water, swings and animal fun!

There has been some killer hot days here in Melbourne lately...As Lyn says it's as if Queensland and Melbourne have swapped weather. Difference is, in Melbourne if you stay out in the 30+ weather you are sure to fry, and its definitely not good for poor pale little Ella. I love her milky white skin, and I would love it to stay that way...but despite this, little Ella loves the outdoors, and is at her happiest out there. So this week, in the cooler part of the day, I took her out in the backyard and she had a splash in her new pool shell she got for Christmas. She loved it...and loved stretch coming over to visit her while she was in there...so much so, she grabbed him and pulled his snout so hard I was sure he would protest. But he was a good boy and took the beating. But I think he was glad when I took her out and put her up a little higher out of reach...in her new swing...in the photo you can see her watching stretch...every where he went so did her eyes.

Today we went to the raspberry festival in Kingslake..we thought it would be a quiet day out for the Kerr family, but when we arrived Jai and I could not believe the amount of people that were there...Ella got to play with the animals again, this time a little more interested than the last time. But we didn't end up having the raspberry ice cream we had hoped for, instead we opted for the "frozen" raspberry's to save ourselves waiting in the dreaded queue..."we can always make a raspberry smoothie at home" was my disappointed reply when we saw how many people were there.
Overall was a good day...although next time I think we might get there a little earlier to avoid the queues!

New Year...New achievements!

Happy New year to you all!!! The Kerr Family hopes that you all had a safe and fun one at that!

Well it is now 2007, a new year which has meant a Ella has decided it is time for some more new advances and achievements!

She now has 5 teeth, with number 5 just cut through and six almost there. Means that she can eat so many more things now...she just looooves chomping on a bit of meat , or a bit of bread..and manages to chew little pieces off now.
She has tried lots of different things, and is always happy to try them too...if she doesn't like it, she turns her nose up and pushes me away....sometimes I have to watch the food doesn't end up on me!

She has just officially (on Friday 5/1/06), after many, many weeks of trying so hard just started crawling!
It is an unusual type of crawl....she does get on all fours, as the photo shows, but then drags one foot and stands on the other. Whatever works I guess, she does manage to get pretty far with that technique. But isn't too fast yet, so there is not too much chasing....YET!

This morning she surprised me, I found her "sitting up" in her bed. Of course she sleeps on her back and isn't one for rolling, so I was very surprised to see her sitting when I came in the room...this leads me to explaining how she can do it.
For ages when she has attempted to crawl, if she has fallen on her tummy, that was it for her. She would whinge and carry on, until one of us rescued her. But in the last few days, she discovered if she pushed her bum up she would be able to get into crawl position and then sit back. All very clever I think. A little hard to explain, but hopefully you get the idea. Main thing is...she is now crawling!

So many new things and the year as only begun....I look forward to many more advancements this year, including turning one! Very exciting indeed!