big bed

What have I started.

Last night Ella wanted to take her baby doll to bed, and just for something different I suggested to her that she put baby doll to bed in the big bed in her room while she went to bed in her cot like normal.

Well 20mins later there was a screaming match going on because Ella wanted to be in the big bed with baby dolly… in order to put an end to the noise and get Ella off to sleep, she was promptly settled into the big bed (with a few pillows on the floor in case of the obvious roll out of bed that was likely to happen…)

10min later off to sleep no problem… 12 am no problem, 2am no problem, 3.30 awake and standing up in bed asking someone to hold her hand… (? Half asleep at this point and holding hands to cross the road was the big lesson at daycare today…) tucked in and back to sleep, 4.45am screaming, had fallen out the bottom of the bed onto the washing basket (obviously the only place where there were no pillows to land on…) took a bit to settle back in after this but still outright refused to be put back into the cot…

6am still asleep, 7am still asleep, 7.30am still asleep, come on Ella get up!!! She had to be woken up so she could have breakfast with Mummy before she went to work!

We will wait and see what happens tonight…

Update, has gone to bed in the big bed and only needed telling twice to go back to bed before going off to sleep for her daytime sleep...

Christmas

taking elephant for a walk early on boxing day (allowing everyone else to sleep in peace...)

Gosh, that chocolate was yummy, (thanks aunty Tania)

berries anyone?

driving Uncle John and Aunty Judiths new bus, Beep Beep

new years eve at the Farmers Market, (Uncle Narly behind the camera...)

See ya later homeboy, nice to have you around to play uncle Narly, see you again in April

dolphins on Christmas morning

same pod of dolphins that was responsible for the body slamming of some poor woman the next morning, only they weren't doing any aerobatics for us here, just some sedate swimming...

bike ride in the rain

marine Parade in the rain... the hot chocolate afterwards was well deserved!

Uncle Cole's Tree house

you cant get me up here uncle cole!

visit to the aquarium

yep, if you ever come across a shark that is bigger than you Ella, just poke it in the eye...

back on line!

had a bad month with updating the blog, for starters it has been the silly season which is a good excuse for not keeping up to date with the blog, and then there was the horror of a blank computer screen where there was once lots of non-backed up files and photos!!! thankfully i have managed to get it back up and running after 2-3 weeks of stress about taking it into the shop and getting it back with a blank hard-drive... turns out i didn't need to take it to the shop after all, i managed to get into the system and delete the broken bits and it seems to be running fine again for the time being.
back up photos is the job for tomorrow...
that will also give me a chance to update a few of the last months worth of photos onto the blog.