Author: Mike

Eleanor turned seven months old this week, and celebrated with lots of smiles.  Her two top teeth are really starting to show, and Amy has dubbed them her “hippo” teeth.  With these new teeth, its really just a matter of time until the “Hi” pacifier becomes the ” ” pacifier.  Eleanor got lots of Aunt Lary…

Papa John and Mimi Sheri came to visit this weekend – we had lots of fun hanging out and shopping.  Papa John proved to be an expert with the spoon during Ellie’s Saturday lunch – as well as an excellent bedtime story reader.  Mimi Sheri had fun pushing Eleanor around town on Friday, playing with the pinwheel, and taking…

We got some great shots of Eleanor during her six month photo shoot.  Unfortunately, she wasn’t in the best of spirits when the photographer arrived, having missed the morning nap.  We couldn’t get her to play with her toes, but had some fun standing instead.  Enjoy!

Eleanor had a very busy week this week – especially the end of the week.  We started the week celebrating Valentine’s day in a fun outfit, and eating blueberries for the first time (messy!).  On Thursday we discovered the much delayed top tooth finally coming through.  On Friday, Dad played hookie and went along to baby…

We purchased Eleanor a high chair this week to aid in her new found love of food.  She has been branching out into crazy food combinations like “Pears, Peas and Broccoli” and “Peach Oatmeal Banana”.  Her favorite still seems to be single fruits, especially pears and mangoes.  Amazingly, we still don’t have any progress to…

Eleanor celebrated her half birthday by throwing the 2011 Super Bowl Chili Cookoff – her first party.  She did an excellent job hosting, although she did have to go to bed before the guests left.  It was great fun meeting lots of new people all at once. This week also brought a huge snowstorm, dropping 20+…

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Eleanor spent most of this week working on two skills – sitting and eating.  So far, we have had rice cereal, pears, carrots, bananas, apples and peas.  We had apples today, and she was really getting the hang of opening her mouth when the spoon came her way.  Things still get a bit messy though.   We have…

Eleanor took her first international trip this week, travelling to the British Virgin Islands.  I addition to escaping the cold, we tackled a number of firsts this week: Travelling to a different country First passport stamp Driving on the left (well… riding in a car on the left, anyway) Seeing a Lizard Riding on a…