Email: 9 month update

October 14, 2007

Dan took some adorable pictures yesterday of Elena's first time taking a bath in the big tub.  Up until then, she was still taking a bath in the little plastic baby tub because it was easier that way until she started to try to stand up inside it.  Anyway - I didn't want to post these naked pics on the blog, but you all had to see her cute little tush (is that how it's spelled?).  I guess I will just make this her 9 month email since she'll be 9 months on Wednesday. 

New developments:
Elena recently learned how to spit out her food.  We had been lucky for so long.  A few days ago she realized that if she tried to keep her lips sealed but breathed out that the food would exit and it would make a pretty cool sound.  I think she does it whenever I feed her baby food to encourage me to give her more table food.  She is loving everything solid.  She's been eating bananas, peaches, cooked carrots, different crackers and cereals, and cottage cheese.  I am slowly trying to get over my fear that she may choke.  She only comes close if I put too much food in front of her - she'll shove it all in.
She still scoots around the same way that she has been for the last two months, but we have highs hopes that she'll lift her rear and crawl someday soon.  She is starting to pull up on things.  Mostly onto her knees, but once she pulled up on the coffee table until she was standing. 
Elena has a new sound.  It is kind of like she is singing the Tarzan yell now that I think of it.  She decided that today during church was the premium time to perfect it.  Everyone in the Spanish branch just loves her, so I know they don't mind, but it was disruptive and we had to keep taking her out.  At least it's a happy sound.
The older she gets, the more she loves books.  She will sit and turn pages back and forth for minutes at a time.  "Minutes" may not sound like much, but normally she's very used to one-on-one time and not so keen on alone time.  Her favorite alone activity besides reading is to scoot over to one of the bookcases in the house and to pull all the books off the bottom shelf.  She's very good at it actually; she's not one to back down from challenge.  She'll try each book until she finds the weakest link that will pull out.
Elena has starting giving besitos (kisses) not just to people, but also to her books.  She'll kiss the animals and the pictures of people and then look up smiling proudly, so that we'll say, "Aww, you are so sweet."  tonight before bed, she was kissing Dan's face in an album over and over.  It was adorable!

Those are the big updates for the month I guess.  I hope that you all have a good week and stay tuned to thedisonfamily.blogspot.com to see what we are all up to.