Ellie in the grass

My neighbour has a nice camera and likes to dabble in photoshop. She was in the backyard one day and the grass was crazy long so we plunked Ellie in it for a few pictures.

My neighbour isn't a professional, but and I find the photos are usually heavily edited, but that's okay. 

Here she is...

Baby bubbles

Hope you're having a fun weekend. I stayed out way to late with good friends last night already. But we hit up the downtown market, Wren went to the neighbour girl's birthday party, and tomorrow we have a picnic to go to! 

Hope you have a good one, here's a hilarious picture of Ellie in the tub...

A pattern is forming

What a day. Boring as heck.

The girls were up at 5:40am. 

I popped them in the stroller after Ellie's very short morning nap and we went for a run.

Then to the playground.

It started to sprinkle rain while she played with a neighbourhood friend. Then it poured.

I ran pushing them all the way home. 

Ellie had a second very short nap. 

Now we're doing nothing but bumming around.

I just can't be bothered to do anything at all but let them play while I blog. 

I took pictures of them playing. 

 Ellie was sad about something, and when she's sad, she folds in half and puts her head down and cries.

Wren took this picture of her after much begging...

As I write this post, I can hear Wren in the bathroom calling to me to wipe her butt but I'm just ignoring her for a minute because I know she won't get up until I come. She'll just.keep.calling.

Ellie is walking across the living room towards me. She's getting really good at it.

The theme or pattern of the week is Ellie climbing on everything. Here is a perfect series of pictures showing how she gets onto the coffee table...

"Oh hey Mom, just walking across the table, see?"

"Oh hey Mom, just sitting on my dragon and probably going to stand up soon, see?"

Ellie's actual words- "Bucka bucka buckem! Mamamama..Bababa...Ga ga gack gack".

Honestly, kid.

Small Climber

Babies that can climb things is not a new concept to anyone, but it's new for me. Wren didn't have the upper body strength or agility to climb, but Ellie is crazy. 

I know I just posted about this same topic, but today I snapped another shot or two of her in the bathroom. 

She was silent as I looked around for her, wondering where she crawled off to. 

There she was, standing on the stool in the bathroom. So sneaky!

My usual response (which is silly and obviously I say out loud only for myself), is 

"Ellie! Come on!!" as I pull her down. 

Wren's response to finding Ellie clambering up something is "Ellie you are a Stinker Fart!"

Oh Wren.

Escape Artists

A baby that can climb is new for us. Wren never had the agility to pull herself up onto any surface in the house. 

Ellie, on the other hand, is our little monkey baby.

We find her on top of the toilet (cover down, usually..), on top of the coffee table, standing on her little dragon push thing, or like in this photo- trying to climb over the baby gate!

Luckily Wren is very helpful and yells, "MOM!!!" when she sees Ellie getting up onto something she shouldn't be.

And Happy Father's Day tomorrow! We have plans to go see the new Superman movie, Man of Steel. Kenton is so excited, he's been watching trailers all week. 

Have a good one!