Desmond is still not sure what to make of Eloise. He is getting more use to her though and will sometimes touch her and play with her. One of his favorite things to do is to tell me to sit her down where he pats. He then “waits” till she falls over, or “helps” her fall over and then “helps” he get back up to a sitting position. As long as he isn’t trying to lift her up and she is happy I let him move her about with supervision. Here is Desmond playing with Eloise to get her to sit back up. The picture are in order starting with her sitting and then on the ground, so Desmond can “help” her back up.

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Today you are 5 months old. Just 5 months ago you were about to make your appearance into the world.

From the start you loved being held and having someone holding you. You won’t sleep alone, or hang out on the floor or in your co-sleeper alone without crying for the first 5 weeks or so. So you were rarely put down. Though occasionally you were okay for a few minutes.

You got to meet your Great Grandfather and he got to hold you.

You grew some, and Mommy stopped having milk products and you became much happier.

ANd your big brother decided, maybe she isn’t too horrible…

And you kept growing and trying to move, you learned to roll.

You started sitting up with no support, and playing with toys and trying to figure out everything. And you got to swim!

Then you learned to get on your hands and knees and rock and propel your self forward to get whatever interested you. And you got your first tooth!

And despite your brother sharing his pasta with you today, you are still exclusively breastfed! You are learning more every day and growing up so fast, you are no longer a newborn. You are opinionated and know what you want and you are working hard to get it too. Soon you will be pulling up and standing and cruising and talking. Happy 5 months Eloise!

So I finally gave up on getting Desmond down for his nap last week. I refuse to fight him for 2 hours to get him down for a nap. He does get quiet time while Eloise naps, but I don’t sit with him till he goes to sleep, he is welcome to stay up till bedtime. The past three days however, he has decided to just fall asleep where he is.

“No Night! No Night, Mama!” (He calls any going upstairs for sleep, nap or bedtime, night)

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Eloise sleeping on my lap:

Thursday (aka today):

On the plus side nap time is much easier these days, so I am amazed at what positions the child can fall and stay asleep in.

Here are a couple of close up pictures of Eloise that I took when I took the previous pictures. She is just so cute and has the best expressions.

Here are a couple of pictures from the other day of Eloise. The first two are of her “crawling” She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks and then pushes herself forward and does it again. Then there are two of her sitting, she is great at sitting now, except that her brother likes to push her down. When he isn’t around to help her out though, she can stay seated with no support for over 3 minutes. There is also a picture of her just lying around.

Here are two videos of Eloise. She rolls in both of them! You can sor tof see her crawling in the second one as well at the beginning.

So Eloise loves to get up on her hands and knees and then push her self forward. She can move her hands and knees to go forward too, but she tends to get up and then throw her whole body forward to move. Anyways here are some pictures of her on her hands and knees.

A story with pictures. Back in April 2007 I had a baby boy, Desmond.

He was a very cute baby, and very quickly started to move.

And work on crawling

Shortly after that he was off and running working on cruising

Then he figured out how to stand on his own and walk

Shortly after that he started to run

And was soon quite happy, running and playing and exploring all on his own

So I had one mover, who loved to climb and explore and started moving very quickly. I decided to have another baby though and had Eloise in March 2009.

I figured there was no way she would move as fast as her brother right? She won’t start crawling at 4 months, Desmond crawling at 5 months was early enough, there was no way she would be up on her hands and knees moving at 4 months. Shows what I know.

And yes the story was just an excuse to use cute old pictures of Desmond!

Here are some pictures from my in-law’s house this weekend. Eloise had fun crawling on hanging around in the family room.

So my father in law is from India, and Dan and he are Hindi. So we occasionally do ceremonies to celebrate certain things when we visit my in-law’s house. Anyways Rakhi is when a sister asks her brother for his protection by tying a decorated string (rakhi) around his arm. He then gives her money or a gift to show that his sister is under his protection and he will watch out for her, or at least that is what I believe it is about. Anyways my in-laws had just received some Rakhi from India so when we were visiting on Saturday, Eloise tied one around Desmond’s arm and he gave her a dollar to show he will protect her (if you consider protecting her to mean he will jump over, not on her *grin*). Here are the pictures.