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Little Bean

valerie -- June 18th, 2010

At 21 months and counting, Elise is having a language explosion. She’s putting together two-three word sentences. And this morning as I was pouring a cup of brow elixir for John and myself she came up with a new one: “Happy coffee (caw-caw) baby!”
That’s my girl.

May I introduce, Scarface

john -- May 11th, 2010

Last night, Elise was sporting a lovely red mark across her face. Inquiries with Maia revealed some sort of incident involving a shoe, but, details were hardly forthcoming, and no one involved could care less about it.
But, I can’t help but see a budding mobster ready to make her mark on the kids at the [...]

Steps Away from Stepping Out

valerie -- November 3rd, 2009

Elise took a halting half step tonight. Maybe more of a foot adjustment, but still. The idea that she can remain upright and move is beginning to solidify. She just loves to stand and today she was letting go and holding an independent stance for as long as her baby attention span lets her. She [...]

Park Date

valerie -- November 1st, 2009

We did something today that I have been remiss in doing lately. We went to the park. My favorite park for little crawlers and just standers and the big sister that travels with them.
It was a beautiful day for it. Sunshine, cool breeze, temperate weather. The time was right…after lunch so it was very quiet. [...]

Standing Tall

valerie -- October 19th, 2009

Today Elise managed a neat new trick. As she was playing with the (for lack of a better title) Tupperware drawer she pulled herself up to her feet to look inside and see what she was going to pull out. She then took note of a shoe she wanted to hold and instead of dropping [...]

Six Toothed Girl

valerie -- September 24th, 2009

Lucky for you, I’ve dropped the teething ball and Elise popped just about three teeth at the same time. She now has four upper and two bottoms. Yes. Just enough to really get you when she bites you.
She’s working on more bottoms, but man. She’s loving crunching up crackers. I started them on Goldfish–The Official [...]

Got Wheels

valerie -- July 19th, 2009

Elise has wheels. Her crawling skills have improved and she’s added the effortless move from crawling to sitting and back again. She can tear through the house and end up–who knows where?
I pulled out the little walker cart to give her something to climb on and she’s enjoying that. We also played a little game [...]

Snaggle tooth

john -- May 18th, 2009

Some photographic evidence of the toothed smile is in order. These were taken Saturday, 2 days ago.

Everything is still hand to mouth.

Yes, I do have 2 teeth there. But, what’s all the fuss?

And, yes, Elise still has her full body smile. One day, she’s going to out grow it. Hopefully no time soon.

Hard to beleive [...]

And Another One

valerie -- May 15th, 2009

Yup. Elise popped her second tooth Tuesday. And her first one is going strong…she now has that one-almost-two toothed grin. She really is an adorable baby.

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