Ellie is at that age where some of the things that she says can have Gemma and I in pleats of laughter. Sometimes the laughter isn’t appropriate, but it is just so hard to keep it under control.
For example, the other day, Ellie was playing with her toys, and she let out the most enormous fart. (She’ll probably hate me for saying that in years to come!) Normally she will just smile and say “it was me!”, but on this occasion her response was classic:
“It sounds like a motorbike!”
That had Gemma and I in hysterics. Ellie is really coming out with some things at the moment.
Another example from a couple of weeks ago was when we were in the car. Ellie was messing around with some jars of Liam’s food, which I asked her to put down on a couple of occasions. She ignored me, so I took them out of her hand, and was greeted by her answering back,
“That is just SO rude!!”
Which was quickly followed by,
“You’re naughty, get up to your room!”
Well, you can imagine how we reacted. Try to stifle our laughter in the car was not easy. This was one of the ocassions when we really should not have been laughing, but we just couldn’t help ourselves!
These are just some of the magic moments you get as the kids are growing up. I can’t wait to hear what else she comes out with 
Russell Howard
On Saturday night Gemma and I went to see Russell Howard at the Albert Halls in Bolton.
It was the first comedy gig that we’d been to and we were not disappointed. We’d taken the decision to see Russell Howard after seeing him on the BBC show ‘Mock The Week‘.
Russell Howard is like a hyperactive kid trapped inside an adults body. He is so excitable about his subject matter that you cannot help but get taken along for the ride.
The speed at which the stories and subjects come out of his mouth makes you wonder whether his head will explode with so much going on. He just can’t wait to tell the audience. Then all of a sudden he goes off on a complete tangent, talking about something completely different.
Whether he is talking about the current economic climate and readers of the Daily Mail who’s biggest complaint is that ‘the world is going mad’, or telling antecdotes about the time when he was wearing his friend’s mum’s swimming costume as a wrestling outfit, he has endless reserves of enthusiasm.
We were truly impressed with his performance, and we left with our faces hurting from the constant laughing.
I urge you, if you get the chance, to go and see Russell Howard.
Gemma and I have got tickets to go and see Russell Howard at the Albert Halls in Bolton in November. It’ll be the first time that either of us has gone to see some live comedy.
We decided to go and see him after seeing him on BBC’s “Mock the Week.” I think he is absolutely hilarious, and we are both looking forward to it. All of the regular guests on the program are really funny, and we wouldn’t mind going to see any of them.
This will probably the first time that we will have had chance to go out since Liam was born, so Nana Mandy has kindly volunteered to babysit Ellie and Liam.
What’s the most unusual way that you’ve been woken in the night?
The other night Gemma and I were woken at about 4 o’clock in the morning by a really strange noise from outside. It sounded like someone was dying. A really loud groaning sound. I got out of bed to investigate.
I looked up and down the street. Nothing seemed obvious, I couldn’t see anything or anyone who would be making such a noise. But, just as I was about to return to bed there was the noise again. My attention was now focused across the road. And there was the source of all the noise!
One of our neighbours was hanging out of his bedroom window throwing his guts up. Not the most pleasant sight to greet my eyes at that time of the morning. He had his whole torso out of the window and was being sick on to his porch / garage roof below. The roof was angled away from the house towards the street and so there was a small river of sick running down the roof.
Why he couldn’t go to the bathroom, I have no idea! After laughing a little at his position, I returned to bed.
Only to be woken again an hour later by the same retching sound, and another torrent of stomach contents running across the roof. I went back to sleep shortly after before having to get out of bed to go to work.
The river of sick was still there as I was leaving for work. It was so obvious to any passer-by what had happened. Luckily though, by the time that I got home from work later that day all traces of the incident had been removed.
Yesterday Ellie had Gemma and I laughing.
Gemma was talking to her Mum on the phone when Ellie asked to speak to Nana Mandy. Ellie wanted to tell her about her holiday, and to show her the photos that were taken at the holiday.
All excited, Ellie took the phone off Gemma and headed upstairs to her bedroom where the photos were to show Nana. Gemma and I remained downstairs where we listened to Ellie saying to Nana Mandy,
“Look Nana, photos.”
We just knew that she was then holding up the phone for Nana to have a look, as Nana kept saying to Ellie,
“I can’t see them”
As Ellie gets older there are going to be some more treats to savour.
For those of you who missed David Coulthard’s (RED BULL) comments after being taken out by Felipe Massa (FERRARI) :
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXaeycIeNGc&hl=en]
It’s always good to hear what they really think!
UPDATE : CLIP IS NOW NOT AVAILABLE 
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