Great Grandmas

We arrived in Williamsville for the NY portion of our holiday travels.  Eleanore loved spending time with Mimi (above) and Grandma (below).  It is so wonderful to celebrate the holidays with the matriarchs of my family!

North Carolina Christmas

We had a great time in NC visiting with friends of the family and enjoying the temperate weather.  Eleanore even had her very own room!  

Eleanore also hit a big milestone the day after Christmas -- she can now crawl!

Photo above is from Christmas eve and the photo below is from Christmas morning.

Baby and Santa and Baby Santa

We arrived in Burlington, NC for the first part of our Christmas vacation.  Eleanore met Santa for the first time on the 21st.  She liked putting her fingers through his long beard.  She wasn't afraid of him at all.  We will see how it goes next year... :-)

We found the little Santa hat below on a brief trip to the Harris Teeter.  It was a random find, but provided hours of amusement!

Holiday Time at the Tarry Household

Holidays in the Tarry house are a fun time!  We decorated our silver tree (in the photos above and below) and Eleanore loved to look at the lights.  We also displayed Mimi's Dickens Village for the first time -- it was the perfect festive addition!

The photo below is of a tuckered out Daddy and baby.  Apparently Christmas makes them sleepy!

Lucky Number Seven (7 Months Old!)

Eleanore is 7 months old!

Month six was all about the veggies - Eleanore has now mastered carrots, squash, sweet potato, peas, green beans, corn and avocado.  She had a little banana one day too, but I don't think she cared for the texture.  I spent some time over the Thanksgiving holiday making baby food.  I made big batches and froze them in ice cube trays.  She eats three cubes per meal - plus cereal!

She is still a little peanut weighing in at 13 lbs, 8oz the day before Thanksgiving.  But it is amazing how quickly she is filling out now that she is eating more.  She spits up a fair amount so we just started her on Prevacid to see if we can get it under control.  You will see in the photo above that she wears a bib most of the time.  I hate how it looks, but it is effective!

Eleanore is also on the move.  She can't quite crawl yet, but she can pretty much get anywhere she wants to go by rolling or scooting.  She can get up in full "crawl position", but she doesn't have the coordination to get her arms and legs in sync. 

She is working on sitting too -- if you place her just right she can go for short periods of time before falling over.  Still no teeth yet... which is good for me since she is still nursing.

 

Rockette

While my mom, Bubbe, was visiting last weekend, Eleanore received her first Christmas present - a rocking horse from her Aunt Tara!

Since Tara's horse (and Eleanore's fuzzin) is named Rocky, we dubbed her "Rockette".  We also thought it was fitting because the Rockettes are so associated with the holidays.  Plus, she is a rocking horse!

There is a little seat so Eleanore is quite stable as she bounces.  (It comes off when she gets bigger.)  There is a video of Eleanore's first ride out on our Mac gallery.