Little monkey

Today Elliot found she could clime over her car seat onto the parcel shelf of the car, luckly the pushchair was in the boot as our parcel shelf is not solid. She thought it was wonderful and i just couldnt resist a photo :) shes doing something new every day its an amazing time :)

Another Santa Visit

After the visit to see Santa at Raby we thought we'd take Elliot to see him again but this time at the Metro Centre, he's a busy man this year, he seems to be everywhere we go! We think she's starting to understand now that the jolly old soul gives her nice toys!

Raby Castle Riding Santa's Sleigh

After visiting Santa, he let us sit in his sleigh, he had to tie it down though, otherwise we might have floated away!

Raby Castle Santa's Grotto

Elliot was a little shy of Santa but Lady protected her whilst she plotted to grab the pressie!

Raby Castle Before Santa

Before seeing Santa Elliot was really looking forwards to meeting the jolly red man, and celebrated with lots of smiles and running around the lovely grounds.

Christmas Angel

Mummy and Daddy try to get a good photo for the greeting cards but Elliot tries to explain that the Christmas outfit is supposed to wait until Christmas day!

Christmas Tree time!

We put the Christmas tree up early this year, Daddy normally prefers to put it up late, but is feeling the Christmas cheer early. Elliot loved helping Mummy to decorate the tree this year, we think the beads were the biggest hit... although she definitely loves removing the fancy decorations from the tree too!

Peekaboo and Park

Elliot loves playing peekaboo and was hiding behine mummys dressing gown before peeking out like above. She doesn't yet say boo, or peekaboo, but hopefully now her language is picking up she will soon.

Mummy took her to the park and despite Elliot loving it, mummy fell and hurt herself!

Autumn in Cheshire

A couple of pictures from our time in cheshire she loved walking in Delamere, she especially loved the puddles and colourful leaves. Little dear needed a big sleep when we got back to the house though!

Swimtime

Daddy took Elliot swimming today and Mummy was there to take photo's, she was quite well behaved today, and didn't make much of a fuss. She loves "Monkey, Monkeying" around the pool side.

Bonfire Night

Fireworks at Ashbrooke, Elliot and Mummy are besotted with the sparkly explosions. "Oooooh sparkly!"

Retro Elliot

Living in the past

Daddy's birthday

Went to frankie and bennies for birthday dinner, little one behaved for a while but didn't like waiting for her pasta!

Building blocks

Warning engineer at work

Pigtails

Finally her hair is long enough to in into pigtails. She looks really cheeky but very cute!

Discovery museum

Went to the discovery museum in newcastle on saturday last week and elliot loved the Tyne river model

Saltwell park

Elliot loves it!

Stripping marvelous

I think the picture tells the story!

It's not a box

It's a spaceship

Slides are fun

13 months old and climbing up slides unaided the little tike!

Slide

Did mummy push her? You decide!

The joy of boxes.

We visited some friends last weekend and elliot was introduced to the delights of boxes.

Stan and Jo

In a box!

Push bike fun!

This is elliot's first trike, it was a first birthday gift from grandpa Tony and if you can't tell she absolutely adores it!

Peek a boo!

This is now what our monthly shopping trip looks like. Can u spot the babe :)at least she finds it funny :)

Just chillin

Elliot was bought this ball pool by aunty katie 4 her birthday. caught her having a fab time just chillin, and rolling around :) what u cant see is her laughing she thinks its fab. :)

Angel festival

Elliot explains the correct procedure for putting up the magnetic display boards which coincidentaly fell down when she toddled past!

Steps!

And lots of them, all she does at the moment is wall backwards and forwards, we're amazed at how quickly her little steps changed from one or two into walking backwards and forwards across the rooms or corridor. Fab!

Chester zoo

Somehow i didn't get a picture of elliot looking at any of the animals so instead here's one of her pointing at something mummy was also staring at!

Anniversary!

Today was our third anniversary so i thought i'd put a picture of Billie on here today.

Pooped!

Spent today shopping in the trafford centre, not sure if little one loved it, but she seemed to enjoy herself. She's now fast asleep for a while

She's farmer...

Tad she has a cow e i e i o!

I'm telling mummy!

Daddy upset her today so she stole my mobile to phone mummy and tittle tattle on me!

Future horse trainer?

Not content with riding Chester, Elliot has taken up her new hobby of pushing him around. Move over horse whisperers this is how you make horses do what you want!

Seaside

Well it speaks for itself

At the beach

Finaly some fab weather. So i snuck home early from work and we took her 2 play on the beach which she loved no suprise really :) but best part 4 her was watching a toddler running in and out with the water as the tide was coming in :) hence the photo :)

When not to use a flash

Completely whited her pretty little face out! Silly flash. Daddy finally got his phone back from repair last night. I truly miss the orange days of replacement the next day. 3 suck sometimes

Dog fascination.

There was a time when the only thing that interested elliot was our smiling faces and cameras would elicit a smile, but now she has decided that all should be ignored in favour of a kiss from the dog. Even when we took her out for a walk with grandma it was the dog that got all of her attention. Here's a piccy from outside subway which demonstrates my meaning! :)

Bookworm

Trying to find mummys page.

Tears and laughter

Little one was feeling so independant on sunday that she wanted to feed herself the custard. Sadly she'd already eaten it so the tears were flowing while mean daddy found it funny. :)

Feeding time at the zoo

And she's behaving well. Note the very sticky hands, she adores dairylea triangles.

Improved reading

We know she really doesn't understand but look how she turns the pages and scans the pictures. Fab!

Future Sportswoman

Possibly? She's getting really good at this game now. Her coordination has improved so much! She was even feeding herself with a fork and spoon last night

Stan's Birthday

I didn't manage to get a decent photo of them both so here's one of her before messy play

New shoes

Elliot's first pair of real shoes. Her feet are size 3.5G. Clarks made a real occasion of it by takins a photo and putting it in a little card, which saved us doing it :). Now we're on a long road of buying new shoes every two months or less! Still not a year old and she already has a shoe fetish!

Spencers revenge

Spencer has final realised he is bigger than elliot and how 2 get his own back when she wont leave him alone :)

Parklife

We went to see the ducks in the park on Thursday, sadly i forgot the bread :(

Rocking horse

Finally managed to get a picture of her on her horse chester, she even managed to rock it slightly :)

Bubbles

Elliot plays catch the bubbles

Shared reading

Elliot's cousins are moving down to london next week so we went to visit before they go. After some scrapping over dummies and toys they eventually agreed sharing was a good idea. :)

Cousin cuddles

Visiting family and cousin cameron shows elliot and auntie billie how you cuddle properly

Comparison pic

See last entry

Does she look like her dad?

I'm starting to question whether she actualy shares my facial features to the extent people claim. She is a mini me mannerisms wise but i dont see the facial match. I think she's much more like her mum. :)

The lion sleeps

Just been to her swimming lesson and now it's time for a rest before the family visiting begins

Christening

We got the little one christened this morning on Easter Sunday.
Here are some pictures of us and her dress!
Thanks to everyone who came.