She's on the move!

Eleanor started crawling on Sunday at my mom's house. I would not say that she has mastered it yet, but she's able to get around now. Over the past few days she has kind of slacked off. She is more interested in the fact that she can sit herself up. I am just as happy about that as I am about her crawling. Brian and I love to watch her crawl over to her piano all by herself now. Eleanor will play a note or two and then applaud for herself, and she expects us to applaud every time, too.

We also had a visit from Grandma, Aunt Cathy, Tyler, and Abby on Friday. I had to wake Eleanor from her nap so that she could visit with them. She was so happy to wake up and see everyone in her room. Right away she wanted Abby to hold her. Eleanor would not let go of Abby, and she just kept smiling. She loves her cousins! It was so cute!

I've been a bad blogger...

Why is it that I always remember to write something just as I'm settling into bed. I'm just going to list random thoughts and updates so that I'll feel caught up.

* I cannot believe that people are interested in reading my blog. It scares me that people read what I write. I struggled with this so much in school.

* Eleanor does a great job getting up on her hands and knees. If only she could figure out that she needs to move her arms and how to do it!

* Brian's dad finally came home from the hospital/Florida. He seems to be doing well, we're happy!

* Sometimes I worry that Eleanor does not "talk" enough. She is very quiet, but I suppose Brian and I are, too.

* I feel like I will never get the house clean and organized. I need to have a garage sale. Brian and I have too much junk.

* I'm going to try and get some pictures and videos up soon. 24 hours are not enough.

8 months old

I cannot believe that Eleanor is 8 months old today! Every single mom that I talk to says that time flies when you have a baby, and of course they are all right. Eleanor is working on crawling right now. She's mastered clapping, which is so cute! Her babbling has ceased for the time being, which is both odd and sad. I liked hearing "dadadada" all the time. I suppose she's just too busy in her attempt to become mobile.

It's been a while since I have written, but since then Brian's dad was in a very serious accident. Luckily, he is doing very well. He has another surgery on Monday, so he will be in our thoughts as always. I wish that we could visit. I know seeing Eleanor would really cheer him up. He is in FL, though, and making the trip just is not possible right now. I think we'll probably visit a lot when he makes it back to St. Louis.

Last night Brian and I managed to get a babysitter so we could go to the law school's Barrister Ball. It was fun. I was not as worried about Eleanor as I thought I would be, but I think that's just because we did not leave the house until she was in bed. It made me wish we could go out more. However, until she starts taking a bottle, we will be staying in for a while. We are just lucky that she is such a good baby; we have no problem taking her places with us.