You're Not Swinging?

Ellie responded "It's not swinging, its toe swinging!"

Hanging Chair

Ellie now has a hanging chair in her room.  She hides, reads or plays with dolls in it. Her chair is normally well stocked with her favorite books.  We can take down the chair when she has many friends over.  We have also discussed that it is a chair for sitting not a swing.

Our Apples

Our poor little apple tree finally has some small apple on it.  The birds have eaten most but there was one that was untouched.  I didn’t think it was ready to be picked but Ellie wanted to get to it before the birds did.

The second picture is blurry because I wasn’t ready and the apple was so sour Ellie made a very funny face.  I took the picture as fast as I could.

Stacking Lunch

Ellie has been a big help in the kitchen.  She enjoys preparing item for cooking or picking out what we are going to eat for our meal.  Here not only has she decided what we are going to have for lunch, she made it into a tall tower.

Ellie's Spinach

Ellie grew spinach and sweet corn at school from seeds.  Now with school over for the holidays, she brought them home to plant in our veggie garden.

Hanger Art

Once again Ellie surprised us with more hanger art.

Practicing photography – Ring Light

I wanted to try something a little different for a head-shot of me that I will use on the web later on this year.  I’ve had a ring light adapter for my flash for a long time but never really had the chance to learn how to use it and how the subject should pose.

With it raining outside, Ellie and I got right down to business.  She placed the freshly charged batteries in the flash and I went to get the tripod.  My idea was to set the camera up and with the timer just take a few pictures of myself to see the differences with my position and the camera’s position.  Ellie didn’t want to use the timer; she wanted to be the one taking the pictures.  We than took turns taking pictures of each other and every so often I was able to turn the timer on and get both of us together in the shot.