baby steps

elenora is taking steps. real steps. not falling towards me steps. she can probably take about four solid steps at a time. we were outside this afternoon before her nap and i kept placing her about three or four feet from me and letting her walk to me and she did so good! i am so proud of her. and she is so pleased with herself, too.

she's also very in to taking things in and out of other things. she has a bus that she can put little people into, and she has a cubic shape sorter with all kinds of blocks, and she spent a lot of time today carefully putting things in and out of both the bus and the cube. it's pretty cool to watch her be so intent on something like that. also, today after her nap she spent a good ten minutes just pulling her binkies out of her crib and throwing them onto the floor, and then picking them up and placing them back into the crib. nice that her attention span and her ability to amuse herself is getting longer.

we went to the library this afternoon. i got myself "the count of monte cristo." it's more pages than "war and peace," although i think the text is a good deal bigger. if i like it i think i'll go to the bookstore and get a used copy of it so i don't have to check it out of the library a million times. there's just no way i can finish 1400 pages in three weeks.

it feels good to have a new book.