and she thought it was funny, that air comes rushing out and blows in her face when  you don’t hold on tight.   We also experimented with chalk.  Did you know that when the balloon is big, you can’t really see the chalk face, but as you slowly let out the air the face appears?  Ellie and I did this for atleast 10 minutes.