At the aquarium

Eloise seems to love fish - she loves her fish mobile over her changing table, loves her fishy chair...so we took her to the aquarium to see if she liked the real thing. Here's the result - I can see marine biology in her future!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Saturday was Adam's birthday! I know this is technically Eloise's blog, but she was there! We went to brunch on Alki in West Seattle. The weather was lovely and helped remind us that when there is sun, Seattle is actually quite beautiful! Happy Birthday Adam!

Laughing

Snowshoeing!

Eloise went snowshoeing for the first time yesterday! It was hard to tell but we think she liked it!

Sundowners

We had beautiful weather the other day, so we went to our favorite neighborhood park to enjoy an apéritif.



















































Gin's family came by - so of course we had to take the babies together!

Hiccups!

More videos!

We brought a mobile back from Madagascar that we have hanging over Eloise's changing table - she loves it! Here she is trying to talk to the fish...





















Here, again, trying to get her to nap...an ongoing theme these days..

Hooray! Turning over!

Eloise turned over for the very first time today! It took a few tries, but she did it! In the first video, she tries but is unsuccessful...but in the second, she makes it! And if it seems like I am torturing her (by letting her get so frustrated); apparently what motivates babies to turn over is that they don't like being on their stomach, so I encouraged her to 'channel' her frustration to help her - and it worked!



Note her startled expression once she ends up her back (mais qu'est ce que je fais la??)

Eloise and Gin

Virginia Ronco is exactly one month older than Eloise, so these girls are going to be spending A LOT of time together (and with Caoimhe and Zoe too!). Here, Eloise and Gin have a 'scream off' in the car on the way home from a walk. For sworn fans only - or those who actually enjoy hearing screaming babies....!

Apres la sieste

Apres le bain

Out on a walk

Though the last few posts would indicate the contrary, we actually DO get out of the house - here we are with the rest of our gang at the Queen Anne lookout.

Fighting sleep - la lutte contre le dodo

For die hard fans, some low-light video of Eloise giving into sleep (note the cool trick I do at the end!)

No sleep

Eloise is becoming a very good sleeper - most of the time she will fall asleep on her own without too much intervention on our parts. Now and then, however, she refuses to sleep altogether!

Speak!

Eloise doesn't quite have words yet, but she knows how to get her point across with other sounds! Here I try to prompt her to talk, but she gets tired of being asked to perform....