Oh Mom!!

Ugh... gross! 

 So I decided to pretend I was a photographer one afternoon and tried to get some cute pictures of Eleanore. This is what I ended up with... along with a lot of looks that resembled.... are you out of your mind!!! I will post Eleanore's Halloween costume pictures as soon as I get them uploaded, although she was sick/crabby/angry tonight from her flu shot earlier in the day so we skipped trick or treating and opted to buy a bag of candy and let the baby go to sleep early. Since we did go trick or treating to see the grandparents last night I will still consider this Halloween a success!

Don't tell anyone I needed you to cut the hole extra big!!!! 

Okay fine.... I'll smile! 

But seriously .... Ewww!!!! 

Okay... I'm smiling can we be done yet!?! 

And... it looks like we're done! 

Oh Boy!!

Eleanore can pull herself from sitting.... to STANDING!! In the past few days since she's been doing this we have had lots of bumps on the head but then we call Auntie Shell and Eleanore forgets what she was upset about!

Sticker Face

During the day Eleanore and I do lots of activities to get her to learn certain things. For example in our ECFE class they told us to put a sticker on her nose or ours and let her practice getting it off. We started with big stickers and have worked down to small ones. The other day we played this FUN (not annoying in the least) game. Eleanore went along with it for awhile and then she decided she would just be Stickerface. Perhaps this game is annoying but she can already feed herself Cherrios so she can't complain too much :-)

Tutus and Bows

Lately I have been hard at work setting up my Etsy site so that at night when everyone goes to bed I can do a little bit of crafty and hopefully will be able to make an extra dollar or two! So here it is! There's not much on it yet, it's a work in progress!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/eleanorestreasures

Welcome to Eleanore's Playroom

Since we decided that I will be staying home full time with Eleanore I've been working on a place for us to hang out during the day! So a few weeks ago I started organizing the basement and finally got that finished this weekend! Then the other night I started moving things down and it's really started to come together! Hopefully sometime soon we will be able to paint but for now it's perfect. Today while Eleanore I were out running errands we decided to get some cheap Halloween decorations to jazz things up for the season. The spider webs seem rather fitting although Luke thought I could have saved some time by just leaving the original ones that the actual spiders worked so hard on!

There is even a craft space for me! Hopefully soon I will have the tutus, hair clips, burp cloths, etc ready to sell at my Etsy store! Wish me luck!

Eleanore and the Alpacas

We had a busy weekend. We went to the alpaca farm, apple orchard, and pumpkin patch! I forgot to take a bunch of pictures but here are a few!

Every Girl Needs A Tutu

I decided last week that it was time for me to make Eleanore a tutu. She is having her 6 month pictures this time and we wanted to have something fun for those. I asked Luke what color it should be and he said we should go all out and have it be pink. So this Monday after Eleanore's ECFE class we went to the fabric store and bought the brightest pink we could find. She chewed on it so clearly I made the right choice. And then we found some bright pink ribbon so that once it's finished it will have a bow. So anyways here is a picture of Eleanore trying on her tutu so that I could get the right size! I'll hopefully be selling these in my Etsy shop pretty soon!