Less than a month

until this little person is one year old!

Can you believe it?? I can't. She is just getting too big. It is so fun to watch her little personality. Too bad every time I put a camera in her face she looks at me like I'm crazy or like she's scared so it's hard to capture just how cute her expressions are.
Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Good thing she's still herself for movies. Here's a clip of our little Cougar fan...



She's still too much of a scaredy-cat to walk by herself, but she loves cruising along the furniture.

She loves books, especially her baby book, and sometimes if I'm not watching carefully she likes to tear paper, like she did to one of my cookbooks she found in one of the kitchen drawers - playing/exploring in the kitchen is also a new development.

I really love spending all day everyday with Eleanor. She is so much fun and I think she's so cute! She says mama and dada, although I'm not sure how purposeful it is when she says them. But I'm pretty sure she can say hi and yum and she knows what they mean. Everywhere we go she just waves at everybody, especially other little kids. She's a friendly little person and it makes me so sad when people don't wave back to her. She also gets excited when she sees me putting my shoes on because she knows that means we're going somewhere. She isn't really into baby food anymore. Gerber Graduates are more her thing. Stuff like baby ravioli and lasagna and chicken and noodles. She also likes mandarin oranges, baby cheese puffs and cheerios. She hates getting her face and hands cleaned when she's done eating though. She also hates getting dressed. She is such a busy little girl. She's even figured out how to come down the stairs. She goes up and down them about 2 times a day. She loves to watch Mary Poppins sing Spoonful of Sugar and she even tries to snap her fingers. We love our little Eleanor!