Lousa talks

Louisa is just starting to make communicative sounds at will. You can see her focus her energy on getting the sound out. And, um, what a sound.

She does know about turn-taking in conversation, but she's got a thing or two to learn about relaxing her vocal chords.

Besides all of the questionable behavior documented below, we also did manage to have a little fun last weekend.

First, we went to Alara's birthday party. Balloons! Cake! Stickers! And...an indoor bouncy! A good time was had by all.


And we stopped at the toy store, just to see what Santa's working on this year.



It was a bit much for some of us.



But we recovered. Whew!

Bad habits

Drooling.



Ahem.



Eating in front of others.



Thumb-sucking.

From the Louisa files

Pumpkins and elections

Cozy little bear


The Haircut
Before:


After:


Boy, he is really getting the hang of that fake smile


The Higrents rendered in pumpkin


Eye infection. Sad.


Little astronaut


Tiny Frida


Gettin' some rolls


Voting together

A-swingin' and a-signin'

More introductions

Louisa is very calm as her brother learns to hold her properly







Meeting Auntie Eva


and Grandpa Larry


and Grandma again




Early October can be warm enough for smoothies


or cold enough for mittens




We went to the zoo (who's that monkey?)






Obama came to our neighborhood! We couldn't get close enough to hear him, but we saw him drive by




Louisa's got a range of expressions:
Bemused surprise


Angry incredulity


Wistful contemplation


"What's he going to do to me now?"


"I don't think so."


Devious plotting


and--I finally caught one!--the smile.

Summer's end

ETS employee picnic






Leo learning to use the camera



Louisa learning to hold her head up




Mimi and Grandpa came to visit
(bearing gifts)