….then you face ends up looking like this….

I came into the bathroom after Grace and Eli had gone in to brush their teeth, expecting to brush Eli’s teeth, but it turns out that Grace had been busy.

We were off early yesterday morning, so we didn’t follow our usual slow Saturday morning routine, so this morning as a bit slower and I had a croissant out defrosting and rising. I usually make Grace a croissant on a Saturday, and one of her privileges is that she gets to watch some TV on a Saturday morning (TV is a no every other morning).

Grace looks at me getting the croissant ready and says, “You’ll make me feel like watching some TV, because it will feel like a Saturday.”

There you have it, all you need to make it Saturday is to make one croissant and watch some TV in the morning.

Eli made a wee in the potty today! He’s been getting interested in the toilet, so we’ve been introducing him to the potty a bit, and teaching him some signs, but we haven’t started anything in earnest yet. When we woke up this morning I put him on the potty, and he surprised me with a wee in the potty – which he was very chuffed about (and got lots of praise for). He also managed to get part of one in later in the day, so well done to Eli.

When we start more serious potty training I guess it will go something along the lines of Grace’s potty training (yay blog!).

Playing with mommy’s hair…a nice gentle head massage for you madam?

Eli loves copying Grace, and so if you jump, I’ll jump (or at least try)…

Squished up on the chair together, enjoying some books

We were very blessed to have a fun evening with our friends Stéfan and Lauren. Good food, great company, laughing and most importantly having our first siphon coffee experience. It was actually quite the show with Steéfan demonstrating the siphon coffee machine, and the rest of us watching intently (we really should have gotten a photo of this). Grace got Lauren to read bedtime stories to her, so she was happy too.

Grace’s swimming is now strong enough that I can go swimming with Eli and her, and not really have to worry about her at all. She swims around, dives down, jumps in and just has lots of fun while Eli and I practice rolling, floating and kicking. Grace is diving in really well, and can dive in from the side and fetch a toy from the bottom of the pool and then swim to the step quite comfortably. Eli also has a little dive into the pool, he stands at the edge ready to jump in and then instead of stepping/jumping in, he puts his head down and does a little head first tumble into the pool. It is exactly the right motion that they need to do and practice in swimming classes, but it was a surprise the first time he did it (which was fortunately in class).

Here is Grace diving in

Grace has been getting better and better at riding her bike and loves to go for a ride down the street, so that she can go around and around the cul-de-sac…

The game she likes to play is either for me to chase her around (although I must say that the way she rides when being chased does sometimes make me nervous), or for her to chase me around in circles. Exercise for both of us 🙂

Eli has been singing along to songs, just in a “la, la, la,” way, but still very sweet. Here’s a video of him singing along with Grace and Donné.