I finally got around to finishing editing a bunch of pictures last night. So I have a bunch of pictures from both January and February to post. I figure I’ll do a couple of posts for the next few days. There are various sets of pictures so I will actually do separate posts rather then just one huge photo dump. Check my new posts to see some cute pictures.

Okay those these aren’t all the pictures they took yesterday, since that would have been over 40 pictures and some of them were a bit less then stellar, but here are a bunch of the pictures we had taken of Eloise. Enjoy the Eloise is turning 1 pictures!

First off here are the pictures of her with the 1 and the party background

Next are all the pictures of her in her pretty dress. I really like how these came out, she looks so cute.

Here is the previous one enhanced

We had to work hard to get pictures without her fingers in her mouth, she kept trying to put them in and we kept taking them out.

This is one of my favorite pictures

Here it is in black and white

Here is another one of my favorite pictures, I just like the angle on it. It also made me realize she has a cleft chin. I knew I had one and Desmond had one, I hadn’t realized she did too.

Here it is in black and white, I really like the picture in black and white.

She did not want to stand solo, she kept sitting when we stood her up, but we were finally able to get her to stand, but she was facing sideways. Here are her standing pictures.

I really love how the enhancements on this one make it look so old fashioned

We also got some combo pictures with our package so here are the ones we got. I like how they all turned out.

So we went to Sears today to get Eloise’s one year pictures done since Kiddie Kandids is gone. I was impressed, we got a ton of pictures. I realized after the pictures were done that I wanted a few more of her in her first outfit, but I decided not to worry about it since the photographer had taken over 40 pictures of her. We got to chose which ones we liked from all of them. Which was a huge change from Kiddie Kandids where you get to chose from between 6 and 8. We got a lot of great photos of her and she looks really really cute. The only downside is they don’t print on site, so I have to wait till the 10th to get all my sheets of her pictures. On the plus side they burn the CD there and we got all the pictures plus all the enhancements they had done there and a release so we can print the pictures anywhere we want, which is nice. We were impressed with the service and all the great pictures. We plan to go back for Desmond’s 3 year pictures next month.

Here are a couple of teasers. I’ll post the rest of the ones I edited for the web tomorrow.

Here is a video from last week of Eloise taking a few steps at my parent’s lake house.

Last night at Mommom’s Eloise was playing with the cow puppet we have and she handed the puppet to my Mom and said, “Cow go moo.” So apparently my 10 1/2 month old is now speaking in sentences on occasion.

Later in the evening she took 3 steps when we could all see her do it too. She should be walking soon, maybe.

Dan got a picture of her standing the other day. Of course she isn’t looking at the camera because she is trying to see what Desmond is doing. But you can see her standing at least. One day I will get a picture of her standing and looking at the camera, she might be 15 months old before I get the picture, but I will get it!

These are from my in-laws house from about a week and a half ago. We all went over and spent some time with them and then had spaghetti for dinner. Eloise is showing off her spaghetti eating skills. She made quite a mess. That is what is so much fun with new eaters though!

Here are two pictures of Eloise with her Dadi (Grandmother) and Dada. They are from different days, but they sort of go together as a theme. Anyways here they are.

You are 10 months old, you are closer to a toddler then a newborn now. You have been out in the world longer then I was pregnant with you. When you were born you were little and tiny, you snuggled up and loved watching everything.

You learned to smile and roll and stick out your tongue.

You started sitting

and laughing, and moving

And moving

And pulling up

And telling people hi, and eating table food

And you starting sliding and climb up stairs

And you visited Disney World and met lots of characters and rode lots of rids and had fun with everyone.

You started clapping, pointing, waving good bye and saying bye bye. You celebrated Thanksgiving in Georgia, and played in the leafs.

You started standing without support

And you got to play in the snow and go sledding with your big brother.

You celebrated the holidays with everyone and got to open far to many gifts!

You have turned into an almost toddler, not an infant/baby

You are just so big

And yesterday you showed that you knew how to get off the bed and you took a step! Happy 10 months Eloise.

I know this because I found her at the top of the stairs about an hour ago. I didn’t hear her on the monitor just heard her little voice at the top of the stairs, ran over an there she was peeking over the top stair! Apparently it is time to start closing the gate when I go downstairs and leave her to keep sleeping. On the plus side she seems to know how to get off the bed the correct way now!

Happy 10 months!