My Oh Meyer: Ten Months

Eleanor is ten months old! How did that happen?

This was a month of milestones for Eleanor. Within just a few days, she started sitting on her own, sitting up on her own, standing, pulling up and crawling! She became super mobile pretty much overnight and we realized we probably should have baby proofed our place a while ago. With a couple of gates, some foam padding, some rearranging and a couple DIY fabric projects, we now have a baby proofed living room that she can freely roam.

It might be time to baby proof...

You're safe, for now, Nemo.

Finding Nemo

Eleanor loves to go on walks and run errands with us, and to meet her friends for play dates and baby time at the library. She loves to climb all over us and wrestle with us on the floor, and she loves to terrorize the cat. She seems so much happier now that she can get wherever she wants to go. She basically wants to play with anything that she shouldn't have - bonus points if it's valuable! Eleanor is full of energy and always on the move, except when she's sleeping. Her sleep has been improving the last week or so. She's been sleeping more 3 to 3 1/2 hour chunks instead of 2 - we hope it's a new trend!

Ooh is that a camera?!

Can't quite reach!

She is still our little toothless wonder, but that doesn't stop her from gumming new foods such as chicken, pasta, crash hot potatoes, egg and chicken fajitas (sans tortilla). We've added more seasonings to her food, like a little chili powder, cumin, and paprika to the fajitas and cinnamon to steamed apples, etc. She loves it! There's only one food that she hasn't eaten - cucumber. It actually upset her for some reason! We've only tried it once though, so we'll give it another shot pretty soon.

Potatoes!

You're killin' me, man!

This month we celebrated my first Mother's Day, which was splendid. Kevin made french toast with mimosas, and we had a little Downton Abbey marathon. As a Mother's Day gift, we upgraded our carrier since Eleanor was busting out of the old one.

There is no escape.

We had some fun adventures this month, including visiting Colo, Iowa, going to Reiman Gardens to see the butterflies (awake, this time!), watching live music at the chocolate shop, and going to the farmer's market and the Art Walk downtown.