Pretty please with a cherry on top!

"May I watch TV?"
"Did you say please?"
"Pleeeeeeeeease!"
"Pretty please with a cherry on top?"
"Cherries don't grow on TVs, you silly. Cherries grow on ice creams."

On getting old...

Maya and I were having a conversation about what 'old' and 'older' mean. I explained that the longer it is since you were born, the older you are.

Maya: "I don't want to get older"
Me: "Why not? What do you think happens when you get older?"
Maya: "I don't know - what does happen when you get older?"
Daddy interjects "You get wiser!"
Me: "That's right - you learn more and more things and it's fun to learn new things"

Maya: "I think I'll just learn one thing and then I won't get older"

Monster burgers weren't a huge hit

We had a whole Halloween weekend menu planned. Maya chose the food herself and was very excited to make and eat it all. Baked eyeballs... hot dog mummies... a black lagoon and more! Pictures of everything will follow :)

Tonight, we had monster burgers. Maya was messing around with hers and not really eating it. S asked her why she wasn't eating her food.

"I AM eating it. I'm just not very impressed with it."

Oh dear!

This child cracks me up!

We were getting lunch sorted and Maya started eating some of her little bunny crackers. I said "Hey! Don't start eating them yet, Missy!" and she replied "I was just holding them in my mouth because there wasn't enough room in my hands. I only have two hands."

Yesterday, I was in the middle of making dinner, Maya was sitting at the table drinking some milk through a straw.

Talking to it.

So I ask her why she's talking to a straw.

"Well, you see, some straws have wings and some straws don't. This one is growing its wings so it can be like its Mama."

"Okaaaaaay. But why are you talking to a straw?"

"I'm not talking to a straw. That's silly.

*phew*

"It's talking to me."

She's too clever for her own good :D

What a cutie!

Theme of the week: Bubbles!

Maya and I discovered the wonder of bubbles last week - bubble bombs with baking soda and vinegar (only 1 of the 3 actually exploded but never mind!), bubble art using food colouring in the bubble mixture and, of course, lots and lots of bubble blowing! We tried different mixtures and blowers and found that the very best bubbles come from a mix of 3 parts Johnson's baby shampoo to 1 part water with a bit of glycerin thrown in for good measure, blown through a paper cone. The bubbles were so strong that Maya could even catch and hold them, and they were absolutely huge!

Took Maya to the movies

Maya and I went to the movies today! We had originally thought of going to see "Where the Wild Things Are", but after A and I read the reviews, we realized it wasn't really appropriate for Maya yet. So we decided to go to "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs".

It went really well, although Maya did fall out in the parking lot and scrape her knee a little. We had popcorn and she was a good little girl, sharing her popcorn with me, whispering in hushed tones to not disturb others and in general being overall adorable. So much so that at some point during the movie, the lady next to her offered her some chocolate and whispered to me "I've never seen a little girl so well behaved" :) Maya does me proud, if I may say so myself.

At the end of the movie, Maya said to me "These were different wild things, daddy". Ooops. I guess we forgot to update her that we were going to a dfferent movie!

Slightly later than promised

But here nonetheless!

Games...

Maya was shaking the bars on Elise's baby gym and I asked her what she was doing (why do parents always ask questions to which they know the answer, anyway?).

"I'm playing a game"
"Oh, what's the game called?"
"It's called 'Pin The Tail'"
"It's not called 'Annoy Elise As Much As You Can", then?"
"No; that's a different game, but I have that one too. Maybe I'll play it tomorrow."

Theme of the week: Transport!

Quite a timely choice for our TOTW, being as how we bought a new car today!! Pictures of that to come tomorrow (hopefully...). We had a lot of fun this week - I hope that comes across in the pictures :)





Maya and Elise also loved opening their parcel :D

Welcome to a new feature!

I thought it would be nice to post a weekly 'round-up' of all the things we've enjoyed doing during the week. Nothing special, just a peek into our daily activities :)

This week: pressed flower pictures, jelly bean sorting and counting (and eating!) and sunflower seed harvesting...

I swear I didn't teach her this!

But still, never a truer word was spoken...

Conversation overhead while Maya was playing with a toy carriage and some small toy dogs.
"This is the Mummy doggie and she's going to drive because the Daddy doggie doesn't drive properly, so Mummy doggie needs to drive the car so it drives properly."

Ah, the wisdom of youth!

Elise

Hopscotch... and Elise

I just love the facial expressions as she throws her leg round in her take on hopping :D





Elise loves Lottie Ladybird - thank you, Granny!





She's giving us lots of big grins, and copying us when we poke our tongues out at her...









She doesn't much like tummy time, but she tolerates it for a few minutes if she's in a particularly good mood ;)

School update!

Maya is thoroughly enjoying school so far. They seem to have a very varied curriculum and she's doing lots of art, singing songs, playing in the playground, touching snails and generally having a fun time! I'll have to take some pictures of the things she's brought home so everyone can see what she's getting up to :)

In the meantime, here are a couple of other pictures which made me wonder how on Earth she managed to get so grown up all of a sudden! More of Elise to come later :)

My baby's growing up!

Today is Maya's first day at pre-school! She's been so excited about it :)

Here are some pics of her going - I'll come back and update to let you all know how she enjoyed it :)

We bought new clothes yesterday which she insisted on wearing, despite the fact that it's really not long sleeve weather yet. The ponytails came out much better, if I do say so myself!



In the car, on the way to school:



Posing by the school entrance!



Getting settled in:



And this was as I was leaving. Shouldn't she look at least a little sad to see me go??

Hats!

I wanted to get some updated pictures of Elise yesterday but she was a bit on the grumpy side. Maya was well and truly up for it, though, so we did some posing with hats. Maya is really good at modelling - she thoroughly enjoys having her pictures taken and came up with all her own poses. Here's what I made with them!

No cake for you!

"I'm not talking to you, Mummy" (after being reminded of one of the house rules)
*Stalks off to her bedroom*
"MUMMY!!!!! COME AND SEE ME NOT TALKING TO YOU!"
We'd made a cake earlier in the day, so I thought this was the perfect bribe...
"Little girls who don't talk to their Mummies don't get any cake."
"I am talking to you, Mummy! See - I was just joking!"

Ten minutes later I was on the phone to Michele...

"Mummy are you not talking to me?"
I pout my lips and shake my head
"Well, you're not a talky girl, are you? I guess there won't be any cake for you then!"

Water droplet macros

I really love these! I'm going to complete a series of six with a lemon and a kiwi (slices of) and then do some kind of montage for the kitchen.

Good fairy or naughty fairy?

You decide!

Bath Time!

Who doesn't love bath time?? Elise certainly does and Maya loves helping out. The trouble is, she wants to do too much and doesn't really understand why we can't let her. We do usually find things that she can do, though. Since these were taken, we've started putting Elise's tub into the big bath so that the two girls can have their baths together. Maya likes that even more!