5 MONTHS OLD!

Eleanor is 5 months old this week! She is getting so big. At her doctor's appointment last week she weighed 16 pounds and was 26 1/4 inches.

So I'm usually not into the whole big flower bows thing, but I found one for pretty cheap, so I thought it would at least be fun for playing dress up. I have to admit, the second I put it on Eleanor I thought it was the cutest thing ever! I couldn't resist snapping some shots of her. Here our some of my favorites...

What a little cutie! She is so much fun and I am so thankful to have such a sweet, fun, easy, happy, healthy baby girl! We really love her a lot and are so happy she's in our family!

Time flies

It's official, Eleanor's going bald. I didn't realize how much more hair she used to have until I saw some older pictures flash on Andrew's screensaver on his laptop.

2 days old...

2 weeks old...

2 months old...

3 months old...

And then, all of a sudden, no hair
4 1/2 months old...

I still think she's pretty cute :)

Today I thought I'd take some video of my little cutie just doing normal everyday things.
First is a video of her when she wakes up. She's usually more smiley but she's been kind of sick the last couple of days.

Here's a video after she was all done eating dinner.

And there you have it, a day in the life of Eleanor.

Happy Birthday Muffy!

Today is my sister Laura's 21st birthday!
Laura and I got to be together at BYU for a little over a year...we had so much fun together. I miss hanging out with you!








Laura is so much fun and always has a smile on her face!!


Here she is with little Eleanor...

I love you! Hope you have a fun day!!

Mardi Gras Mambo

Eleanor and I escaped snowy Ohio and went home to New Orleans last week. I was a little nervous to travel alone with her and I was too cheap to pay to check my baggage, so I had to lug my suitcase and diaper bag and baby around the airports all by myself. Eleanor did really well and people (NOT the flight attendants, they weren't helpful at all but that's another story for another day) were pretty good about helping me put my bag overhead when boarding the plane.

We were there for Mardi Gras and my little brother's birthday. We had so much fun and I REALLY enjoyed wearing flip flops all week. Our church is on St. Charles Avenue, the street all the parades pass on, so we got to hang out there with friends and bbq and watch the parades. Here is a glimpse of what a mardi gras parade is like...
It's weird to think that the whole city shuts down meanwhile, the rest of the world has to go to work and school! Gotta love the big easy.
More pictures...
(lots of people dress up on mardi gras day)




Ok, Andrew said I have to explain these because he had no idea what the deal was when he saw them. Basically people make these ladders with a seat on them for little kids. Ideally, an adult stands behind the kid and they yell for beads and just hang out during the parade.



My sister Amy with Eleanor

Eleanor really got into mardi gras :)

For my little brother Jacob's birthday we got crawfish and went to the park to chow down. It's not quite crawfish season so they were pretty little. But they were still DELICIOUS! mmmm mmmmm.

We also went and picked him out some new glasses and Eleanor thought she'd pick out a pair, too.

We finally came home and had ice cream cake to celebrate Jacob's 12th birthday!

We had such a fun time and were sad to leave, BUT happy to get back to Andrew who had to go to school all week while we were gone playing.

On a side note, here is a little video of Eleanor. I tried to get a video of her sucking on her bottom lip, a new trick she's being doing lately.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are some pictures I took of our little valentine!
I just love this little girl so much!

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!