Comments (0) Baby Elle is now 10 months old and has learned a number of new tricks – crawling (one way) all the way up the stairs to the second floor (video below), crawling on all fours rather than doing the power scoot (arms only), and starting to eat table food such as green beans, pears and apples. Still has learned the fundamental trick desired by all parents – sleeping through the night.
Halloween came and went in Seattle, and we celebrated in the usual fashion – finding orange ground gourds (pumpkins), disembowling them and carving them, followed by dressing up in odd costumes and hitting the neighbors up for candy. Alex is now a little over five years old and Elle is 10 months old. Alex was a witch and Elle a frog. Better views of the photos and more photos on our Picasa site here.
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| Alex and Elle | Our Jack O Lanterns |
Granddaughter Elizabeth Ann (Elle) is now 9 months old. She rolls all around the floors, sits up, goes after the cat, and has started scooting (almost crawling) over the floors. She also is really able to move rapidly across the house in her walker (video of that is here). We’ve been actively baby-proofing the house for the fourth time in 32 years, locking down the electrical outlets and installing baby gates on the stairs. Elle has just started to get upper front teeth and has a pretty complete row of teeth on the bottom. She’s eating solid foods and loves sweet potatoes especially. She’s still not sleeping through the night, but is a pretty happy kid in general. Her sister Alex can really make her laugh. The video below shows her scooting across the floor to get a toy car, which she promptly sends driving across the room. More videos are on our YouTube channel here, and photos are on our Picasa site here.
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| Elizabeth Visits Seattle |
Elizabeth Anne had her fifth month birthday on June 7, 2010. We celebrated by rocking her to sleep and getting up in the middle of the night to feed her six ounces of formula.
But she’s been making a lot of progress. Today, June 10th, she had her first rice cereal mixed with formula. We figured it was about time to feed her solid foods because she would just suck down a 6 or 8 ounce bottle and still be hungry.
In the last couple weeks she’s also started to roll over (front to back), her hair has gotten long enough to have a “punk rock” effect, and she’s become very verbal – cooing and talking whenever she gets the chance. Teething has started, and she’s become a regular drool monster.
Elle sleeping in her Playpen.
She’s become very good at grabbing objects and (of course) sticking them in her mouth. Some of her favorite objects are a cloth flower, a cloth butterfly, and a set of beads. Gee, almost anything is fair game if it helps here solving the teeth – hurting problem!
But generally she is a very agreeable kid. Still wakes up about 3AM or 4AM, but now that we are feeding solid foods, she might sleep longer. Hope springs eternal with Grandma and Grandpa!
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