I just love this little girl so much!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Snow, Shawn Johnson, and Thumb Sucking
Last Wednesday we had quite the snow storm. Overnight we got about 4 inches of snow and then during the day we got about 4-6 more inches!
A view from our front door
Luckily Andrew's school had the good sense to cancel classes for the day. It worked out really well for Andrew to have a "day off". He had been stressing about a paper he had to get done on top of a heavier-than-normal load of reading. He spent practically the whole day working on it and felt pretty confident about the research he got done. Also another shout out for Andrew...he's been working really hard on his resume and cover letters and has been applying for almost every summer internship he sees. The good news is that he's got two interviews next week. Let's hope he can get a good one!
After it had stopped snowing Andrew went out and shoveled snow around our parking spots and the sidewalk for almost 2 hours. SOmething new we've learned living in such a snowy place is that you have to shovel right after it snows otherwise it will be too frozen to do it later. I'm so glad Andrew did my parking spot for me so I could actually get out and go places without being stuck and literally snowed in.
Over the weekend Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson came to the Women's basketball game at Andrew's school. She did a little Q&A segment at half-time. She is so little-a whopping 4'11". It was so cute to see a bunch of little gymnasts in the audience all excited to get her autograph and take pictures with her after the game. Unfortunately, we didn't stay until the end of the game to get our picture taken with her.
Eleanor enjoyed her first sporting event. It was basically during her nap time and it was way too loud for her to go to sleep so she was just a little zombie, poor thing. But she loved looking around and being in a new, albeit strange, place.
Here's a video of me and Eleanor jamming out to some music before the game started.
In other news, Eleanor has been getting really good at having a routine. She sleeps through the night about once a week. That has been really nice! Her typical day goes like this... Wake up around 7:30 AM, hour nap around 9 AM, hour nap around 11:30AM, three-hour nap around 2 PM (my favorite), and then bath time around 6 and in bed by 7 PM, and usually one wake-up in the middle of the night around 4 AM. The past couple of days she hasn't really done the long nap around 2 PM because we've all been a little under the weather. Hopefully she'll get back into the swing of things soon.
Eleanor has also started sucking her little thumb. It is just too cute! It's hard to catch her in the act, but here is a glimpse.
And of course this blog wouldn't be complete with more pictures of Eleanor...
Here's another video of our little cutie. --Don't be jealous of my beautiful singing voice in the background :)
She is just getting so big! It is so fun to watch her grow and change and learn new things everyday! We just love our little Eleanor!
A view from our front door
Luckily Andrew's school had the good sense to cancel classes for the day. It worked out really well for Andrew to have a "day off". He had been stressing about a paper he had to get done on top of a heavier-than-normal load of reading. He spent practically the whole day working on it and felt pretty confident about the research he got done. Also another shout out for Andrew...he's been working really hard on his resume and cover letters and has been applying for almost every summer internship he sees. The good news is that he's got two interviews next week. Let's hope he can get a good one!
After it had stopped snowing Andrew went out and shoveled snow around our parking spots and the sidewalk for almost 2 hours. SOmething new we've learned living in such a snowy place is that you have to shovel right after it snows otherwise it will be too frozen to do it later. I'm so glad Andrew did my parking spot for me so I could actually get out and go places without being stuck and literally snowed in.
Over the weekend Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson came to the Women's basketball game at Andrew's school. She did a little Q&A segment at half-time. She is so little-a whopping 4'11". It was so cute to see a bunch of little gymnasts in the audience all excited to get her autograph and take pictures with her after the game. Unfortunately, we didn't stay until the end of the game to get our picture taken with her.
Eleanor enjoyed her first sporting event. It was basically during her nap time and it was way too loud for her to go to sleep so she was just a little zombie, poor thing. But she loved looking around and being in a new, albeit strange, place.
Here's a video of me and Eleanor jamming out to some music before the game started.
In other news, Eleanor has been getting really good at having a routine. She sleeps through the night about once a week. That has been really nice! Her typical day goes like this... Wake up around 7:30 AM, hour nap around 9 AM, hour nap around 11:30AM, three-hour nap around 2 PM (my favorite), and then bath time around 6 and in bed by 7 PM, and usually one wake-up in the middle of the night around 4 AM. The past couple of days she hasn't really done the long nap around 2 PM because we've all been a little under the weather. Hopefully she'll get back into the swing of things soon.
Eleanor has also started sucking her little thumb. It is just too cute! It's hard to catch her in the act, but here is a glimpse.
And of course this blog wouldn't be complete with more pictures of Eleanor...
Here's another video of our little cutie. --Don't be jealous of my beautiful singing voice in the background :)
She is just getting so big! It is so fun to watch her grow and change and learn new things everyday! We just love our little Eleanor!
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