Ella the Caveman!

So the neighbours just came round to invite us to join in the birthday cake celebrations at the weekend... their daughter is turning 2....
and as they leave I say "say bye bye Ella"... she just waves and starts babbling away in her word-less way, and Lily (the girl next door) says "bye bye ella! look mama, I can see ellas tummy button! bye bye ella see you soon on my birthday. bye bye ella"...
yes i feel like my daughter is a undeveloped sort of... caveman. She just babbles... *sigh*

Little Prince Charming

Thanks for the gift Iris... TOO CUTE! (yes this was sooo last week, but thats what u get for not updating i guess!)

Our New Baby Boy

Meet Harley...

We got him last night :)

Oops Ive been slacking again!

So I havent posted for a while, but Ive not been at the computer much... Sorry! Can I just add

CONGRATULATIONS SARAH oh your new arrival Samuel. Hes just adorable!

Apple

We'd been up 10 mins this morning and Ella says "apple" well... "aaaaa bul"

IM SO HAPPY WE'RE GETTING THERE I THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER FOR HER TO SPEAK!

Owl

Ellas new word of the morning is Owl. I got a cracking video of her on my phone saying all the words she knows!

Ellas new words

And how about a real update!

Ella is starting to actually say words now. Today she stunned me saying "Juice" and doing the sign for juice, and also the sign for drink. She has got this off the TV programme called Something Special, which is a guy called Justin, doing signing.

She also said "hot hot hot!" and pointed at the oven yesterday! We say the oven is HOT! so she doesnt touch, but never hot hot hot... then it dawned on us... in big cook little cook, if something is going in the oven big cook ben says "Get your grown up helper to do this for you because remember, the oven is HOT HOT HOT!"

We also learnt what SCISSORS are, and Ella said scissors. I also asked her if she could say shoes, and she went out and got every pair of shoes in the house, gathered them up together in a pile and exclaimed "SHOOOOOOOOE"

she says "mmmm" when she points at her mouth. She knows it starts with an M but doesnt say the outh bit! and she says head... "eah"

if she picks something up thats gross, or goes to touch the bin, or eats something she doesnt like (eg. banana skin) we've always said "yuck dirty!" and shes just said "yuck!" now she says "yuck ditty"

So shes doing great! Im so proud of her.

Oh and at last, after months of trying to teach her the elephant action and sound, she does it!!! she only ever laughed hysterically before! Now she does it and expects us to laugh. ha.

Todays show...

Doodle Do. I actually like this show. Its a new one, and when it started, me and Chris were like "THIS IS CRAP!" but we watched it once or twice and now actually turn it on to watch on our own! Its three hands called Dib Dab, Scribble and Stick. They live in Chris' attick. Chris is Welsh and his accent in mezmorising. Stick is hilarious. It seems kind of unrehearsed. One of the hands will say something and Chris will laugh because he wasnt expecting it. And people accidently overlap when theyre speaking. They do arts and crafts and act out a story at the end. DOH I cant find a pic! Its good anyway...

"Doodle Do, Doodle Do,
Dib Dab, Scribble, Stick and you
We'll show you, what to do
So that you can doodle do...
DOOOOODLEEEEEEE
Doodle Do is what we do
You can doodle, do it to
Doodle Do, Doodle Do
Everyone can Doodle Do."

And at the end they all have a goodbye line and they sometimes turn it into whatever theme they've done.

See ya later alligator
See you soon over the moon
Bye Bye got to fly!

Its great!