La Fuente

I guess tiling with Daddy got a little boring, so Joaquin became a fountain. :)  This little kidlet is a constant source of goofiness.

Bajo el Ropero

 Miss Eliana is super active lately.  She hasn't managed to crawl yet, but we are working on it, constantly!   You can see evidence of this in her figure.  She's still under 20 lbs and looking slimmer than just a month ago.  Notice she can still wear this cute kitty shirt from Aunt Georgina.  I'm super excited that she's calmed down in the growing department since we have 9 month fall clothing that I want to put her in! Okay, back to the point of this blog.  She can do all sorts of stuff, just started sitting up from being on her tummy.  However moving towards something is still beyond her.  She pushes herself up and tries to move forward, but always scooches backward.  ALWAYS! This makes her frequently very frustrated and angry, and often results in some funny situations.  Since her feet are low to the ground and small, she can slide into places backward that she wouldn't fit into forwards.  In these particular photos, she managed to wedge herself under her dresser.  I fully expected a fit to ensue, but this smile came because Joaquin got down and imitated her.  Everything is better if brother is doing it!  He makes everything funny and Eliana happy.  Makes me wish I had a big brother!

Ropa, ropa, ropa

So, a short fashion blog.  Here's two of our favorite summer outfits (somehow not previously featured).  This little red and gray outfit is very adorable and part of the Harijuku Mini collection at Target.  Which is worth noting because every time she wears it Daniel says Harijuku Mini in a weird voice like 18 times.  And then this little sundress is so adorable that I'm hoping she can still wear it next summer (just as a short dress!)   And finally, I love this sleeper! I don't know why it's so cute to me, maybe the ruffles.  But she looks ridiculously sweet in it.  And curled up in her little pink and white blankets, sleepy and snuggly, wearing this sleeper, she is possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Casa Durmiente

 Between her own reluctance to nap and trying to adjust to Joaquin's school schedule, sometimes we're tired.  This is a quick catnap taken during our Labor Day picnic, it's apparently exhausting to hang out in Mommy's arms.  We're working on it though, I got brave and started letting her cry for awhile and now I can set her down for her nap and walk away.  She cries for a little bit and...... (wait for it)..... goes to sleep!  Amazing!  Admittedly they're always very short naps, but a schedule that I can predict is an amazing thing.  Thank you sweet girl.  But to prove that Eliana isn't the only sleepyhead in our house, here's a picture of Daddy 'watching' the baby.  Notice she's safely contained by his legs, but while she explores Daddy gets a nap.  I keep checking on them to make sure they were okay (and of course take a picture), but they hung out for like 20 minutes before Eliana demanded Daddy's full attention.

Locomoción

This is Eliana's famous scrunchie face.  She has a scrunchie smile as well - even cuter- but less funny.  I think this lopsided look actually comes from teething pain, but now it's become her signature.  She's also seriously working on locomotion.  This is difficult because she will only roll around on the floor and play (which is what you need to practice) when mommy will sit there with her.  Mommy insists on doing things like laundry and that really cramps her style.  She's been rolling around like a champ for a while now, but we want to move on to bigger and better things!  She pushes herself up and tries to go for things, but imagine her distress to discover that she ends up scooching backward.  It's so discouraging to be looking at what you want to get to and go farther away from it the more you try to get close.  As you can imagine this results in a lot of tears.  But yesterday we made it up onto knees and hands so hopefully we are making progress.

El Rey Edmund

 The Chick-fil-A near us hosts the occasional theme night, free food in exchange for dressing up and participating.  Daniel and Joaquin enjoyed their cow night (they made very charming cows).  Well last Saturday was Prince and Princess night.  I'm guessing it started out as a girly attraction and then expanded, but we were none the less excited.  Joaquin got a notice at school about it so of course we had to go. He dressed up as King Edmund from Narnia.  Doesn't he look great?  I think Daniel and I have some frustrated costuming instincts.  He did win his little costume contest (I think they keep having them over the evening) and won a little nerf missle thingy.  Plus they had carriage rides - again I think intended to be slightly girly but Joaquin was pretty jazzed.  He said he wished he lived when people took horse and carriages for everything.  Plus we got some free nuggets.  There were a few moms that dressed up and Joaquin told me I should have dressed up and been Queen Susan.  Since she's the pretty one I took it as a serious compliment.  You're adorable Joaquin-o.  Since Eliana can't eat chicken nuggets yet we didn't dress her up either (a massive oversight on my part), but she also had a great time.  She really likes events with lots of people and little kids.  After a nice dinner Joaquin and Daniel darted off to their next engagment and Eliana and I went home for an early evening.  Some friends of ours had set up a father and son treasure hunt out in the desert behind their house.  They ran around until it got dark (and then after) finally finding a treasure chest full of gold chocolate coins.  Awesome, huh?  Every day's a party with the Headleys.

Siete meses

 Eliana is seven months old and super happy about it!  Gotta love that super big smile.  Joaquin is sixty eight months (and also happy about it although you can't tell from the picture) and the creator of both signs.  He insisted on making Eliana's as well as his own.  Eliana now rolls all over the place - on purpose, sits for long stretches and reaches for toys.  She's starting to say ma-ma-ma-ma-ma when she's upset and then reach for me, so even if she's not saying Mama yet she will be soon!  She's also going through extreme separation anxiety - meaning if I walk away from her and she notices we get hysterics.  Her new nickname is Arm Candy, since she's super cute and always on my arm!  We're working on getting better at grabbing things.  She's actually pretty good at her pincer grip, but she hasn't figured out how to let go to get something into her mouth.  It's pretty cute to watch her try to nibble it out of her own fingers when letting go would solve the problem immediately.  Her favorite things are Daddy kisses, Joaquin silliness and the remote (it's like the best toy ever!)  She's 20 lbs and about 27 inches of adorableness.