Walking & Talking

Hard to believe Eilee is 13 months old!! She took her first steps in early June (right around her birthday), but in the past 2 weeks has really started taking off. We can't keep her out of anything! She follows us around the house like a little puppy and opens every cabinet, pulls out every drawer, empties every bag--you name it, she destroys it. It's very cute, but also very tiring. We are reconsidering having 10 kids. Also today, she climbed up two steps on the staircase, and made it back down on her own. I think it's the first time she even noticed the staircase.

Eilee has also become quite vocal and is saying all sorts of cute things. She says: cat, dog, nose, more, all done, shoes, toes, NO, just to name a few. They aren't perfect renditions, but they are certainly recognizable. We could use less of "NO", but I don't see that happening in the near future.

And what I am most excited about in recent Eilee achievements......her hair is long enough to put in pigtails!!! And I would love to post a picture, but she pulls them out before I can get the camera out. But you'll just have to trust me that it is super cute. Hopefully I will get a pic soon.

Enjoy the videos below of Eilee walking around.

Test blog

I'm testing a feature of blogger.com that allows us to make blog posts from your mobile phone or by email.

Bing.com (Microsoft's new search engine) has a really cool map feature, where you can see a "Bird's Eye" view of various neighborhoods. It's not the same thing as the satellite view from Google maps, but more like a helicopter's view. What's even cooler, is that you can view each house from all 4 sides. Here are a few shots of our house. You can see the rest of our neighborhood here.