10 Months Old!

Eleanor Claire is 10 months old. It is just crazy... She is a little bundle of energy and smiles. She shrieks with joy and giggles uncontrollably. She is starting to toddle around which we are definitely not ready for! We are really enjoying seeing her personality come out. Her happiness from day 1 continues and is pretty much noticed by everyone we come in contact with. It is pretty funny when we take her to the grocery store or to a restaurant how many people comment on "how happy she is!" We sure are glad she is our happy girl!

Highlights of this month:- The army crawl! Ellie sort of crawls---she more drags her self around but she can move quickly. She uses her arms and legs but doesn't pick up her belly. She just drags it along. I've been talking to her about how this is probably pretty difficult to do as she is almost 20 pounds but I'm pretty sure she is working on her arm strength.
-Pulling up- Ellie can pull herself up and loves this new "view" of life. Her favorite places to pull up are at her activity table or on people's legs. She can stand for a pretty long time and then usually plops down on her bottom.
-Visitors, visitors!!!- October was the month for visitors. Grandma Lois came first. We had a nice time working on making some invitations with her, going to the NCSU Football game and celebrating her birthday! Then came Lori and Bob to help out at the NC State Fair. Grandma and Grandpa Arlene and Lorin came at the end of October during the fair and stayed with us and Jesse, Mike and Vera came when they were here. It was great to see everyone and Ellie sure enjoyed all the attention. Ellie especially enjoys seeing her cousin!

-State Fair- We took Ellie to her very first state fair. Our family has a booth at the North Carolina and Iowa State Fair so she will probably get to spend many hours at the fair! She had a fun time riding around in her stroller. We put some pig ears on her which she didn't like too much but she did enjoy people watching and of course all the music and lights. We didn't even make her try the Chocolate Covered Bacon.
-6 Teethers...Ellie is a pro at cutting teeth. She went from 0 to 6 in about 2 weeks and didn't really even fuss about it too much. Poor girl. It doesn't look like fun.

-Zoo! We took our first trip to the zoo with Eleanor. She enjoyed the outdoors and walking around. Not sure if she saw many of the animals but we tried to point them out to her. Jason got some really awesome pictures that we are planning to hang up in her room.-Raggedy Ann- Ellie's Great Grandma Fleming made her (and Vera) a beautiful Raggedy Ann doll. It is so perfect and she loves it. It will be treasured forever....thanks Grandma!

Being a 10 month old is tiring...both for Ellie and for us!