The Bell Family

After dinner, Laura decided to make a ‘boat’ in the lounge room. To start with, she found a few towels, some pillows and a couple of her favourite animal friends. Then dubbing herself ‘Captain Laura’, she set-about creating her boat. Laura invited Mummy to join her on a big adventure and with Captain Laura at the helm, the boat took off to Pirate-Princess-Fairy Land!

Captain Laura provided the commentary (…over about an hour of crazy adventure). Here are a few highlights:

* ‘Come-on Mum, let’s go exploring!’

* ‘Look, there are some puppies swimming in the water, we have to rescue them. I’ll get them! Come on puppies, you’re okay now. We’ll get you dry’.

* ‘Oh man, we’ve hit a whale! Quick, we’ve got to help it. Let’s make a swimming pool on our boat to put it in, so that we can look after it and make it better’.

* ‘Over there, it’s a crocodile. Ooh, it’s two, they’re Mummy and Baby crocodiles and they’re trying to get on our boat… what should we do? (Mummy: Do they need help or do they want to eat us?) Wait, I’ll talk to them. No, they want to eat the puppies and my lambie… Quick, let’s get out of here’.

* ‘Wow, it’s raining. What are we going to do? We don’t have a roof on our boat! (Mummy: I wonder if we can make one?) No, we need umbrella’s! Look, our boat’s getting water in it, quick, we have to do something… (Mummy: What should we do?) Quick, there’s a bucket, let’s scoop it out!’

* ‘Oh, look out! The sharks are getting in out boat… let’s use this (rope) as a fishing line to catch them and throw them back in the ocean, ah, got them!’

* ‘Let’s look through the telescope. (Then finding a toilet paper roll) look over there, it’s land, that must be Pirate-Princess-Fairy Land. I wonder if the fairies will be able to help our whale?’

Here’s a little piccie of Captain Laura looking through the telescope whilst on her boat…

Tune in next month for another adventure of… Captain Laura!!!

Cheers,
Chrissy and Laura

Hi Everyone!

Just a few facts and funnies for you all…
• Laura – After an allergy to some sunscreen… “I’ve got a nose like Rudolph the red nose reindeer”!!!

• Laura on Caterpillars – “It’s hairy, it’s got lots of legs and it crawls like Katie” (hehehe)!

• Laura on Christmas Night – Laura: “Let’s see some more lights”! Dad: “Look Laura, there’s some”. Laura: “Sorry… I must have missed it, but that’s
ok, we can drive to see some more”!!!

• Girls at Brekkie – Laura sharing Cheerio cereal on the tray of Katie’s highchair, as a favourite daily past-time.

• Laura – “Oh man!” “You’re kidding!”

• Laura’s Favourites – Animals, fairies, princesses, pirates, hanging out with Nanna, cooking, food, movies and computer games (oh oh, hehehehe)!

• Katie’s Favourites – Playing outside and playing with bags, shoes, hats and Ma and Pa.

• Katie’s Playtime Antics – When Katie decides that she wants to play outside, she finds the hat bag and selects hats for everyone to wear. She then takes it to them and urges them to put it on and go outside to play!

• Katie’s Vocab – Mum, Dad, Ma, Pa, Nah-Nah, Laura, bath, backpack, hat plus lots of sounds like ‘ooo-oo-ooo’ and ‘trilling’!

• Katie’s Walking – She started at about 11 months and is now almost running (got to keep up with that sister of hers somehow)!

We hope you’ve shared a giggle with us… have a good one!

Cheers,
Jason, Chrissy and the Girls