Elliot Pascoe’s Blog

School holidays this week so Jungle Gym was chockers. One great thing about their setup is that there is so much stuff to play on that you can keep going back every few months. Each visit there will be something new and exciting to try. One thing for sure, Elliot comes home exhausted.

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As you can see, Elliot has benefited from our trips to IKEA and the local 2nd hand toy shop.

We are on holidays at home this week. Part of the plan is to eat out as much as possible. Elliot now knows that as we walk towards a cafe, he can ask for a coffee. So he dutifully joins us as we have our morning coffee and has his own babycino.

What to do when Pappa is having his morning coffee, except ask for his own.

Time to update the blog with some recent happenings.

Elliot turns 2 tomorrow. Wow, feels like it was 5 years ago he joined our lives. He is now so much a part of our lives we couldn’t imagine life without him.

Julia made awesome cupcakes with frosted icing. They were a real hit with Elliot and his cousins.

Now that he is asleep and the dishes are done, we can relax and reflect on the last 2 years. What a huge blessing to be given a little life to look after. Families are a great invention. Well done God.

We are nearing the end of the first term of Elliot’s swimming lessons. The lessons are fun and games disguised as learning. Elliot can now hang on the side of the pool and scramble himself out. It wouldn’t be enough to stop him getting into trouble as toddlers have absolutely no water sense. At least he is getting used to going under the water and hopefully on the path to learning how to swim. Here each `aqua treasure’ runs across the mat and jumps off the end. Lots of praise and squeals, great stuff.

Today was the HBF Toddle for Telethon. Hundreds of families went to Burswood Park to a 2km toddle. HBF really gets behind the event - and good on them for promoting exercise. The HBF doctor told us that an important exercise was with our thumb - to turn off our TVs. Dorothy the Dinosaur was there as well as some other strangely dressed dudes on stage. All a bit old for our toddler. For those into freebies there was free bananas, free sunscreen, balloons and even pots of bubbles for all. A great morning. Thanks HBF !

The shot of on the left is just over a year ago - the 10th of March 2006.

We keep forgetting that Elliot isn’t a baby anymore. The words are slowly but surely developing. You still need a one of us to translate for you, but more and more words are clear enough for strangers.