And we have lift off!

This has been a busy week full of firsts at the Scoggins house!  I noticed Mary Eloise had not been sleeping as well at the beginning of the week and just blamed it on teething, but took her into the pediatrician and found she had an ear infection :(  Poor gal, you wouldn't have really known it by the way she was hamming it up and showing her tricks to the nurses and Dr. Sester and playing peek-a-boo behind the exam table. She is feeling better now :) 

M.E. is also beginning to get into the school groove and her teachers say she is so sweet!  We were eating dinner at Del Toro ( a super yummy local Mexican restaurant) and a lady walked past our table and said "Is that Mary Eloise?" Startled and puzzled, I replied "Yes" and she went on about how sweet and cute M.E. is at school.  Needless to say, a proud mama moment ensued and then M.E. did her royal princess wave for her fans. 

As we rapidly approach her birthday, she is expanding her vocabulary and will identify some animals and their sounds and really sounds like she is counting.  Mary Eloise is also no longer taking a bottle!  A big feat I was nervous about was a quite seamless transition. She loves drinking from a straw now.  She loves her cups with a straw and will also get yours too!  A new food she loves is Jello.  She will squish it thorough her fingers, eat it with her spoon and hands, and  lick it out of the cup to eat it.  She has also figured out how to eat the Buddy Fruits or the squeeze pouches of food; I'm happy for this accomplishment because she really likes them, but would squeeze the contents all over and laugh when it would squirt out everywhere.

Our biggest and most exciting news is Mary Eloise is walking!  Saturday, she took a long nap with her daddy in the morning, we went to the pool that afternoon and then she came home and crashed.  Once she woke up from her nap, we played in the den and she stood up and walked to me from across the den!  I was super excited!  Then when I was preparing dinner, she walked from the den into the kitchen.  Jason had been out running errands and when he arrived home, she toddled over to the gate to greet him!  What a wonderful Father's Day present. 

For Father's Day, Mary Eloise gave Jason a new fishing tackle box and then a sweet hand print picture she made at school.  I'm pretty jealous of the sweet handprint because I don't have one, but I know she'll make more things at school for us :) I called my Dad to wish him a happy day and M.E. got on the phone and said "Hey" to him. So sweet; she loves to pick up objects and hold them to her ear like a phone (I guess she comes by that one honestly ;)  ) 

What a wonderful week we have had!  And please excuse the mounds of clean laundry in my pictures :/ (super embarrassed)

Drinking from a straw

Walking around the den

Yummy, yummy Jell-O!