Love that kid!
This letter is going in the mail Monday morning. I sure hope he replies or we'll have a disappointed 5 year old on our hands.
Elsa seems to be doing everything early. She got her first tooth at 4 months. Now she has 2 big front teeth on the bottom and their sisters on either side are coming in plus more on top. Through all this teething, she remains the smiley-est baby in town. She smiles so much that people comment on it. Even people that see her a lot. She has a way of grinning from top to bottom. She put on that bright smile, her eyes light up and she'll look away bashfully while she straightens her legs and throw herself up somehow. It's hard to describe but delightful to see.
The big news that finally got me to sit down in front of a computer in my non-working hours was that she started crawling. It's not perfect cross crawling but she can move from one place to another. She'll be on her hands and knees and move one hand/knee step and throw her chest on the floor in the direction she wants to go and then bring her hands and knees back underneath herself. Today she managed to pull out the dog treats which made Pluto pretty happy. Yesterday she was snacking on weeds while we worked in the garden. We kept plunking her back into the middle of the blanket but she managed to get to the crunchy weeds.
As for eating, she seems to have gotten the hang of that finally. She's not the enthusiastic chomper that Mathilda was but at least she's opening her mouth and getting food down with only minimal weird faces. So far she's had rice cereal, millet cereal, yogurt, avocado, bananas, summer squash, sweet potato, carrots, peach, mango and possibly something Nick gave her without my supervision.
Which reminds me that I need to go get a sweet potato out of the microwave and package it up for future meals.
Ciao
