For about a week now, Eleanor’s been walking! On April 9th she took four steps, though she didn’t realize she had done it. Every day after that she took a few more, and now she totters everywhere! It is amazing to both of us how quickly she went from just barely taking steps to out-and-out walking. She’ll even “run” a bit if she knows she has somewhere safe to land, like the side of the couch.
I started taking her to toddler classes a few weeks ago, at the local Gymboree. She loves it! It takes her about 15 minutes each time to warm up, but then she gets into it. And I love having somewhere to go with other grown people, haha! I’ve been trying to take her to story time at our library as well, but she suddenly decided that 10:15am (when it’s supposed to start) is her new favorite nap time. Ah well. Wish they had a later option for this age set.
In other news, we took a little trip to Forks, WA (the home of Twilight) with my folks a couple weeks ago, which was fun. We drove around the Olympic Peninsula checking out beaches and such, and went on a little hike at Cape Flattery, which is the northernmost tip of WA state. It was absolutely gorgeous! We lucked out and had sunny weather the whole time.
Now we’re doing some home improvement. I’ve decided that I’ve had enough of carpet in our main living areas – it’s always disgusted me, but now especially with Eleanor on it all the time – so we’re starting to put hardwood floors in (bamboo). We’re starting on one of the smaller rooms, since we don’t exactly know what we’re doing yet. Plus it ain’t cheap! Hopefully it’ll go well and we can move on to the other rooms. I also want to put in a second bath tub though, and we need to do some closet work (for which we already have most of the materials), so the rest of the floors might be a while. It’s nice to finally be doing work on the house again, though! We took an almost two year hiatus with my pgcy and then Eleanor being born. We bought this house in ‘05 knowing it needed work, so not doing anything for half the time we’ve been here has been a little aggravating. It was for a very good cause though. ; )
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Melissa // April 17, 2009 at 2:04 am |
Congratulations on Eleanor’s first steps!
I hear you about the home renovations. We’ve had some projects on the back burner as well that we’re hoping to get started this spring. Sometimes it’s just so overwhelming to get these projects started, but it’s always so worth it in the end.
Kim from iVillage // April 17, 2009 at 5:51 pm |
YAY for Eleanor walking! That’s so exciting!
We have the same issue about home renovation.. We have tiles to lay and hopefully also some rooms to convert from carpet to hardwood as well
but that’s been on the back burner b/c of our upcoming layoff. *sigh* Hopefully soon we’ll be able to start again, though.. GL with yours! It’s fun when you have time and NRG!