Ella!

This week Ella has been eating all kinds of food. She started with chocolate lebkuchen and moved on to onion bhaji, chicken panang, fish and chips, whitebait, chocolate cornflakes, green beans, peas, boiled potatoes, olive tapenade, pretzels and marmite bagels. She didn't like spring rolls or sea bass. But best of all was when she tried painting with red and green jelly, and made a spectacular mess*. Also this week Ella became even more attached to her teddy, tried swimming for the first time (she didn't really like it) and met Peter and George Ussher, who are a week older than her, for a meal in her favourite restaurant. As if all this activity wasn't enough, she also insists on having as many as 12 books read to her before bedtime.

* Untitled ("Da!"). Mixed media (Paper, red and green jelly, slobber). London, 2001