Happy Birthday to Ellie

Ellie turned seven on Tuesday. Where has the time gone? It seems like only a little while ago that she was a screaming, screaming baby.... always furious about something, mostly about being tired. She would never settle to sleep and screamed herself to sleep every time until she found her thumb when she was four months old. That was bliss.

Now, it is a giant pain in the neck, and I shout 'THUMB!' about two hundred times a day to remind her to pull it out. I don't even have to see her, I just shout it if I haven't said it in the last five minutes, and about once a day she says 'It's not in my mouth!' and she's all indignant and surprised that I could possibly suspect that it might be. Ha. Hopefully by next year we will have this habit beaten!

She got roller skates from Nana which have been a big hit. She has been out on them every day, even if she is not likely to win any speed competitions any time soon. She is doing well by managing to stay upright at this point!

She has been begging for paints for a while now. The little paint packs that you get with colouring books never last, and so I bit the bullet and bought her some actual paints. They came with brushes and a little palette to mix the colours with. A few days before her birthday she announced that she was going to need a beret as well, as all artists wear berets. She was very clear on this point.

She had a great day!