We eat a fair bit of toast around here, and it has become fairly endearing that whenever you say toast to Elinor, she looks down at her feet and grabs her toes.
In other positive news, we moved (down the hall) to an apartment that is approximately a million times better for our psyches than our previous abode. While it is only slightly larger, its layout is such a great improvement we can't believe that we just spent 1.5 years in that dark little box. Like what, you might ask? Well Elinor's room had been the dining area in the kitchen but now, there is a little (teeny) extra room for Elinor and the dining area is separate from the kitchen and larger which means that E still has her own little space and that Caitlin was able to move all of her crafting stuff from her Activspace back to the apartment. Which is better in that: losing Activspace more than covers the rent increase, it's fun to have the craft stuff here and, now that Caitlin is working full time, she never had time to get to the Activspace anyway.... But another great improvement is that we went from 4 windows (all on one side) that faced some trees, which while the trees were nice, it was oh so very dark and now we have have 8 windows (on three sides), so natural light and breeziness are all around! Anyway though, I know, too much detail. And... What about the baby?
There has been lots of good there, too. In the mixed blessing department, since we moved her nightly sleep has dropped from 10-11 hours to about 8-9 hours. But this may be because she usually takes 2 naps a day now! So that is all well and good. Though at 6am when she wakes up, it doesn't always seem that way. She has fully three teeth now, with a fourth one just having peaked out.
She talks on and on, though without any words (well, she does still say "thanks" and she did say "kiss" once). But she understands a fair bit: bottle, kiss, hug, toes, she knows what those mean. And she still practices her dancing all day long, doing some pretty crazy moves. I even witnessed a full-on "two-arm barrel-roll" from the disco dancing days last week. And though she'll dance to any music with a rhythm, the sure ticket to watching her dance is the song that the the plastic "piggy bank" plays, though it works to sing it too. It goes something like:
I'm a piggy bank
with coins big and small
in lots of colors
you can learn them all
we've got red and yellow
we've got orange and blue
what's your favorite color
there're some green ones too!
let's count the coins
from one to ten
...
(the song continues, but she always starts it over at this point)
That's about all for an update... Well, that and some pictures...
