Dress-Up

Dressing up continues to be a favourite activity around our house. Here is Juliette as 'Cinderella' and Ella as 'Snow White'.

Ella likes to dress herself in the morning and I've discovered that it is best to let her pick her clothes (as long as the outfit is reasonable for what we are doing that day). I was very impressed with her choice the other day (jeans, a pink shirt, and a brown sweater), the most normal outfit she has picked out in a long time. When we got downstairs she immediately added a hat and gold shoes to her ensemble.

One of Ella's favourite activities is putting letter magnets on the fridge. She can now identify the letters A and E. When she sees an E she'll ask 'is this "E"... is "E" for "Ella"?" We are only working on uppercase right now, lowercase is just too confusing... especially because the letter 'a' can look quite different depending on the font.

Funny Glasses

Juliette in her stylish shades.

The other day Hudson brought over some funny glasses. He doesn't like wearing them, but Ella and Juju thought they were funny to try on... just not for too long.

For Grandpa Clark...

Grandpa Clark and Ella like to play the piano together. He is teaching her how to sing a Ray Charles song. When Ella got home, she pulled out her little piano and sang the words her grandpa taught her.

Weekend in Kelowna

We spent this last weekend in Kelowna visiting Grandpa. The girls had a great time running around his house. Ella has always been a big fan of Grandpa, but this trip Juju showed that she is a big Grandpa fan as well. She would wake up in the morning saying "Gampa, Gampa". We also visited Megan and Jeff and their 3 month old son, baby Kai. We forgot to take pictures of our visit, so you'll just have to trust us when we say that he is so cute!

A day with Oren

We had a special guest at our house on Thursday, Oren Cool. He is the son of our friends Brian and Jess. Oren usually spends the day with another family on Thursdays, but their little girl was sick. He is very good natured and thought that our girls were quite funny.

God, Jesus, and Bananas

Ella really makes us laugh these days. Last week Ella and I were eating a banana and I was telling her that bananas are healthy for her heart. We have also been talking about letting Jesus into your heart. The other night I asked her 'who are you going to let into your heart?' Her answer was "God, and Jesus... and bananas".

Trick or Treating

The girls had lots of fun trick or treating last Monday. Juliette loved walking around in her chicken costume and Ella enjoyed knocking on the doors. She didn't quite have the timing down so she would knock on the door and yell 'trick or treat' before anybody actually came to the door. They also didn't understand when somebody would say 'pick two candies' and instead she would try to grab a whole handful. They were both very polite saying 'thank you' after they got their candy. The next morning when we woke up, Ella looked outside and said 'where are all the kids in costumes?'

Here are the girls eating the fruit snacks they received from one of our neighbours.

That's a lot of candy for 2 little girls! The next morning Ella also asked 'where's my candy, did Dadda eat it?' I guess she's onto us.