{"id":3328,"date":"2011-07-10T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T01:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2011-07-10T22:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T03:50:33","slug":"great-grandmas-week-meeting-cousin-saul-11-months-old-and-a-laundry-list-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Great Grandmas’ Week, Meeting Cousin Saul, 11 Months Old, and a Laundry List of Firsts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleanor had two Great Grandmas visit this week!\u00a0 First, Great Grandma L was in town with Aunt Ann, Kim, Genet, Kristen, Eric and Paul for the 4th of July.\u00a0 We had a fun breakfast downtown and had a chance to catch up and play with Genet.\u00a0 It won’t be long and she will be teaching Eleanor all of the tricks she is learning in Acrobatic Circus class.\u00a0 We spent the rest of Monday relaxing and having fun with Dad on his day off, and celebrating the 4th (Thanks to Aunt Libby for the bag-o-fun 4th of July gift bag!).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Later in the evening, Eleanor decided to kick off a furious week of Firsts by climbing 6 stairs all by herself.\u00a0 It is really amazing how quickly her walking and balance are improving.<\/p>\n

Ellie is also showing more interest in her “learning” toys.\u00a0 She is much more interested in how some of the toys work, like her “shape sorter”, “stacking sombreros” and “5 door popup animals”.\u00a0 She was able to put the shapes back into the sorter for the first time this week, and quickly moved from putting a single shape back to getting all six.\u00a0 She needs a bit of help deciding which hole to use, but stays determined to get that shape back in the basket.\u00a0 With the “5 doors”, she can close them with both her hands and feet (Mimi Sheri is taught her the feet trick!) and can open four of the five.\u00a0\u00a0 And she stacked two of the sombreros together for the first time.\u00a0 Not to be outdone – the old standby basic blocks also threw in a first this week, with Eleanor stacking them three high.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, that is only a sample of all the firsts we knocked out this week.\u00a0 I’ve included the full list below:<\/p>\n