'Hi'

Juliette has started to say more words. Her favourite word, is 'hi'. She says it over and over until she gets a response. It is funny because Ella's favourite word was also 'hi' when she was Juju's age.

Pooltime

On the warmer days, Ella loved swimming. She had a great time getting tossed up in the air by Dadda. When the water was a little cooler, she didn't want anything to do with it.

Juliette and the marmot...

There is a marmot that lives at Grandpa's house. He loves to sit outside the window and watch tv. Ella and Juliette were fascinated by him and he is quite tame and seemed interested in them as well.

Kelowna Visit #2

We had another nice trip to Kelowna. This time our friends Dan, Laura and Natalie joined us for a few days. The weather was warmer and we spent lots of time in the pool.

Waking Ella

Ella slept so well while we were camping that we had to wake her up from her nap (must have been all that fresh air)! Here is a video of Juliette waking Ella up. Juju's nickname has evolved from Juliette to Juju to Juju pants to 'the pants'. In this video Ella addresses Juju by saying "the pants". To end the video, Ella and Juju play "the hand game". The hand game is a game that the girls usually play with Hudson when he is waking up from his nap. It consists of touching each other's hands through the mesh in the pack-n-play. Who knew this could be such a good time?

Golden Ears Camping

A few days ago, we went on our first camping trip with our girls. We had such a great time and Ella and Juju were so excited about the whole experience. They even slept well, which we were unsure about. We bought a 3-room tent. We slept in the middle and we set up a pack-n-play in each one of the rooms. It was very funny to hear the things Ella says when she first wakes up in the morning. The first morning she said "fingernails, I have fingernails... this is a tent. I'm in a tent". The second morning she sang a worship song "Yahweh, Holy is Your name".

Ella helping Dadda put the tent poles together.

Juju had a great time crawling around inside the tent

We told Ella that she was not allowed to touch the campstove on the picnic table. Being the problem-solver that she is, she put on some oven mitts and said "I can touch the stove with these mitts on." Sorry Ella, you're 2 and are not allowed to touch the stove.

We hiked over to Alouette Lake for a picnic and swim.

Dadda taught Ella how to skip rocks.

...and the highlight for Momma was roasting smores around the campfire. Actually, I think this was the highlight for Juju too- she loved the Graham crackers. Ella was not a fan of the smores, but she loved the campfire experience.

A trip to the zoo...

Last Tuesday, we went to the Vancouver Zoo with Grandpa Rob. We had a great time.

The highlight of the day for us adults was the cheetah, who lied down right near us and started to purr. What a beautiful animal!

The highlight of the day for Ella? ...walking along the train tracks.

Juju loves reading with Dadda.

Hudson and Ella are doing some silent reading while Juju takes her morning nap.

Since Ella was having trouble taking turns on the car, she decided to see if she and Juju could both fit on at the same time.

Kelowna Pictures

Uncle Marzi took some great pictures while we were up in Kelowna. Thank you!

Ella, Momma, Dadda, Juju, Auntie Jaynie, Uncle Marzi, and Grandpa- all in the same picture!

I can stand... with no hands!

Juliette has mastered the skill of standing without holding onto anything. She started doing this when we were in Kelowna.

Ella's First Haircut!

The time came that Ella finally needed a haircut! Auntie Jaynie cut Ella's bangs while we were in Kelowna. Ella was very serious about the whole process.