Eloise at ThanksgivingOkay, before everyone has a freak attack, this is NOT Eric posting :) It's still me, but we are trying to post using his username so we can see if its easy to post pictures from our Picasa album. Unfortunately, when we created our blog and our Picasa page, we didn't think about the fact that we may want to use them simultaneously, so we each created our own. What.A.Mess! Really, its not that bad, just makes adding pictures take a little extra time! No worries!
Now for the goodies! I have a surprise for everyone.....we have been BUSY! Surprised? Well, you would think that with a Thanksgiving break, a personal day, two snowdays, AND a 1 hr late start over the last three weeks that I would have had time to post, BUT, not so much! Sorry ya'll! Anywho, since my last post (which was what? a year ago?) Eloise has turned 5 months old AND 6 months old, and is only a mere couple weeks away from turning 7 months old! My how time flies! At her last doctors appointment, she got a few more shots, but as usual she was a trooper! She did have a little cold that the doctor gave us some tasty amoxicillan and a grape flavored anti-histamine for. She weighed almost 14 lbs. (13 lbs and 15 oz. to be exact), she's stretched out in length a little, and her head circumference was in the 75th percentile. Dr. Burton was very pleased with how well she is doing. We love Dr. Burton :)
Eloise is in her phase 2 baby food and is doing fantastic with it! She loves her fruit and her orange veggies. I have to toot my own horn a bit, I have been making her veggies homemade since Thanksgiving! I have made green beans, peas, carrots, and sweet potatoes. I have some corn to mix in with the sweet potatoes once we get back in January and I have some squash to make for her too. Its really pretty easy and WAAAAY more convenient than buying ALL of her food at the store. Now the fruit, I leave up to Gerber. I can make it easy enough, but keeping it fresh is the tricky part, so I have decided to let that go for now.
We have made the trek back to Iowa for Thanksgiving break and are (as I type) making the trek again for our Christmas break! Thanksgiving was great! Eloise wore her little turkey-day bib, ate sweet potatoes, and snuggled with her grandparents, uncle and aunt, and great-grandparents. She even got to see Chad and Tash, Ryan and Sarah, Fox, Cripe and Alyssa, and all of Tash and Chad's friends at Chad's 30th B-day bash! Eloise is quite the party girl...she hung out with the girls and fell asleep :) She and Izzy really did well on the trip up and back. Of course they both get a little antsy every so often, but all in all, do a great job! Izzy lays by her little sissy and rests her chin on Eloise's carseat. Today, she helped Eloise clean off her hand that had a little food on it still from lunch ;)
We are super excited for Eloise to see and feel snow for the first time over break and we will be taking lots of pictures while we are home. Look for more pics soon after we get back in January. I can't promise anything, but I will try! :) Here are some pics of our last couple months...Enjoy!
6 months old
Eloise and Izzy
5 months old
5 months old