First new sound..

Almost 7 months old--Like a laugh, but more of a squealing sound while in Sarlat/Dordonne. Very cute!

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I'm crawling now!

At 7 months, in France at Maman's house and she is really mastering her crawling technique now. Ok, looks like she is in the military, going through the trenches, but nevertheless, still cute and fast!

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Another tooth!

9/4 - 6 1/2 months--another tooth in the bottom front and bigger now

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Ma! Ma! Ma!

Now almost 7 months old---just before our trip to Europe, she is now saying MA MA MA very clearly. Laughs when I repeat it.

Ah-ha! my first tooth!! make a wish!

Patrick called me into the room telling me that he feels something like a tooth on Elodie's bottom gums. I rush in and take a peek, and low and behold! the cutest little tooth, just sitting there on her bottom right hand side and peeking up from her little gums.

Of course we did a tooth chant and applauded. Elodie thought this was funny, but I'm sure she didn't know why.

Now, I just need to watch out for when I breastfeed...ouch!

Another lovely day at the park...

Oh, one of our many fun days at the park since Elodie was 1 month old.

It was a beautiful day and Elodie was intrigued with the camera..and my keys.

Jumperoo...JUMP! JUMP! JUMP Elodie!

This is just the coolest toy for Elodie. We recently bought her a play pen and that is really great for her to have room to move around, and we also bought her a Bumbo seat with tray to help her sit up, but that was sort of short lived.

I heard so much about this stationary activity center called Rainforest Jumperoo by Fisher Price. I was in Babies r Us one day with Elodie and I decided to put her in the floor sample. I usually don't do this because of other babies germs,etc., but it was my one chance to try it out before looking into buying it.

She loved it right away and a big smile came on her face. I knew it was what we needed. And this would also help her feel empowered to stand up.

This video says it all..It makes us giggle every time she is in it...Hope you enjoy it too!!

My first taste of la cuisine!

Almost 6 months old and we have decided that it is time to introduce solid (really puree) foods to Elodie.

She has been eyeing us eating and drinking for some time now, but I wanted to wait until she was closer to 6 months because that is usually what is recommended to avoid any allergies.

We have decided to make all of our own food, but in order to not delay any further, and since we will be going on a trip next month, I went to Babies r Us and bought a small case of 8 jars of a variety of fruits purees made by Earth's Best (all natural). Before we use those, I decided that I would like to put her on Rice Cereal first (as everyone suggests). I added breastmilk to it and tasted it myself (yeesss..I did! what's the big deal?), and actually it was pretty gross. Elodie thought so also.

Next, I thought we'd introduce carrots. Elodie's first reaction is not a great one. I took some of our home delivered organic carrots and steamed them, then put them into our mini cuisinart to mash.

What did we expect? Breastmilk..sweet...Rice Cereal..yuck..Carrots..yum? umm..no. Of course I made up a huge batch, so much of it had to be thrown out after a few days. We tried again, but it just isn't something she is interested at the moment.

I heard from some friends that Barley was their daughter's favorite so I bought some of that and voila! she liked it, and not only that, but she ended up eating about 10 good sized spoonfuls. I could not have been happier.

Now, we've been slowly introducing the fruit jars of baby food, which are pretty tasty, and she seems to like them. I even made some of my own with some organic nectarines and added some bananas for sweetness and she liked that.

Making the food is very easy and it is fun to experiment with the different tastes.

We'll continue on with this method of fruit for the first couple months, then we will move onto some carniverous baby food, which I'm not really looking forward to, but she will need her protein.

Until then..bon appetit ma cacouette!

My first IM with Dad..

This morning Elodie had her first IM (Instant Messenger) chat with her Dad. It started off simple with just a few letters, and then it got sort of complicated when Dad typed the word "Cookie".

This caused her to have those wrinkles between her eyebrows, so the only thing she could do was to use big words like "s weuynnyhy", and luckily Dad responded in Elodie talk, which brought a big smile to Elodie's face.

I can grab my feet now..

Elodie is now 3 1/2 months and one day I walk into the bedroom and she is lying on her back and she has both hands on both feet. I did a double take. It seems that whenever she has a new ability, I seem to catch it by mistake.

I totally forgot about this ability and remembered seeing other babies (only in pics) do this very same thing. My first thought was that my little Elodie is really growing up. What next?...can't wait! :o)