what we've been up to:
Wallow: Elliot isn't crawling, but she sure is into wallowing. She'll sit in my lap and wiggle and roll all over the place. She just reaches and grabs for everything in sight, always trusting that we won't let her fall off our laps or off the couch/chair. She loves looking at things sideways or upside-down, but she likes to that mostly while you're holding her.
Peek-a-Boo: Elliot has finally gotten the hang of peek-a-boo. We play it mostly with her blanket, because it's small enough for her to grab. She likes it when we hold it in front of her, completely hiding ourselves, and she smiles hugely when we say "where's the baby? where's elliot?" and then promptly rips the blanket away. She's even gotten into holding the blanket up herself when she's ready to play (she even did it in the grocery store the other day!) It is SO cute.
Outdoor Babe: Baby Girl is still loving the outdoors. Only problem? Yeah, the fact that it was 34 degrees and Elliot was crying to play outside. How exactly do I know she wanted to play outside? Because we were at work and she was so very fussy until I walked her over to the glass door leading to the backyard and she started panting. Like a dog. I'm pretty sure she would've wagged her tail if she had one. So, like any brave mama, I strapped her into the stroller and bundled her up with a hat and blanket and we walked the 1.2 miles to the post office. Why the post office? Well, duh, I was at work and needed an excuse to take the babe on a walk. Multitasking folks, it's what being a working mama is all about!
Xylophone: My friend Sherry gave Elliot a wooden toy set at a baby shower last fall. The set is meant for babes 18 months and older, but Elliot loves the xylophone! We've played with it enough now that she knows how to hammer the keys. Or she just spazes out and the note-playing is just a byproduct of flailing arms.
Not So Yummy: We started Elliot on rice cereal yesterday. She took a few spoon fulls and was interested in the whole deal at first. She wanted to play with the spoon more than anything, but she quickly got the hang of the whole keep-you-arms-down-while-we-feed-you routine. After a few minutes thought Elliot seemed to lose interest in the whole project and was getting more down her face and on her bib than in her mouth. My last resort was to let her sip it out of the side. Turns out she loved that method. I know we're supposed to be teaching her how to use a spoon, but I just didn't want to waste the breast-milk that we'd mixed in with the cereal. Yep, I'm cheap, even with breast-milk.
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uuugh. this baby is so CUUUUUTE!
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