Lachie Laughs
While his cheesy grin is more distressing than smile inducing, who can resist laughing at Dad’s high pitched cooing? Not me.
Iced-T
Beyond monthly fact updates, this is a great example of watching Elimena in her natural habitat.
- She loves Iced-T.
- She pronounces her words carefully (Ice-d T) but also enjoys long sentences that clearly make sense to her.
- Elimena likes to celebrate success & happiness with a self-congratulatory clap.
- She is very aware of the people around her, and always talks about her family a lot. Mama? Dada? Baby?
- She enjoys wearing a Dorothy the Dinosaur outfit and likes to point at it saying “Dor-e-thy”. When putting it on we always say bye-bye to her toes and “h-ands”.
- Lately, Elimena also enjoys her injuries – talking about them, having them kissed better and hopefully remembering to point at the correct spot.
Eli Knievel
No offense Doh-Doh, but riding around the house in tandem on my bike with Josh and Nate is a lot more fun!
Finding my happy place
I’ve been smiling at Mum for quite a few weeks, but it took Dad a lot longer to get his first smile… Any ideas why?
Birthdays!
On Saturday mum, dad & Lachie had a birthday party for me and I had the best time ever! We went to Muston Park with some of our family and my play friends. The weather was perfect and we had super company! The food was yummy too…Dad didn’t even stop me went I went back for my third mini-croissant! AND I had a cool butterfly cake. Mum and Dad considered attempting to do a Dora cake but as they were making it on the morning of the party they decided on the safer option of a butterfly 🙂
To those who came to my party – THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU – I had a blast!
Uncle Andrew
Last week I got to meet Uncle Andrew.
He promised to teach me all things blokey (like beer drinking and rugby) when the time is right 🙂
I’m Two!
I’m two now and oh-so-clever!
- I can run, skip, jump but not hop. Can I walk you ask? What’s that?
- I like riding in the stroller while we go for long walks.
- I’ve started big girl swimming lessons where I don’t need a parent in the water with me. I am learning to jump in the water and swim to the side. Mum is very excited about this as my enthusiasm for the water is a concern for her.
- I love playing with other kids and mum and dad think I am an energetic bundle of fun.
- I love climbing and going to the park. Mum and I started Gymbaroo this week. I love it because it involves lots of climbing and lots of songs. Perfect combination for fun 🙂
- My favourite foods are cheese and chicken of all kinds and my favourite drink (when I am allowed to have it) is Ice Tea. I love corn on the cob too!
- I love colouring in and puzzles.
- I’ve been learning my colours of late.
- I am good at putting three and four lots of words together.
- My manners are beautiful and I still know the magic of the word “please?” and an innocent smile.
Two months in…
…and I’m a happy little champion 🙂
- I have pretty much picked my routine of choice. I generally feed at 7pm, midnight, 3am, 6am, 9am, 1pm, 5pm. The day after my two month birthday I dropped my midnight feed – YAY for mum!
- I always manage to have fluff in the corner between my thumb and first finger.
- I am very smily and love to chuckle.
- I can coo-chat along with the best of them.
- I love sitting in the bouncer and watching my big sister run around, but I do find it tiring.
- I’m very long and pretty much out of the three zeros now. Mum would be happier if a little more of the weight I am putting on, went to my tum.
- I LOVE cuddles and skin-to-skin contact.
- My favourite foods are milk, milk and milk.
Thanks Anne
Mum and I went to see our obstetrician today, Anne MacGibbon. She’s the one who helped Eli and I enter this world safely. She is the first face in the entire world that I saw 🙂
Thanks Anne for doing a wonderful job taking care of mum and I 🙂
Four day weekends…I’ve got the stamina!
We get a really long weekend this weekend – four days with everyone at home!
On Friday, (down from Muswellbrook) my friend Luke Austin came over to play. That was lots of fun.
On Saturday we went for yum-cha (otherwise known as dim-sum or yum-mo!) with Nanny and Grandfarmer. Unfortunately Lachie is too small to eat any and so we all had to eat his share.
Nanny and Grandfarmer went to the show on Friday where they were “big stars”. They were on channel 7 news talking about the Easter Show. I was so lucky because they even made time in their seafood-eating-star-schedule to bring me home a showbag. (If you are not quite sure what all of this is about – ask them!)
Then yesterday was Easter and the Easter bunny came and saw us. We started the day with a yummy breakfast feast. There are some piccies below including one of me being silly with the yoghurt at the end of breakky.
Then we went to the park for a picnic lunch, a play on the play equipment and to see the ducks. In the afternoon Grandpa came over and we went to the POOOOOOL!
Today we’re off for a picnic in the park to see some friends who are down from Bris-Vegas 🙂
It’s been a great weekend and I know mum & dad are exhausted! but I’ve got the stamina to keep up this pace 🙂
Wallamble 