Standing and the Library

Elise always continues to amaze us! Since learning to crawl, life has seemed to have just taken off! Elise is learning to pull into a standing position. She's mastered objects that are lower to the ground but with some help, can pull up on taller things. Today she mastered climbing the one step that separates our greatroom and kitchen without any help. In fact, we haven't even tried giving her the idea that it could be done since up until now, the greatroom was its own little 'playpen'. Now with her explorations, we're quick to pick up the dog dishes (or other contraband) when she makes a beeline towards them. She giggles and laughs as she heads towards them. Elise even crawled up into our coffee table.. of course Garth observed to make sure all was well.




Yesterday I took Elise to the downtown Toledo library for her first of two H1N1 vaccines. Since the line was almost nonexistent, we spent some extra time checking out the children's library on the second floor. The toddler's room had thousands of board books on shelves along the floor-- making it so much fun to pull one book after another onto the ground. She also enjoyed the salt water fish tank so much that she threw a fit when it was time to go. Elise could have stayed all day! It was a fun adventure.

Elise has also begun turn taking. She'll play with a toy and then offer it up to whoever is nearby to engage them. It's very sweet. I've even starting 'training' her to give me fuzz and hair that she finds on the ground (rather than eating them!). It's much appreciated. With all the crawling and fuzz collecting, I'm even vacuuming more than my usual once a day! Maybe I should purchase a Roomba! On another side note, we are getting our fifth tooth!