Rain, Rain, Go Away

It rained for four straight days here! We're not used to so many clouds. Yesterday when [there] was a rare break in the rain, I snapped some pictures of little Elena in our backyard. That was one, I'll put the rest at the end. It's been a weird few days anyway with Andrew's job--if you haven't heard, Amazon suspended Andrew's account. So he's been essentially jobless for the last week. But, God is faithful, and hopefully it will all work out. We've started to be more earnest about applying for ministry jobs, so you can pray that one will come through and we won't have to depend on Amazon anymore!

Elena's been good--crawling all over the place! She is getting bolder and gaining more endurance. She can crawl across the whole downstairs now in search of Mommy. The barricaides we put up won't hold her in anymore! She's our little adventurer. She is pulling up on everything now, too. She can't always do it, but she sure tries--coffee table, chairs, Andrew's buckets, couches, toys, the sliding glass door--you name it, if it's taller than she is, she's tried to pull up on it. She's getting stronger and stronger, and starting to look more like a little girl.

She's consistently eating solids now. She'll eat a tablespoon of dry cereal mixed with water, about an inch worth of banana and quite a few of those little baby puffs. She loves those things. She is even working on getting them into her mouth by herself. Because she is eating solids now, I have to be careful about giving her paper--she used to just crinkle and shake, now she will eat it!

I think there might be teeth on the horizon for our little one. Yesterday she was really fussy and sticking her hands in her mouth, what looked to me like her mouth was hurting. We'll see!

In other news, we had family pictures taken last Saturday. I'll post them when we get them back! Our friend Aubrey is a photographer and graciously offered to take pictures of us. It was really fun, and I've heard that they came out great. Those will be fun to see--and my hair is done, so you can get a good look at it. :)

Today we had our MetroLife Moms Meeting. That was really fun--I wish we had them more often. But it was very exciting--Elena stayed in the nursery! We left her in the stroller, and when she started to fuss one of the workers strolled her around. Then she took a nap. Go baby! She did wake up and start to cry, but it never got so bad that they came and got me. That was a great feeling.

Here are the rest of the pictures--this was the fussy day, so not many smiles. But she did make some cute/silly expressions for the camera. :)