Little Things

It's the little things that make you smile. Our kitchen doesn't have a pantry instead has many big drawers. Anyway the bottom draw we have dedicated to Ella and put a heap of stuff - plastic boxes, tins, wooden bowls and in general unbreakable stuff. Well today Ella managed to climb into the drawer, sit down in it then continue to empty it making as much noise as possible in the process. I stood in the distance watching her enjoying herself :)

Meanwhile for Andy, his little smile occurred today at his office when he was unpacking his laptop from it's cover. He noticed a lump inside the computer cover and initially thought he had left his usb stick inside. On pulling out the mystery lump, he discovered it was the window handle from the lounge room window (we have winding out type windows and the handles are easily removed!)

Timbertops

Timbertops is an orienteering area about 20mins outside of Bungendore.  A really nice open fast spur-gully area, and hence a fun course.  While Andy was running around the longest course possible, Ella and I unofficially completed the blue course.  Here is a pictorial of Ella's day:

 Off we go..

 There it is 

 Nearly there

 This one was easy

 See it just goes in here

  Playing around with dad afterwards

 OK ready to go home now.

Hats, hats and more hats

A hat is anything you can put on your head right?   

 

  

A is for Armadillo

B is for bat and X is for xtra large mouse! We recently purchased some removable animal alphabet stickers for Ella's room from Decorating Heaven.  At least for the moment Ella remains reasonably still on the change table as she is fascinated by the animals around her.

 

A Visitor!

Our friend, Fish (aka Stewart Fishwick) arrived last night for a 2 week stint in Canberra - working and visiting all of his old haunts.  Ella did her best, at 2 am, to announce that she was in the house - probably just as Fish was drifting off to sleep after arriving from Perth late that evening.  I wasn't too impressed as this waking in the middle of the night business is becoming a little too often for my liking.  It's not helped when Andy is snoring away not even waking to her cries!

Anyway today, after overcoming her initial boy phobia, Ella warmed to Fish.  In the afternoon we all rode down to the markets for coffee meeting up with Stace, Jo, BA, Jase, Zoe and Abby.

The place to be...

After bumping into each other at the local mall, Mia and Ella decided to hang out together at the Banana in Pyjamas car ride, as you do when you are a toddler. 

Happy Birthday Grandpa

Grandpa (Hogg) celebrated his birthday yesterday.  It was a particularly special day as he has decided to start the retiring process (only working 4 days from now on until the next birthday, then 3 days and so on).  Joshua helped Nana bake a carrot cake, decorating it with sprinkles and jelly beans in the shape of a car. Together with Luca, Mia and Ella we all sang happy birthday and enjoyed afternoon tea.