Eleanor is so fun these days. A few nights ago, she just took off and started walking everywhere! She did a couple of laps of unassisted walking (around the kitchen/living room).
She is still uncertain of walking on her own and MUCH prefers her carts and really for us to hold her fingers, but she will definitely take unassisted steps here and there to get to something she really wants. For the most part, crawling is still much more efficient for her.
She is doing better with her potty training and early last week started showing me a new "sign", which is her "potty" sign. She doesn't do the fingers, but she does open hand and shakes her hand back and forth... when she showed me and actually went "shii shii" on the potty... BIG DAY!!! She still doesn't tell us reliably, but it's another step in the right direction and we are very happy for that!
Eleanor is VERY into reading while on the potty. She loves a finger signs book that I got at the libary... basically songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", "The Wheels on the Bus", etc. She knows/participates in several of the songs. "Rows" with the Row Your Boat Song... bounces UP and DOWN for the Wheels on the Bus, touches her head for the "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"... and I think one of the cutest is how she shakes her finger "no" like I have been showing her for Monkey's Jumping on the Bed. ADORABLE!! She uses that one out of context, too!
News on the house front... supposedly an approval letter exists from lienholder 1... now we just need to "find" said letter.
