Grace and Eli really enjoy their baths together. Whether it is spraying each other with water bottles, getting a wash from your big sis, kicking and splashing, screaming like crazy people, bathing dolls, playing with mermaids, painting with bath paints, or just pouring water, there always seems to be fun to be had when bathing together.

Getting a wash from my big sis

Grace was at home today, mainly as a precaution, but it did give her and Eli some time to play, which they didn’t really get over the weekend. They were having a lot of fun together playing some games, and Eli was loving the dominoes which he figured out pretty well.

It’s been a fun Valentines weekend, with the whole Drennan family being stuck down with a tummy bug. Eli has been on the mend, but Grace, Donné and I took some strain last night and today. Grace and I seem to be mostly better, Donné is still struggling, and Eli is bouncing off the walls looking for someone to play with him. Far too much cleaning up on a weekend like this.

Eli, a few days ago when he was at his worst (he led the pack). I think that is how most of us felt going into today

With summer having temporarily abandoned us, it was long sleeves and puzzle building this morning.

Grace has been getting very interested in exercise. Part of it is the sports and exercise they are doing at school, and part is because she has been seeing us exercise at home a bit. She really wanted to do a bit of her own exercise at home, so we set her up with some steps…

Obviously Eli had to join in at some point too….

Grace and Eli helped Sam out washing the car today.

Just a couple of months ago we were worried about Eli’s speech, but this year he has had a sensitive period for speech and has developed so amazingly. Two months ago he was hardly putting together two words in a sentence, and now he has plenty of two word sentences and lots of 3 word ones too. The sounds he is able to make has grown so quickly, and there are just a few sounds that he is substituting, most notably he uses a “d” for a “c”.

A little chat about the electricity and saying “hadedah”

Eli has never been interested in eating grapes. If you offer them to him, he doesn’t even try.

Donné offered Eli some grapes today, and as expected he was not interested, so Grace took it upon herself to try and get Eli to eat a grape. She says to him, “Eli, just try a one grape.” Nope, not interested. Then she says, “Eli, you’ll like it, there is juice in grapes.”

Ah, that did the trick and he ate some grapes.

Grace says to Donné, “See mommy, I told him there was juice in them and he ate one!” but Donné is thinking that he just decided to try one, and it didn’t have anything to do with Grace’s persuasion methods.

Later Donné offered Eli a grape again, and he says, “Juice inside.” Well mommy, I think Grace was right and it was her juicy persuasion that managed to sway him.

Grace has played the “Who wants some ice cream?” game for quite a while now. She sits on the jungle gym and the bar becomes her window for selling her imaginary ice cream specials. Now she has a helper for her shop….

Eli decided to study the load shedding schedule to see when next it would be time for, “‘tricity off,” (as he says).