Los 3 Amigos

2 out of 3 looking
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

It was Emma's birthday on Saturday so all the Rickards came to stay. Not that staying with us was her birthday treat but it meant that we could mind Clare in our house while Emma and Jamie had a night out. Clare is pretty easy to mind. She's interested in all our toys. She can sit up now and she can stretch pretty far to get to the toy she wants - even if that is the toy I'm playing with. I tried to tell her that etch a sketch isn't for 7 month olds. It's ok though. We have kept one box of our baby toys on the toy shelves so we can all play with those when she's there.

Clare ate her dinner before Emma and Jamie left. She eats loads - for a little person. It's just as well we didn't put my high chair in the attic when I was finished using it because it's handy for Clare and she was able to watch us all eat our dinner too. Then we introduced her to some Super Why. I don't think she had seen it before. I had to sit on my potty for that bit so I let Ella mind Clare. She doesn't know the songs, catchphrases and letters yet to join in but we'll teach her.

She was very good for Mammy and went to sleep before our bedtime. She must have been up a little bit early because Emma and Clare were already in the sitting room when I came down to use my potty the next morning. Despite having 3 pottys in the house, I only like to use the ducky one and Mammy doesn't like me to be upstairs once she has taken my nappy off in the morning so we've been getting up quite early at weekends now.

We actually had a sunny day yesterday. So Daddy took the sun chairs out of the shed. They were looking a bit worse for wear so Ella helped him to sand them while I was busy having my nap. When I woke up it was time to go for a drive in the car. We got ice lollies like the ones we had in Jill and Mark's house. And we went to see a waterfall. Only before we got near the waterfall, we had to spend a lot of time in the playground where there are all sorts of things to climb on. I stuck mostly to the swings and the roundabout and the sand.

Ella was able to go climbing on much bigger climbing frames but every time I tried to climb up onto a platform, Mammy lifted me down before I got to the top and was out of her reach. We had our bikes with us so we were able to cycle to the waterfall and then on the way back we stopped at an even bigger rope climbing frame. Ella climbed quite high, Daddy went all the way to the top, I stayed near the bottom and Mammy didn't seem interested in climbing at all.