The park at sunset

One the way to Nana and Nana Lu's a bit ago we stopped at the park to help Caroline get her wiggles out.  It is amazing to see how strong she is now compared to a few months ago.  She has such great confidence as she plays.  It is so fun to watch!

She runs runs runs, then stops to climb and stare, then off again.

Then at some point, she requests "no pictures!!!" (shot during "pic"tures)

Hard to stop though.

Our attempt at sister pictures

It started with some of this while big sis was running around (away). 

Then we got some of this sister love.

Then this.  But thanks for the dresses Nana and Papi!

EMN 5 months old

My nugget is growing!  She is happy, strong, and big.  The past week or two we've had a small sleep regression, so I am going to really focus on getting her schedule back on track.

Eleanor loves smiling...smilings the best.  She loves to bounce and roll and is almost sitting without tipping over. She has side to side down but front and back gets so hard when you are fighting such a big and heavy head and belly. She is super interested in food of all kinds.  Her cheeks are delicious.  I think we'll see a tooth by 6 months.

You can see who helped us take these photos down below.  :)

Eleanor eats

Thanks to Papou, Eleanor has her own chair now and got to get her hands dirty today with some avocado and banana.  The girl LOVED it.  Destroyed the area she was working in though.  I forgot about that lovely aspect of baby-led weaning.  She was happy, but frustrated.  We're looking forward to tomorrow and more food!

Caroline on ice!

Yeah, so she loved it.  Nearly broke John's back, but there was a lot of "more" and "iiiiiiice".  Needless to say we'll be returning for another spin around the ice!

First she laced up!  The Cabin John ice rink has teeny skates!

Then they hit the ice.

This is her demanding to return to the ice "myself". (love her)

Eleanor got to hang out with Nana while I did a lot of proud cheering and photographing.

She got more and more confident as time went on. And had no issue dusting herself off and getting back to "skating".

Hang with me while I work on my photo processing.  I had been using picasa web to store my images for blogging but I really want to find the right balance between size, crispness, efficiency, etc.  The pics of Eleanor were pretty crispy crunchy but I'll figure it out one of these nights while John is playing hockey.  Cheers!

Happy new year! Happy new camera!

I got a new camera and a new lens, so naturally I got one of the kiddos to sit for me.  Guess which one?