...for a blog post, huh?  School began last week for Keen and me so we have been slowly but surely getting into the routine that will last the next 9 months.  A while back, I mentioned that I was going on part time at WCA where Keen teaches so we are at the same school now.  We have found a fabulous person to watch EA.  What a blessing she is!  Finding someone to watch your precious child is a lot harder than I ever thought it would be!

Ea is so funny these days.  She has just started to "cough" and look at us for attention.  She smiles and laughs easily and is so much fun.  She sits up so well and rolls everywhere if she is laying down.  She still loves her feet and loves to chew on them.  She doesn't really suck on anything anymore (except her paci) but has to chew on EVERYTHING.  I keep waiting for those teeth to pop through but nothing yet!  Her sleeping is going well and after a few bottle strikes she now happily drinks from a sippy cup when I am not nursing her.

She LOVES Boone.  If he is running outside, he cracks her up.  If she is sitting and he walks by her, she does everything she can to touch him.  He likes to sniff her and then she just cracks up!  She still likes to peer sideways to look at things.  She occasionally gets one leg up under her like a crawl but still not too close to that.  When she is sitting she will lean forward as far as she can to reach something so she will probably pop on over sometime soon.

We think she is starting to recognize her name which is so sweet.  She loves to "talk" and experiment with her voice.  She is in the process of dropping the third nap.  Its a little rough sometimes.  Some days she will take it and some days she won't.  For a bit, if her first or second nap was a little short she would take that third nap.  Not anymore.  It just depends on the day and I would say we go without the third nap about 80% of the time.  I don't mind that she doesn't take it, she just is way more pleasant if she took two other good naps!

Ok, here are some pics of the cutie!!!