Fashion tips for 2010!!

Thursday 17th December 2009

The week started off well with a morning at play group, which was lots of fun, but sadly the last one before the Christmas holidays. Then as mummy has not been feeling well, daddy was in charge for the weekend, so we went shopping and I got to go in the backpack carrier, which was loads of fun. Then Daddy and I headed off to football for the afternoon, Zoe kindly looked after me whilst daddy played some football, so I got to play with Ben on the sidelines which was lots of fun.

I have been busy opening my advent calendars this week and have made some magnetic photo holders (in the shape of a snowman and Santa Claus), I have also been painting with my Christmas coloured paint sticks (red, gold, green and silver). Another gift in my advent calendar was a coloured crayon especially for the bath - so I have lots of fun at bath time scribbling all over the bath, as you can see from the picture.

I have started taking a bit more interest in my appearance over the last few weeks. I love wearing mummies make-up - especially her foundation and lipstick (or quite often tongue and chin stick when I miss my lips!!) I keep wanting to wear my Leitrim top as well (thanks Shaun and Marie) and cried hysterically the other day when mummy had to put it in the washing machine (this also happens if I catch her trying to wash my Upsy-Daisy t-shirt as well!!) I have enclosed a picture of me in one of my outfits from this week - the Atlanta Braves cap of Daddy's was key to my style and I refused point blank to wear it forwards, so off we went to the shops with daddy's cap on, dummy in mouth, handbag in one hand and baby in the other. Needless to say by the time we returned from the shops mummy was carrying everything, as I had exchanged them all for a bottle of water and some animal biscuits!!!

Finally we rounded the week off with a play date at Daniel's and as ever food was on the agenda - we had yummy grapes and then some Mince Pies - yum, yum!!!

Well that is all for this week, speak to you all later

Love always

Eleanor xx

It's Christmas!!

Thursday 10th December 2009

Well the big news of the week is that Christmas has definitely arrived. We spent the weekend looking for Christmas decorations and then putting up our Christmas Tree which was lots of fun. I especially liked the stringy silver things - I had loads of fun putting them all over the tree, although daddy was not impressed with my artistic abilities and promptly redecorated the tree after!!

I went to playgroup on Friday and Monday, which was lots of fun. We did some fab angel hand painting - mine is now stuck to the fridge door and then I made a very glittery angel - I really enjoyed the glue and glitter, lots of fun. We also made it to swimming, but no coach Dave this week and we met up with Jo and the twins before they head back home to Perth for Christmas. No music this week as the term has finished. We also should have had Charlotte's birthday party but sadly it was cancelled due to illness, so we will celebrate that in the New Year.

Lots of people are starting to head home for Christmas, but most of the people we know from Europe are choosing to stay in the warmth rather than head home to the cold, so there should be a few of us here to celebrate Christmas in the sunshine with.

Mummy and I have also been practicing our baking skills this week and made some very yummy carrot, oat and mixed spice cookies - yum, yum!! I have enclosed a picture of me mixing all the ingredients together - with very little mess, I hasten to add!!

Well, adios for now, speak soon

Eleanor xx

Minding my pea's and coo's!

Thursday 3rd December 2009

Well as the title suggests my speech is improving rapidly and I have now learnt that saying pea's (please) with my head slightly tilted and a little smile, will just about get me anything I want. I say just about because sometimes mummy is a bit slow and cannot understand the rest of the sentence and just stands there looking vacant saying "Pea's what, mummy doesn't know" (at this point please feel free to imagine me shaking my head in utter disgust!!) Along with pea's, another word I am being encouraged to use is C00 (or thank you). I am not 100 per cent sure what I gain by saying this though, as I already have want I want, but it seems to make mummy and daddy happy. Other than that my favourite word is door! Which I say at every available opportunity and in a really long and drawn out manner!

We have had a quiet week this week again as it has been raining lots and limited our excursions! We had a long weekend as Friday was a bank holiday which was nice and we chilled out over the weekend, but other than that it was the usual round of music and swimming, but no playgroup this week. Finally today we had another play date with Charlotte and Daniel, which as ever was lots of fun!!

The big excitement of this week was advent calendars!! I have 3 and they are lots of fun. Grandma and Great-Grandma sent me yummy chocolate ones, which mummy has kindly offered to help me out with and then mummy and daddy bought me a felt one when we were in Sydney, which has different toys and treats in each day. I have included a picture of me opening one of my pockets. The other pictures are of me in my witch hat - I have a bit of a thing about wearing hats at the minute, regardless of whether they are seasonal or not!! The last one is of me eating my chicken noodle soup with my special child friendly chopsticks - in pink!!

Big Hugs

Eleanor xx