Whenever we go to a Hong Kong landmark or tourist destination this happens.

Ella gets attacked by Mainlanders.

Notice how the first lady doesn't even ask if she can manhandle my child? Lucky for her I am fairly casual about it. As long as Ella doesn't mind and they don't touch her face, I am fine with it.

We only wanted to film Ella playing in the water but we got so much more LOL

a zeotrope with Toy Story characters at Disneyland.

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures

Ella's first word is...........

It took us a week to get it on tape, but here it is!!

Ella tries painting

Ella loves to play with the box her trike came in.

It was a rainy day today so we decorated the box.
We used stamps, stickers and finger paint!

















Of course she put the paint brush into her mouth.
Don't think she liked the taste of blue paint very much

















Ella was tired of painting at this point and didn't want to show off the smiley face she had on her tummy :(

We bought Ella a trike!!

It is ugly as all heck but whatever. It has a squeaky Winnie the Pooh head on the handlebars and 2 baskets to carry toys in.

She can't quite reach the pedals yet but it won't be long, I am sure

Ella in the park this morning.

She starts off walking on the reflexology stones.

Then she darts off, cutting off an amah without a second look.

Then comes an innocent little girl on a scooter.
Ella rocks right up to her, starts emptying the basket and promptly steals the scooter from the girl!

Ella and Suds were walking to buy rice for dinner.

Ella saw a little girl holding a teddy bear.

Ella took the bear.

Her first word just might be "MINE!"

Ella was so good yesterday.

She started the day by sleeping in till 7:45, which is absolutely unheard of! If she sleeps till 6:45 I am thrilled so an extra hour was a gift.
Then we headed to Kowloon for some grass time and a picnic with her buddy Ollie.










After that we met with Andrew and had lunch in the plaza. Ella was well behaved and loved sitting under the Mid Autumn Festival lanterns.





Then it was time for a nap:) We didn't let her sleep here but put her into the Ergo and she slept on the way home.

Ella and her baby

Dixie gave Ella a Cabbage Patch doll and she just loves it!










I bought her a bottle so she can feed baby some milk












Here she is carrying her baby in a sling.

quick post while I have 2 seconds....

On Sunday we went out to Tung Chung (near the airport) to celebrate Eve's first birthday.

Ella made a little friend on the way.









Giving the doggie a big hug







The dog's owner thought she was hilarious!







The party was held in the complex's Karaoke room (our building has a room for this too!!)





A toy bin! I may as well crawl right in!










The birthday girl























Eve's parents live in a large complex of 15 towers called Caribbean Coast. we almost bought here, even putting in an offer on an apartment.