ba ba ba . . .BA!

Eleanor has a definite favorite word. Ba! On occasion she will say mama or dada most of her talking the last week or so has been ba. It is not rare for her to carry on with a string of 20+ bas at a time punctuated with the occasional BA! She is trying to communicate with us and her string of bas sound like sentences or at least lyrics from a Bob Dylan song. Nora has learned that if she points at something ans says ba (or BA!) Dad will carry her in the direction she is pointing and explain the flower/tree/fence/dog toy we end up examining. Here are some cute pictures for the first day of August.
Eleanor loves music and if she hears it or hears us singing she will clap her hands. It is bad to reinforce dad's penchant for singing along with commercials with this cute behavior.

Her is Nora talking on her "phone" which you folks might call a boat. She loves watching us talk on the phone and plays with our phones when we let her. If we don;t have a real phone handy she creates her own. Usually she tells the person on the other end "bababa" and then hands the phone to us saying "BA!".

Although she is an early riser sometimes she'll fall back to sleep in our bed so we can grab some extra zs. Wendy caught me and Eleanor sleeping one morning before work.

Nora also likes to climb in or on anything she can. Here she is in Mookie's toy bin. His toys are much more interesting and she loves to get them out and hold them up to him. As you can see from the picture she hardly has any toys of her own.

Her she is playing in her ducky at bath time.