First Steps

This was Saturday the 11th March. We had all gone up to Auckland and spent a few days with friends that also have kids. (older kids, that already walk…) and it only took Ella a few days watching the older kids before she decided that she could do away with crawling, and that walking looked a much better option for getting around. So this is a morning spent at the park, practicing walking!!!
We also had a lot of fun at the wave pool, and got a lot of use out of the slide, eventually Ella was even going down a small slide on her own! (into very shallow water at the bottom of course, and could crawl away from the bottom of the slide.)
Over the course of the following few days, Ella has become very proficient at walking, and is even quicker at disappearing now than she was 2 weeks ago…

packing

dont forget to pack me dad!

Madelaine comes to visit

We have had a busy weekend, with our friends Mandy, Dean and daughter Madelaine visiting from the UK. Madelaine had a great time with 'Baby Ella', playing games with her and trying to get Ella to follow her around (shame Ella is not quite walking yet...).
Now they have moved on and continue their tour around the country catching up with family and friends, and we are off to to a conference in Auckland for a few days.
Going to spend a night in Taupo, (a treat for Ang's Birthday) and then stay with friends up in Auckland.
Might not get many posts over the next few days, as I don't know if I will have access to a computer.

Dancing Singing Puppies

I haven’t worked out how to link a bit of video to this blog yet, (must work that out one day) so for now you will just have to imagine these two puppies singing “I’ve got you babe” in cute little puppy voices. The little brown puppy doing the boy part, and the little white puppy doing the girl part. They sing along happily, nodding their heads to the music and even their little chins move in time to the words.
This came from a good friend of ours in Australia, Mahinder.
Anyway, Ella loves it, she is soooooo cute when she sits in front of it and bobs away to the music with the little puppies, giggling away to her self as the puppies nod their heads.

Diamonds on the soles of my shoes

Or is that Frogs??!!

“Look at my new shoes!” Thanks to Rose, Brian and Jeanie for these, they are cool!!!!!!!!!

(and a girl can never have too many pairs of shoes.)

unfinished unpacking

I thought we had finished unpacking, but what is this? another box of stuff?

Well Maybe

NO! it's unpacking itself, it's Ella's play house (Budget I know...) but Ella has the greatest time playing boo, hiding in her play house, and then bursting through the door, to say boo to Mum and Dad.

Modelling my new tee shirt

Thank you Alice for Ella's new tee shirt, she loves it, (pink is her favourite! Jo would be proud) and as you can see Ella is busy doing her new Hairy MacLary puzzle that grandma gave her, so far she is pretty good at taking all the dogs out of the puzzle, and it's a bit random when she get them back in the right slots, but she is getting better with some help from Dad.