Elnorra wasn't to pleased when we took her swimming for the first time! Mom and dad had fun anyway and boy was it nice to cool off and avoid most of the mosquitoes!

She is now a mobile little girl and proficient at a one knee one foot crawl as well as pulling to a stand on anything that stays still long enough. Yep, mom and dad are now Elnorra stabilizers and we have to be careful before we try to walk anywhere around the house. She can navigate over all the 3" door jams throughout the house so she can follow us anywhere she wants. She has also decided that, at 9 months, "solid" food is a good idea after all and sweet potatoes are her favorite, she'll eat those right up, but carrots, no thank you!

We just spent a week babysitting for a family of 8. Dad, mom and their 14 month old baby were in the states to help with a family emergency and we took over to make a new family. Elnorra fit right in and I'm sure she is now going to miss having all the "older siblings" around to pay so much attention to her. Ben and I will miss the 12, 10, 8, 6, and almost 4, year old children very much but we won't miss Ben's 1 1/4 hour commute and Windy's awful cold from being around 4 schools worth of germs!