Order? Bah!

Aaaaaaand my kid has decided to start walking. No idea how to crawl. No idea how to put herself into sitting. And yet she's pulling herself up to standing and shuffling along the coffee table. Why am I unsurprised that she has to do things the hard way and entirely out of order!?

Still catching up

Another pre-dated post, with just a few pics of the little one through the end of 2010.

Grampa Speaker!

Ellie took her Grampa out to dinner tonight to help him celebrate this fantastic achievement of a majority in the House of Representatives, and his path to Speaker. But she forgot her wallet so he had to pay. She still says, "Congratulations Grampa Speaker! We are so proud of you!!"

First Halloween

Some pics of BC's first Halloween. My precious baby girl.

Teething squared

My poor child has been teething. And not just teething. Teething both top front teeth at once. And not just that. They're Batchelder teeth.

Poor child.

Batchelder teeth. In adult form. 

Let's hope she doesn't start growing the eyebrows next.

Sleeping Update

I would like to report that, on September 10, 2010, my child slept nine hours for the first time. 6 months was maybe longer than I would've liked to wait, but I can't really complain!

And by September 29, she slept three nights in a row for 8 hours or more. Unheard of!!

Let's see how long this lasts . . .

Eating and Sleeping . . . for now

It's funny to look back at facebook posts and see how the Monkey's sleep habits . . . matured. This is a pre-dated post, and it appears that, as of September 16, 2010, she was sleeping 9 hours at a stretch. Just interesting to me, given what she did at 18 months old.

And here are some images of my little Monkey from around that time.

Learning to eat solids, one of the first days in a long line of days in which she would eat anything that wasn't nailed down. My little porker. :)




At a party for my Aunt Barbara, at which the monkey was passed around the room from person to person without so much as a peep about wanting her mommy or a fuss when new people held her. Such a good little one.