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!

This one's for you, Mum!

I doubt whether anyone else will get this, but I know Mum will ;)

Maya has several small toy bins on the bottom shelf of her bookshelves. They're receptacles for all the little bits and pieces - the finger puppets, plastic animals, card games etc. which would otherwise clutter up the house. She'd been playing with the contents of the bins this morning and they were scattered all over her floor.

I needed to go to the garage to put some laundry in and I asked Maya to put everything back in the bins while I was out there. When I came back in, she was sitting on the floor, picking up her toys one by one, shining a torch onto them and then putting them in the bins.

I asked her what she was doing and she said "I'm making sure my toys are OK before I put them away."

I guess there's more to genetics than you might at first think :D

Is there a hairdresser in the house?

In the spirit of practising for when she goes to school, here's what I came up with...



Oh dear.

What it's like having an older sister to bounce cows on your head...

The expression says it all ;)



More to come!