Crawling!

Well...sort of. As you'll see, Eliana can make foward progress. But her leg movements are by no means swift and clean. Her right leg, especially, seems to get in the way--instead of bending it at the knee, she likes keeping it straight, which makes the whole crawling thing awkward.

Thank goodness we've bolted the sofa table to the wall. Eliana likes to pull herself up and will grab onto any furniture that's within arm's reach. Once she gets up, you will notice she likes to shake the furniture. This table isn't very shaky, so she is just shaking herself. It works better with other stuff - she loves to make the lamp rattle on one of the end tables.

Eliana had her 9 month check up this past week. She weighed in at 19 pounds and 14 ounces. As you can see from the picture below, the fat comes in rolls around her legs. The astounding thing was her head circumference. At 18 inches around, Eliana rocketed to the 91% mark! She's got a big noggin.

And spring is finally here for good. It was in the 70's and 80's this past weekend and it looks like we're going to have a couple more days of cloud-less skies in store.

Now that the weather is really nice, Mommy took Eliana out to the neighborhood park which is only a 3 minute walk away. Eliana went on the swing all by herself for the very first time. As expected, she loved it.