New Skills

It was hard for me to choose videos, because Elodie is doing so many new things right now. I keep grabbing the camera and making movie after movie. Most of them are kind of lame, and way too long-this drives Rob (the A.V. guy) crazy :). I tried to pick a couple of shorties.

Elodie sits up on her own now, she started this before she even hit the five month mark! This seems really young to me, but maybe I just forget. She can roll both ways (we cheer her on profusely for this talent!). She's also really scooty, and wants to move. If she is sitting on our laps, for example, and sees something she wants, she reaches out with both hands and leans her body into that direction. Sometimes she ends up on her knees with her hands planted in front of her and rocks just a little. I know that rocking position often proceeds crawling, so I won't be surprised if she crawls fairly soon. Well, I will and I won't, because in my mind she is still my tiny girl. She sounds older too, her babbles are more word-like. Bennett says things like: "Mama, Elodie say 'blah blah blah'," or "Elle told me 'ya'!"

If she would just learn the skill of sleeping well she would be the perfect baby! We still aren't doing so fabulously in that department, but it's o.k. At times it is pretty brutal-like this week when I practically had a break-down and wanted Rob to call in sick-but for the most part we are just pushing through, knowing how short the "sleepless period" really is in the big picture. It also helps that she is impossible to be mad at. She smiles with every ounce of energy she can muster, and it is wonderfully contagious. The best medicine!

Here she is sitting:



And here she is rolling. She is actually kind of a quick roley-poley, it doesn't always take as much effort as this video suggests.



And this one is totally off topic, but I loved it all the same. He just learned this new song a couple of days ago and hasn't stopped singing it since.

P.S, he is a sweeter big brother than I ever imagined a big brother could possibly be.