Author: Mike
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Football Season
Eleanor celebrated the opening of the NFL season with a party at Uncle B’s house. She was sporting her new Bears outfit, but only because her Lions outfit doesn’t fit anymore. Dad will have to get her a replacement soon – I can’t have another Bears fan in the house. Eleanor also turned 13 months…
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Dancing, Using a Spoon, and other fun videos
A few videos from this week. Enjoy!
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Visitors and New Tricks
Eleanor had a lot of visitors this week, with Grandma early in the week, and Papa and Mimi over the weekend, and sported some new tricks for her visitors. For starters, Eleanor is really expanding her non-verbal communication skills. She is pointing with purpose (usually in the form of “I want that”, or “Those are…
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Do they make that in Mac and Cheese Flavor?
This week Eleanor took advantage of the good weather with lots of trips to the park – and lots of mac and cheese! She has also been working on her crawling and climbing technique. She has always preferred walking to crawling, but this has posed a problem for things like crawling tunnels. She tries to…
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Climb stairs, slide, repeat
Good weather this week gave Eleanor ample time to enjoy the parks. There were lots of trips down the slide, and lots of swinging. Eleanor has taken to pointing at Mom’s hat and/or sunglasses when she would like them – which is most of the time. Mimi was in town for a quick visit, and…
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Its a Boy!
On Thursday we found out that new baby (code name #2) is going to be a boy! A few ultrasound pics below. You can apparently tell from the one with the “Its a Boy” on it that he is in fact a boy – but I couldn’t tell until the tech wrote out the text. If…
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One year olds have lots to do
Eleanor had a busy first full week of being 1 year old. We had a photography session, a trip to the doctor, we watched an ultrasound of our future brother (yep, its a boy!), not to mention playing with all her new toys. She is getting particularly good at her basketball hoop. Sometimes even non-toys…
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Happy Birthday Eleanor!
Eleanor had lots of visitors this week to help her celebrate her first birthday! A great big thanks to everyone who helped make it a special occasion. The big day started with our monthly family photo shoot, unfortunately Eleanor had taken a spill earlier, so she had a big scrape on her forehead :( We…