Happy rolling

And here's Eliza showing her latest and greatest version of rolling over. Much happier this time.

Eliza's Second Hockey Game

We haven't gotten out to as many Yale hockey games as last year for some reason. We can't quite put our finger on it, but our time seems to be spent elsewhere... But we were able to carve out a Saturday night into our schedules, and able to get a great group of friends to join in, too! See:


Eliza seems to like hockey. And by like, we mean her eyes are constantly wide with what we presume to be stimulation overload. But she is certainly entertained for the entirety of the game.

Certainly the most exciting time of the game was getting hit by a puck. Just remember, if you are going to record some fast hockey action and are looking at your viewscreen to frame the play, make sure you have one eye on the puck:

Eliza's first words! Well, almost...

Erika here. I'm not witty like Deacon, so I'll keep it brief. Just wanted folks to see Eliza cooing last week. She's a happy girl! Now if we could only get her to sleep through the night...

Did you just see that?

We thought we were in for a night of some light reading, maybe some activity time, another chance for Eliza to spit out approximately 70% of the vitamins we give her and, if we were lucky, another blissful night of mostly uninterrupted sleep. Eliza had other plans. We had seen hints that she might be in for a big developmental milestone, but we didn't know it would come so quickly! So, we present as proof the Zapruder film of baby-rolling-over footage. Also she's pretty much crying the entire time so I set it to what I think is a more appropriate soundtrack...

Eliza is a Recluse

Our pediatricians have put the fear of H1N1 in us; we're told that if Eliza is exposed to a group of 5 or more strangers in a public area that she'll catch the plague and will suffer developmental consequences that will restrict her to a school like Vassar. The horror! Don't fret - soon enough we'll have some pictures of Eliza (and, maybe us) that aren't in our humble abode. In the meantime you will all just have to take the ones at good old Princess Drive.

"Sup."


Eliza knows how to get comfortable.


We did ask Leigh to sign a standard release so we could use her pic.


Not our Christmas card. But it could have been!


Some morning activity time with Mommy and Grammie...


...which Eliza finds hilarious!


Quite a stare and...


...quite a smile!


Busy day! Quality napping time!

Faces

Eliza will go through an entire 3 act play's worth of facial expressions in the time it takes for her to make a fresh diaper...not so fresh. That is, to say, rather quickly. Here are some of our favorites from the past couple of weeks!

Surprised:


Unhappy:


Pondering:


Approving:


Hysterically laughing at something we said:


And finally, one of our favorites - sleepy:

Update!

An update of sorts, because it will be mostly pictures. That seems to be what the people want, as opposed to the two of us going on and on about diapers, late-night discussions with Eliza about how we sleep at night, baby clothes, seriously considering buying stock in whoever makes baby wipes and keeping her sequestered from the omnipresent H1N1 virus.

So, on to what people care about: new(ish) pictures:

1st Bath and not happy about it.

Future Wildcat?

Future Mary Washington roommates?

Eliza needs a matching #12 jersey!

All ready for her 2nd Thanksgiving!