The Nighs: December 2011

The housing center has lots of fun free events all year long. For Christmas they have pictures with Santa. We got there about 30min early and about 10min before the big kids would get off the bus and ended up being 8th in line. Eli had lots of fun while we waited in line. She watched all the other kids run around and smiled at all the elves, Mrs. Clause, Frosty, Rudolf, even the Grinch. And everyone loved her. She got some reindeer ears and a candy necklace from the elves. I was a little nervous that she wouldn't like Santa and we would have a screaming child Santa pic, but I should have known better. Eliana looked at Santa for a second and he held out his arms and she went right to him. He was wearing glasses and she planned on eating them. They got a great picture and Eliana got a candy cane. They had crafts and treats available for after, but we just talked with friends for a bit and then our picture was ready. P.S. Thanks Aunt Becky, everyone said the dress was adorable!

She was too busy watching Frosty to look at Mom.

Waiting for Santa

Merry Christmas!

I know I know I'm way behind. So I'm going to update and tell you how here day went and give you lots of pics.

So Eliana is crawling now! One day she just got on her knees and that was it, no more army crawling. She is also pulling herself up all by herself. And she can walk along the edge of things. She loves to walk around with Mommy or Daddy holding her hands. She really explores the house now too. She is also working on getting off baby food. I blend or mash what we are having for dinner and that is what she has too. I think she has discovered more things in the last month than ever before. We also started letting her cry it out at night rather than me nursing her back to sleep. It was really hard for Mom the first night, but she only cried for 30 min around 11:30 and then slept till 8. 2nd night was only 20 min around 11 (I think) and then slept till 7:30. 3rd night we didn't hear her at all! She (and Mommy and Daddy) got a cold at Thanksgiving. Poor girl was so congested she couldn't use her binky. It wasn't in the plans, but binky has become a just nap time and bed time thing. 1 step closer to no binky at all!

So normally Eliana would tell you about her day, but there wasn't much to tell...She slept in until 8 and played and went down for a nap at 10 and slept for just over 3 hours! When she got up we went out and did a few errands with Daddy. We cam home and she took a little nap on the way home. Then a bit more playing and then it was bath time and bedtime.

Ok so now a few pics, I didn't get many of her that day because she was either sleeping or we weren't home, but here are pics from the week!