My Oh Meyer: July 2015

Our big girl is eleven months old! Just one more month until she's no longer a "baby", but let's be honest, she'll always be my baby!

She's waving, she's clapping, she's crawling faster than we can chase her, and she has recently started walking a little while holding onto furniture. Basically, Eleanor is growing up and it's exciting and terrifying at the same time! She kind of prances when she crawls - it's adorable. She holds her arms out wide when we ask how big she is. She'll hand us whatever she's playing with if we ask for it, and she'll even go "fetch" a ball or toy, as Kevin lovingly refers to it. I haven't caught it on video yet, but she dances when I sing to her or play music! It's more like a bob/bounce sort of thing, but we love it. She "talks" all the time, and though we don't think she's officially said her first word yet, she says dada a lot, might have said cat once when she was chasing Nemo, kind of says a "yay" type sound while clapping, and she might have said hi once or twice while waving. She has definitely hit the separation anxiety phase, but she's also been more cuddly so we can't complain about that.

She quacks me up.

We celebrated Kevin's first Father's Day this month! Eleanor gave him a photo coffee mug, and we celebrated with raspberry pancakes and mimosas.

Nom nom!

Eleanor and I had some professional photos taken this month by the same photographer who took her newborn photos. I love them, and here are a few of our favorites.

Where'd your mouth go?

Love those little piggies!

Other fun activities this month include a visit to the Iowa Arboretum, and celebrating Eleanor's first Independence Day by going to the parade downtown.

Higher, Dad!

We're very excited for this coming month - Auntie Charity and cousin Elijah are coming to visit and they will be here for Eleanor's first birthday! We're also having a bit of a family reunion in Minneapolis with our Dad and half siblings, nieces and nephews, our grand niece and nephew, and cousins! We can't wait!