First Fake Smile!

So we have had a few firsts around here lately. First, there is Samantha's first time in her exersaucer. She took to it like a pro. Barely falling over and already almost too tall for the first height setting. She has a kung fu grip on anything that comes close to her little fast hands. She takes hold, hard and fast and instantly pulls whatever she has palmed into her mouth.



And then, we put Elliot to bed after her bath without combing her unruly mane. Somehow the hair styling fairies visited her in the night and she woke with a hairdo we would have paid money to style ... we took out the camera, seriously, did not comb a lock and tried to get some pics. She resisted at first, was confused and then broke into her very first, and caught on film, FAKE SMILE! Oh, the joys of photos to come.





There it is. In all its fake-smile glory.

Below, Elliot shows Samantha some crib tricks while decked out in matching fishy pjs.



Another thing we did not make up: Elliot LOVES broccoli. She is starting to love it less. As in eating only half a head at a sitting instead of the full, but we were able to capture some of it while she is still in this phase. Here she is with a little after-dinner dessert of broccoli cone. Stay tuned of the video of same event.


Every morning, like clockwork, Elliot is up at 5AM (sometimes earlier, UUGGGHHH!) and is full of energy. Like here, when we again let her coax us into allowing her in our bed only to find out, she is not going back to sleep at all, but instead going to bounce all around us and Samantha. Sammy J just wants to go back to sleep...but not as much as mommy & daddy do!


And then when it is time to leave for school, Elliot is all tuckered out and wants to spend some quality time with Sheffield - who can sleep through just about anything and is looking a little annoyed to be woken to be somebody's pillow.