Yet More Snow!

I could not believe what was happening outside as I got out of bed this morning. I could hear cars struggling to get up the road and when I looked out the en-suite window, Sally was trying to make her way to work! I told her she was crazy and to drive carefully. 10 minutes or so later, she rang the doorbell after having abandoned her car near the end of the road. At least she tried.



After breakfast, I set Ellis up with his colours, which he really enjoyed.



I then did some more videos of the snow.







Ellis woke up at 4:15am for about an hour, and I think it was the heating's fault. So I turned it off, got myself a drink and went to the toilet for the 3rd time! What a horrible night's sleep. This also meant that Ellis eventually went back to sleep and thought this was his nap time. I waited until after lunch to put him down again and he slept for 1 hour 30 minutes.

While Ellis was asleep, I did a few things but I also felt I was missing out on playing in the snow. So don't ask me why but I did this.





Twinkling Stars was cancelled today due to the weather so Ellis was getting rather bored at home. That was until Sally, Anna and Nick turned up to keep us company. They bought cakes too!

The kids played and the adults had a chat until they went home. They were just pulling away in the car when Rob arrived.

After a quick cup of tea we all got wrapped up and went for a play outside. I had a small snowball fight with Rob which was great fun but for the most part we just walked around.







We had a bit more playtime in the warm before it was time to bath Ellis. The two cheeky monkeys seemed to have a lovely time together, and Ellis spent some time drawing on Daddy's face. I cleared up and had a nice shower.







After Ellis was in bed, Rob and I assumed the positions that we normally do. Rob on his laptop on the sofa and me on the computer blogging or watching rubbish.

I have done so much blogging over the last couple of days, 3 different websites in fact, that I definitely need a break. Don't worry if you don't hear from us for a while. I am sure we are fine and having loads of fun.

18 Months Old

For breakfast yesterday, I thought it would be nice to have something different so we had pancakes. Well at least I thought we would have pancakes. I polished mine off no problem. Ellis on the other hand wasn't that keen.

I just rolled some fruit up in it and then put some strawberry yogurt on top.





I tried just giving him little bits at a time but he spat them out. So I thought I would just mix it all together. Doesn't look all that appetising now.



Ellis didn't want it so I tried to show him the individual ingredients so that he could get an idea of what I was trying to feed him.



That didn't work either and he just spat the food out and pointed at the berries on the table! I eventually gave up and gave him 2 bits of Weetabix. I also gave him some warm milk which he loves at night time but didn't want it in the day, and certainly not in a cup!

"Ah well"

Woke up this morning feeling like I wanted to stay in bed. That was until I looked outside!



I let Ellis have a play with some snow and then we got wrapped up and went outside for the first time.





We had such a brilliant time. I took loads of photos, here are just a few, and a couple of videos.













We even built a snowman together. Ellis loved it!

















The snow was quite deep in places and Ellis dragged his feet rather than picked them up so he spent a lot of time falling over. He didn't mind and it was fun to watch and film.







It wasn't that cold and when we went in the house, I checked Ellis' hands and they were toasty.

Ellis was worn out and asked to go for a sleep. I put him up for his nap and he had an hour and a half. I did the first part of this blog entry.

After lunch I decided we should go swimming. It took me ages to get everything ready but the roads were clear and we arrived on time.

We had a lovely time in the pool but getting out was a different story. It was really cold and Ellis stood by me shivering and laughing. It was really cute, but I got him dried and dressed as quickly as possible.

We then went to my Mum's for dinner. We arrived early as again the roads were quite clear and spent lots of time playing around.

As the title would suggest, Ellis turned 18 months old today. I had him weighed yesterday and he is 2st 1lb (13.2kg). Will try and do his height tomorrow. The health visitor said he was a big boy but a healthy size.



While at Mum's I tried very hard to get some good pictures of Ellis. As you can see the results are varied and I have posted some bad ones too to show how many I have to take.

Bad photos.























Okay photos.













Photos I like.











I was getting so frustrated that Mum gave me a hand at one point.













It was all good fun.

We left a little later than normal and when we got home we checked on our snowman. He had melted a bit and fallen over! Ellis kept saying "oh oh!"

Quick bath and bed for little one and then I did this mammoth blog entry!