Ella at a year

I've been so busy with Will and Ella and work its been too long since I blogged.

Ella is 13 months now, and still a terrible sleeper.  An angel in the day and the opposite at night.

She is still very funny, and loves to play with her brother.  She definitely seems to be more trouble than her brother ever was, forever getting into things and making a mess.

Ellas latest trick is to try to stand on the rocking horse without holding on.  She has also problem solved, using Thomas the Tank Ride On to get on to the sofa.

Ella was walking before 11 months, and loves climbing.

She is very cuddly, more so than Will.

The Words of Ella

Ella has been busy saying things over the last week and a half.  She started with :

• dada

and then moved on to :

• a burglar (strange, but true)

We have had constant raspberry blowing for about the last 3 months, way more extreme than Wills :-)

As with the words of Will I will periodically update this, so we don't forget any.

Update: 26 November 2013

At 13 months Ella is babbling away with gibberish most of the time, like she is trying to talk, it is very funny.

Ella's new words :

• nah (no)
• look
• there
• dog
• socks
• shoes

Update: 11 May 2014

For some four months Ella has been mixing things up with two or three word sentences including:

• sit down
• get down
• more
• there it is
• yoghurt
• circle

She also loves saying 'Hello there' to strangers in the supermarket.

Ella at 6 months old

Ella was six months old this week, on Tuesday.  I am in shock!  I was lucky enough to have some holiday recently (Centre Parcs, and for more than a long weekend this time), and spent a lot more time with her than usual which was lovely.  We took both Will and Ella (for the first time) swimming, they both loved it.  She is a very happy smiley little baby.

She is now sitting up and grabbing for everything.  Nicky has started her on solid food (in a very small way), and if she is as bad as Will was at sleeping, she is better with the solid food :-)

It is very easy to make Ella laugh, which amuses us all.  Mostly she laughs at her big brother who she is fascinated by.

Ella is four months old already

I can't believe it, our little girl is four months old.

She is smiling and giggling, very curious, and generally gets carried round looking at things with her big eyes (looking like a bush baby).

She turned out to be as bad a sleeper as Will, poor Nicky!

Some achievements:

• rolled at 7 days old
• smiled at 5 weeks
• started jabbering a lot at around 7-8 weeks

She loves people, there is nothing better to her than a load of attention, and lots of smiling faces trying to make her smile.

I will get round to putting some photo's up on Flickr soon!

Next I'm looking forward to when she can sit, which should keep her entertained at least for a little while :-)