Oh My God...

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted anything. Things have been BUSY over here!

Here's what's new:

Tourist season has begun! We still don't have a lot of people who wear socks and sandals tourists yet but they're slowly arriving, so we've been madly trying to get the restaurant looking fresh and new. As of today, absolutely every surface in the place as been scrubbed, sanitized, polished, painted, you name it, it's all been done.

I also started a new job this week. It's just for a few weeks but it's SO much fun and exactly what I would like to be doing over here. I'm teaching English to 2 amazing little girls for 3 hours a day, everyday. They're 4 and 8, and to be quite honest I think I'm learning more than they are. Don't get me wrong, I think I'm a pretty great teacher but these girls have really given me some perspective as for what I'm in for in the next few years. Here's a conversation I had with the little one today:

Me: Mika, can you count to 10 for me?
Mika: Yep. 1, 2, 3, 4....I'm hungry!
Me: Ok sweetie, we can call your mom for a snack but can you just count to 10 for me first please?
Mika: No, I want to practice my letters instead
Me: Great! We're going to practice your letters as soon as you finish counting to 10. Can we try again?
Mika: Fine! 1, 2...I have to pee
Me: (*sigh*) Ok, go pee but hurry back
Mika: No, I don't have to pee but I'm huuuuungry!
Me: Lets just count to 10 and then you can take a break and have a snack. I'll count with you ok? Are you ready? 1.....
Mika: I already know my numbers Tara, you don't have to make me count. Listen! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, eleventeen, fiveteen, eight teen, nineteen, twenty, a hundred. See, I can count to a hundred so can I practice my letters now?
Me: Yeah we can do your letters now
Mika: But I don't waaaaant to, can I take a break now?
Me: Mika, we've been in class for 20 minutes...
Mika: Wow that's a lot! I'm going to get some cheese...

So that's my new job! It takes a lot a patience but it's so much fun, we laugh almost the whole time and honestly, there really isn't anything cuter than a 4 year old saying "eleventeen" with so much confidence. Oh and today I wrote the numbers from 1 - 20 for her,  but she didn't like the way I wrote my 1's so she drew a bunch of number 1's on a piece of paper for me and told me to go home and practice. Hilarious!

On top of all of this we're planning Eleni's baptism as well. Well I'm not actually doing any of the planning because I don't have the slightest idea about these kind of things, but it's happening around me and I'm getting filled in as we go. As far as I know right now it will be on the 8th or 9th of May, Olympia and Yorgos are off to Mytilini tomorrow to buy all the baptism-type stuff we will need and Olympia gave us her guest list today.....this is just HER guest list....do you want to guess how many people are on it???? Well you can't really because we're not even really sure but the number of actual names on the list is over 100, BUT most of these names are representing an entire family! So while an invitation is being sent out to this one name on the list, it actually counts for like 2 - 5 or more people. Antonis' guess is that her list is actually about 250 - 300 people.....yeah. Now you know why I titled this one Oh My God.

Oh My God I'm about to have My Big Fat Greek Baptism........

Stay tuned for Oh My God part 2...

So that's about it really. Eleni is cuter and cuter everyday. She's trying really hard to stand up without holding onto anything so my little 8 month old is very nearly walking! Still no teeth, but she's almost walking! And she said Papou today, so that made Yorgos very happy. Her crawling skills are amazing, she's even going upstairs now. She hasn't tried going down yet but she's a master at going up. Lately she's been a dancing machine and she's also learned how to wave.....the waving has been incorporated into some of the dance moves which I think is genius. I might try that one out myself actually.

That's all for now! I'll try not to leave so much time between now and the next post but we'll see how busy things get. I'll definitely have something for you about the baptism but I'll try to write again before that.

For now here are a few photos, again taken by our very good friend Torsten. I have some others that I want to share with you but they haven't uploaded properly to my computer so I have to try again...more technology issues. What else is new?? Anyway, here are some beautiful photos by Torsten from Monday:

I love this one. I can't even make a joke about it, it's too beautiful

Having a cuddle after her afternoon bottle

Talking to Theos Lefteris

My handsome hubby looking tired but happy

And my favourite! Shoulder rides are her favourite because she loves to pull hair, as you can see

So that's us lately. Hope you're all well and we'll talk to you soon!!

Mama!

The funniest thing just happened...

So today I planned to take a bunch of pictures of Eleni so I could update the blog and have something for you to look at....since I know you guys don't come here for the quality literature...anyway, but last night was a really rough night for our little LenLen and she ended up sleeping most of today because of it (teething again, poor muffin...lets hope those teeth finally pop through this time!). So anyway, I couldn't take any pictures of her because she was sleeping....unless I managed to whip out my camera during the poop disaster this morning but that wouldn't be very nice for any of us. So I figured that today would be a good day to finally show you the change table we had built for Eleni (to go in her room which still isn't a bedroom at all...I'm just going to take a deep breath now and let that issue go for today). You remember the change table we ordered back in the beginning of August just before she was born? Hang on...I need to take another deep breath....it's not that big of a deal that it took 7 MONTHS TO BUILD THIS THING!!! Oh right, I was going to take a deep breath........I'll get back to the change table story once I calm down about it. It kind of ties into the poop disaster story...

Getting to the point finally, I couldn't take any pictures of Eleni today so instead I took a few pictures of the new change table, then when I went to upload the 3 pictures of the change table it says I have 50-something photos on my memory card. Huh? Where the heck did I get 50 more pictures from? It turns out Antonis and Eleni were playing with the camera yesterday morning while they let me sleep in and didn't tell me about it, so I just spent the last 10 minutes laughing my butt off at my goofy little family that take secret pictures during playtime. They're just too cute!

Now, before I get into the change table/poop incident story and before I upload a ton of pictures, something else happened today that was SO awesome......

Eleni's saying Mama!!!!!!!!!!

Yayyyyyyy! I could have done a back flip when she said it! So now she says Mama and Baba (and sometimes Dada or Dad but mostly she chooses the Greek version for him). I'm so proud of her! A few times though when she was a bit excited she got a little confused and mixed the 2 together...and that came out as Bum. Anyway, she's still totally amazing even if she calls us Bum sometimes.... 

So, where to start? I'll give you the pictures of the change table first and tell you about that...

7 months later...maybe it's 7 1/2 but who's counting??..and we finally have a place to change Eleni's diaper other than the floor, our bed or the couch

These are those cute stickers you can get for your walls but I decided to put them on here so Eleni could have something to distract her from wiggling around to look at. My Mom picked up a bunch of them for the walls in her room but I had a bunch left over, and they fit perfectly here if I do say so myself!

Tons of storage space!! Yay! Finally we have somewhere to store all of her things

So that's the change table we've been waiting for. But there's just one problem: 

WE CAN'T CHANGE HER DIAPER ON IT!

Since Eleni picked up the sport of extreme crawling, diaper changing has become an absolute nightmare! The minute you lay her down on her back, she's flipping around onto her front and she takes off!! Obviously that means it's totally impossible to change her here because she's just trying to crawl off of it the whole time, which is terrifying! So basically we had maybe 2 weeks of use out of this thing........awesome.

But I do appreciate that we can fit all of her stuff in here finally, instead of keeping it piled up all over the house like it used to be. I guess I'll just focus on that so I don't freak out about how useful it WOULD have been had we gotten it on time.....but that's Greece for ya. Siga siga (slowly slowly), lets drink another coffee and smoke 10 more cigarettes, then we'll talk about getting to it tomorrow....

Now the poop disaster.....you can probably guess by now where I'm about to go with this. Don't worry, I'll hold back on the graphic details. 

This morning after breakfast it was evident that it was time for a diaper change. Keep in mind that we're now eating solids. Also keep in mind (without getting too graphic) that that doesn't necessarily mean that what you get in the end is solid. In fact it almost never is. What it DOES mean is there's just a heck of a lot of it now! And since we can't change her on the change table because we're worried she's going to try to sky dive off of it, we put her down on the floor on her changing pillow. So here's what happened today, although this story is pretty similar to what's happened every single morning for the last 2 weeks...I get her pajamas off, that's all fine....I open her diaper, that's fine too....but as soon as I grab the wipes to start cleaning her up, she flips around to her stomach and starts crawling away. And did I mention how fast she is?? And sometimes she sits down and then she gets up again and crawls some more... Now you try to catch a child covered in poop without getting yourself and everything else covered in it as well! It's not an easy task, let me tell you! So I finally catch her and I put her back down to wash her. But she's kicking and trying to roll around, and that's when I realize that not all of the poop has stayed inside the diaper. In fact I'd say about 50% of it has found it's way north of the waistband (besides what is everywhere else by this time). Fantastic! So I yell for Antonis:

Me: BABY!!!!!

Antonis: What happened?!

Me: Get in here quick!!

Me: HURRY!!!!

Antonis: Is she ok? What happened? Is she hurt? 

Me: No but there's poop EVERYWHERE! It's on her clothes, it's on the changing pillow, it's on her foot, there's some in her arm pit don't ask me how that got there and OH MY GOD IT'S ON MY HAND!!! IT'S ON MY HAAAAND!!!! I need you to hold her down so she doesn't get it on the last few things in the house that are still clean!!!

Antonis: Oh fuck.

Me: I think 'shit' would be the more appropriate curse word to use right now....

Eleni is going to kill me when she reads this one day......

Anyway, so we finally managed to clean her up, put on a new diaper and clean clothes but it was a team effort and an extremely stressful 15 minutes. Yes, it seriously took 15 minutes. And that's just how long it took to deal with her! That does not include the time it took to clean everything else that was hit in the process!

Seriously, she's going to disown me after she reads this one.....no actually, I'm going to have to remember to delete this one so she doesn't know it ever existed so lets keep that last story between us.... 

Ok so lets end today's post on a much nicer note than poop. Here are all the pictures from the secret photo shoot Eleni and Baba had yesterday morning while I was snoring in the next room, completely oblivious to the super fun time they were having:

Announcement!

I figured I better not make you wait any longer for this announcement I teased you with in my last post. I don't think I can handle anymore threatening emails! Just kidding, there weren't any threatening messages...just a little verbal abuse and some name calling, no big deal. But I fully admit I had it coming.

Before I tell you what's up, first I want to share with you some interesting statistics. I did actually get a lot of messages about this, and everyone who wrote to me had a guess as to what this announcement may be. 

Here are your guesses and the percentage of how often that guess occurred:

"Are you pregnant again?!".......100% 

Seriously, 100% of you who wrote to me about this think that I'm about to tell you I'm pregnant again.

Here's another statistic:

YOU WERE ALL 100% WRONG! 

But good try, better luck next time!

No, I am NOT pregnant again! Sure I might still wear the maternity jeans every now and then but that does not mean I'm growing baby #2....it's simply because I still have a rather Kardashian-esque booty. That's all! But I have to say, I did find it pretty funny you all thought the same thing.

So here is the announcement that shockingly, none of you guessed:

WE'RE COMING TO CANADA!!!!!!

Wooooooo hoooooooo!!!!!! There isn't enough room on this page for the number of exclamation marks needed after that 'Woo hoo', that's how excited I am!

Before I get too carried away, we don't have all of the details worked out just yet, but here is what we DO know:

• Sometime between mid October and mid November Eleni and I will be coming home to stay with my parents until probably sometime in April
• Why? Because I have a massive student loan payment I have to pay every month, and considering this is a summer holiday destination, it's not that easy to make the payments during the winter months when we don't have any tourists....SO the bottom line is that I need a job and there just aren't any winter jobs for me around here that would cover that payment

So at this point, that is all we know for sure. We're hoping that Antonis can come as well but we'll have to talk about what's going to happen with the restaurant over the winter....should we get someone else to come in and work for him? Could Lefteris and their parents handle it by themselves? Should we just save our butts off this summer so we can pay 5 or 6 months of rent and then close the place until next season? Maybe Lefteris will want to come with us and find a job too? Maybe none of these ideas will work and Antonis will have to stay here while we go to Canada? We don't know. But we DO know that Eleni and I will be there when the tourist season ends this year and we'll come back to Greece to get things ready for the beginning of the next season. And that will likely mean November to April, but we'll have to see how the season goes...maybe it will end earlier or later than usual, we don't know yet...and it also depends on when Greek Easter is next year because we'll need to be back here in time for that. 

So no, the news isn't quite as big as announcing a pregnancy but did I still manage to shock you? Are you excited????? I'm excited! Well, I'm not going to be that excited if Antonis can't come with us but I'm sure we'll figure something out, so for now I'm pretty excited!! I can't wait to introduce Eleni to everyone! And she can't wait to meet you!

I'll be looking for part-time work so please keep your ears and eyes open and let me know if you hear of anything. I need to stay on the island because I want my Mom to take care of Eleni while I'm working, but since I know I'm only going to be there for about 6 months I'm not going to be too picky about what job I take. Ideally I'd like to get a couple of contracts to work with children with autism or other special needs, but usually that requires a full year commitment which I definitely won't be able to do. But you never know, something might work out with that which would be great. Otherwise, I've always loved working at gyms. And I don't like to brag but I'm kind of a legend in the waitressing scene....

Anyway, that's what's going on and I'll keep you all updated as decisions and plans progress!

Just a quick update about Eleni......I think she's decided that crawling isn't good enough for her because she's been spending most of her time pulling herself up to standing on EVERYTHING! She's also started babbling a lot. Her first one was "Dadadadadadada" and now it's "Baba!Baba!Baba!" so it seems as though after everything I do for her, Baba is her favourite parent. I'm not worried about it though....I'm pretty sure I'm going to be way better at playing Barbies than he is so I still have a chance at first place yet!

Here's a few photos from yesterday. Eleni and I went to the restaurant in the afternoon to visit Baba. She also met a horse for the first time yesterday but since I have a pretty intense (and irrational) phobia of horses, I was more focused on not being trampled, kicked or bitten then on taking pictures at that moment....but here's a few that Antonis and I took from the safety of inside the restaurant, far away from any giant, man-eating Clydesdales

Feeding time! 

I didn't know I was in the picture so I'm not looking particularly happy here, but I really was! 

I'm also not wearing any make-up so I hope I don't scare any of you!

Multitasking! Eating and trying to steal the camera away from Baba

Now we're both totally oblivious to Baba's photoshoot

Can I have it please? I promise I won't chew or drool on it!

Yiayia and Papous bought Eleni a walker last week...these are actually banned in Canada and you can't buy them anywhere because of how dangerous they are so I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. 

But she's not very good at it yet anyway and there weren't any stairs or cliffs around so it seemed to be ok at this particular moment.

Baba, I'm going to try really hard to get over there and when I get there, 

THAT CAMERA IS MINE!

This one's my favourtite!

Our budding chef, helping her Theo Lefteris in the kitchen

Type to you soon!

We're Crawling!!!

Just when I thought we were settling in nicely to a new routine, Eleni decided to pick up a new sport:

EXTREME CRAWLING!

I'm sure you're all familiar with regular crawling, but extreme crawling takes things to a whole other level! It's fast, it's reckless, and it takes you places you don't belong!

For the last few weeks Eleni's been testing the crawling waters....getting into position, trying a step here and there, falling down here and there. Oddly enough she mastered crawling backwards right away but going forward seemed to pose a bit of a challenge for her. But Thursday morning, as I was watching from the kitchen, she took one step...then she took a second step...then a third.....then she turned around to look at me, shrieked with laughter and TOOK OFF at hyper speed toward the tv stand with all it's hanging wires and interesting boxes with flashing lights (the modem, and various other internet, tv and telephone boxes and connections and such...whatever that stuff is called...in my new mommy language this stuff is just called DANGER!) 

So once again Eleni has managed to teach me how naive I am about parenthood. I've been encouraging her to crawl, thinking that she'd just toddle around a little, quietly and thoughtfully observing her environment from a new perspective.....What a fool!!! 

She's so fast you can't even take your eyes off of her for a second or she'll be in a whole other room of the house doing something completely destructive like emptying bookshelves, ripping electrical chords out of the wall, pushing over anything that's in a standing position. I think I even caught her in the beginning stages of building a small fire this morning. Seriously, anything that she should not do, or should not touch....she's doing it and/or touching it. And not in a nice or safe way either, she's literally trying to break everything in the house into a million tiny pieces. And then she laughs about it. 

Don't be fooled by this sweet little face. She's a danger to herself and society. And she's on the loose!

I've had 15 heart attacks in the last 4 days. I'm very proud of her, but holy man I'm a nervous wreck! The problem is that she started crawling about a week before we'd planned to baby proof the whole house. Figures! So now I'm running behind her 24/7 and baby proofing as I go, which, let me tell you, this is so NOT the way to do it! Looking back, I probably should have baby proofed everything around this time last year. But of course I didn't and once again I'm learning the hard way. C'est la vie! This week is Carnivale so Antonis has been really busy at the restaurant...this means I have one more day of following Eleni around with a safety net and fire extinguisher, and then Antonis will be able to help me get this place into Fort Knox-like security. By Tuesday I should be able to breathe again....

So I mentioned that it's Carnivale over here right now. In Greek it's actually called Apokries, which literally means "good bye to meat", because following Apokries we have Lent, which is supposed to be a time of fasting and sacrifice. I should probably explain this a little better, but I'll keep it short and to the point:

Basically, when Lent begins you turn into a vegetarian until Easter, and after that you can return to your heathen ways. Before Lent, this 3 weeks of Apokries, you're supposed to eat and drink and act like an ass as much as possible because for the next 40 days (Lent) you're gonna have to act like a saint, which is really hard to do so theoretically, if you let yourself go for Apokries, you should be able to handle Lent. Does that make sense? So we have a 3 week free pass to do whatever we want (Apokries/Carnivale)....with costumes involved by the way....then there's 40 days where you can't do a damn thing you want (Lent), and then Easter arrives and life goes back to normal.

So that's just a very short, non-religious description of what this holiday is all about. But anyway, there's people wandering around in costumes right now because it's Apokries.....Eleni was a strawberry....

She absolutely LOVES her little tutu with the strawberries on it! She kept picking it up to show everyone while saying "Da!" "Da!" It was so cute!

Yiayia and Papous with our froulitsa (little strawberry)

So sweet!

Tomorrow is Kathara Deftera which means Clean Monday, so it's the beginning of Lent but there's still some Carnival stuff happening around so Eleni and I are going to check that out with Maria and Michaela. I'll bring the camera along and tell you what happens because I've never actually gotten involved in the family stuff around here for Apokries...

If it's warm enough maybe Eleni will wear her strawberry costume again but we'll see what the weather's like. At least I got some pictures of her in it today just in case it rains tomorrow.....

So other than the crawling and the holiday, Papous is much better! Again! He went to Athens to have his pacemaker adjusted, again, and now he's back to his old self. He says he has some pain in his legs though and can't walk as well as he used to but seriously...he's 93! It's not surprising he has a bit of pain here and there. I'm 32 and I complain about my aches and pains. He's almost 3 times my age!

I also have a pretty big announcement to make but I think I'm going to save that for my next post............

Good night!

Cauliflower? Yuck!

Hi again!

Eleni seems to be having a nice long nap so I managed to get to this a bit sooner than expected. If you've opened this post first, just so you know I also added another blog post earlier today that's full of pictures of our gorgeous little 6 month old so make sure you check those out. She's growing so fast and changing so much now, it crazy to compare what she looks like and what she can do today to what she was like her first few months!

So Blogger has created a new way to link videos onto your blog...it seems to be a lot faster and easier but we'll see if this actually works because we all know how this kind of crap and I just never seem to be able to get it together. Please let me know if you have trouble getting this video to play and I'll just do things the now 'old fashioned way' and post the YouTube link for you. This is from yesterday, Eleni's reaction to a brand new taste: CAULIFLOWER! Cauliflower's one of my fav's, but I don't think Eleni agrees....

So far she's tried carrots, banana, apple, rice cereal and now cauliflower. Banana's are the favourite, carrots and apples we can get down without a fight but not much enthusiasm either, but rice cereal and cauliflower? No dice! She gags, she pushes the spoon away, she spits and she gets really angry with me. It's kind of funny when she gets angry about it though, she yells at me in her baby babble which sounds a lot like an obnoxiously drunk sailor. She was a bit easier on me this day, the babble sounded more like a calm lecture rather than a verbal ass kicking. I guess she's trying a new approach. I'm really glad she's decided to give up the cursing. The next veggie we're going to try is potatoes...I'll let you know how that goes. It shouldn't be too much of a problem since they don't have a strong taste. And here's hoping that it goes so well that I can use them as a base to mix in other things like pureed peas, spinach, and whatever other vegetable that I'm sure if I tried to give to her straight they'd just be flung right back in my face. That reminds me, I should really look into some safety goggles and possibly a hair net......

As usual, not too much is new around here. Eleni is still trying very hard to crawl and she's getting closer but it will still be a little while yet. Although yesterday I put her down on the floor with her toys and I walked into the kitchen to throw away a rather disgusting diaper (by the way, the cauliflower diapers are making mommy gag and swear like a sailor so we're going to discuss whether this should be a banned substance in the Mallis house), and when I came back to the living room maybe 10 seconds later she was about 3 feet away from where I'd left her!!! How did she do that??? Did she roll? She's really good at rolling around so it's possible, but somehow she got underneath her swing, and the swing is on a base that would be pretty difficult for her to roll over. So maybe she crawled? I have no idea! All I know was she was suddenly getting at a toy that I'd decided to hide waaaaay off into a corner that she couldn't get to because it seemed a bit too dangerous for her to play with at this stage. Figures! I can't believe this is starting already....wish me luck! Anyway, I'll keep an eye on this situation and let you know what I discover. My other theory is that she's from the future and she knows how to teleport....we'll see.....

Saturday was a really fun day. Our friends Yannis and Tara had a birthday party for their son Yorgos, he turned 3. I wasn't sure how Eleni was going to react because it was right at the time she usually takes her afternoon bottle and nap so I didn't know if she was about to get really tired and fussy, or maybe she'd just sleep anyway, I had no idea. Also there was going to be a lot of kids there, more than she'd ever been around at one time. As soon as we got there I sat down with her on the couch so she could assess the situation. I gave her her bottle, while she continued to watch all the little people and toys they were playing with. After her bottle I just let her sit on my lap to decide for herself if she wanted to sleep or to play or to scream bloody murder so we'd have to run out of there really quickly.....but suddenly she started waving her arms around, and wiggling her little bum around and squealing and screetching with excitement. So I took that as a sign that we'd be skipping the afternoon nap and instead, it was party time!

I was so impressed with her, she wasn't the least bit shy with anyone. Actually she was the complete opposite of that, she was very social....as social as a 6 month old can be anyway. She wanted to be in the middle of all the action, trying out all the toys and meeting all the kids. Miltos and Maria were there with their kids Apostolis and Michaela, Apostolis is 4 and Michaela is almost exactly one year older than Eleni. We've been meaning to get the kids together for a long time but we  haven't had the chance until Saturday. Anyway, they were SO cute together. Michaela is such a sweetheart, giving Eleni toys to play with and putting her soother in her mouth which Eleni thought was so much fun. Eleni babbled away to her and Michaela just looked at her smiling as if she understood every word. But poor Apostolis' nearly had all his hair yanked out thanks to our over-excited little one, but I guess since he has a little sister he's used to that kind of thing because he didn't even react. In fact he looked a little bored. Our friends Naomi and Theo were there with their daughter Panayiota, who is also one year older than Eleni. Eleni and Panayiota have met a few times before and Eleni always seems completely amazed by her...probably because she can walk and talk and Eleni's trying to figure out how a little person just like herself can do such things! Which is good because it encourages her to try new things because she wants to do everything her friend is doing.

We were home by 8pm and I'd planned to give Eleni a bath but she fell asleep half way through her bottle and she didn't even make a sound until 7am the next morning. She woke up still wearing her party clothes...I remember when I used to do that too.....

We had another scare with Papous two nights ago. He wasn't able to sleep at all because he was having problems with his breathing. Olympia and Yorgos took him to the doctor the next morning and they did some tests but we're still waiting to hear back about the results. He seemed a bit better yesterday so hopefully it was nothing to worry about. I'll keep you posted about what's happening with him but I'm pretty sure this 94 year old is just fine and has no intention of going anywhere anytime soon. In fact I'd even bet he's healthier than most of us are!

Speaking of health, I've been getting back into yoga again. I've done it everyday for the last 2 weeks and I'm noticing a big difference already in my strength and flexibility. I'm still not ready for running or anything that intense yet which has been a big surprise to me because I figured I'd be back into working out after a few months but I guess not. So yoga it is for now and I'm perfectly ok with that. If anyone from around here is interested, Katrine is teaching a fantastic yoga class Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7pm in the harbour. If you've been practicing yoga for years or if you've never done it in your life, or even if you have an injury you need to careful of it doesn't matter, she has something for everyone. And it's free! So come with me! It's fun! And we can go to the restaurant for wine after! Which is also fun!

Well, Eleni's has woken up from her marathon long nap....3 hours! I can't believe it! She did this yesterday too and until then she'd never napped for more than an hour! I guess being 6 months old changes a person. Anyway, I'm going to go snuggle that gorgeous little petunia.

Bye for now!

6 Months!

Happy half a year Eleni Sofia!!!!!

Here are a bunch of photos I took of her yesterday......

Chatting with mom while she washes the dishes

I'm gonna get the camera!

Almost!

Laughing

Happy baby

Are we done with the stupid camera yet??

She just tried cauliflower for the first time....and I don't think she could spit any harder to get it out of her mouth! I have a video of trying to feed her the cauliflower and I'll be uploading that soon, hopefully by tomorrow. I'll also write an update of what's been going on around here then too...today I'll just give you the photos.

I can sit up all by myself!

Watching TV

Oh I love this show!

Chewing on her toys....still waiting for those little teeth to pop through

I'm gonna get your camera again Mom...AND watch TV at the same time