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!

I installed my photo editing software this weekend and finished editing a bunch of random pictures earlier today, so I’ll be posting various pictures from the past couple of weeks tonight and tomorrow. I have some more photos to edit from my other camera, but I figure these will make my Mom happy, since look pictures!

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.

So I’m sharing this picture of him from the end of December. It just seems to fit.

Since I know that my Mom is going to start complaining about me not posting pictures recently. I have some pictures to post, they won’t be up until at least this weekend though, I just reinstalled this computer and I’m not sure where I put my photo editing software, so I need to find it and install it before I can post new pictures. Sorry Mom.

In other news Eloise has taken a number of steps, but still isn’t walking walking yet, I am guessing she will be soon. She is climbing, though not a ton. She tends to follow Desmond, so if he climbs up something and she can figure her way up she will climb up after him. Oh and she has a tiny foot, we got her measured at Stride Rite this weekend, and her foot is a 2 1/2 regular, so if anyone buys her shoes, hi mom, she needs a size 3 right now. Desmond was a 5 1/2 extra wide at 11 months, so Eloise being a 2 1/2 regular at 10 months is just tiny!

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!