October and November

The Fierce Godzilla. Roarrr

It's been a busy couple of months. Eliot is crawling, pulling up on the coffee table and has two new teeth top teeth. To date, he's got about 5.5 teeth. He's discovered the computer cords, the simple pleasure of dropping things to hear them crash and the fact that my nose is attached to my face. He's eating chopped up egg, broccoli & cheese omelets and loves yogurt and mashed sweet potatoes-separately of course.  For Halloween, Eliot was dressed as "Godzilla" (in dinosaur costume), and watched us carve his name in to a pumpkin to celebrate his first Halloween.


Testing, testing 1, 2, 3...

Eliot has also figured out Belle's worst fear: pulling on her collar and shaking it. Over there, you can see he's about to reach up and grab it. He thinks it's really funny when he does it too-shreaks like a Taradactyl.  Thankfully, Belle has been very patient with Eliot and is trying to build up her tolerance for his funny business. We have caught her napping on Eliot's rug while he sleeps so we know she secretly likes him.  She also has started to put herself in "time out" when she gets in trouble and other times, she'll just leave the room if Eliot starts to make his way to her tail - so at least she's showing signs of progress.

Other things to update are that Eliot has started clapping.  He's very proud of that skill, and he now waves wildly with one arm while he holds on for dear life to a cabinet handle with the other.
He's started "pointing" to (read: smacking) things in the book and loves to strum the strings on Rob's guitar. The picture below has nothing to do with updates - I just like that he was very intent on holding his cha-cha (rattle) while eating. Silly me tried to grab and suggest putting cha-cha down so he could use his other hand to eat, but I got this warning expression.  So, I let him be one with is cha-cha during dinner...


Don't even think about it...



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