two months old

our smiley little girl turned two months old yesterday. it also just so happened to be my first full day back at augustana for a faculty retreat. it was no fun to be away from her, but it was a lot easier knowing that she was in loving and capable care of her grandma while i was gone. over the past week or so, eleanor has started to find her hands (so as to put them in her mouth) and hilarious slurping sounds commence. her neck, arms and legs are getting a lot stronger as the weeks go by. she holds her head up quite well and loves to pull herself up into a sitting position when she grabs on to your thumbs. the change in vantage point seems to amuse her no end. the same goes for when you put your hands under her arms and she pushes up to standing. she's also still a champ at more or less sleeping through the night with only one feeding between 3:00 and 6:00am.this weekend my dad came to iowa city and we celebrated his first 59th birthday with a steak dinner at the iowa river power co. restaurant on saturday night. the next morning, rob made blueberry coffee cake and steel-cut oatmeal for breakfast. my parents came over as did joyce, who hadn't seen nory since the day she was born. on sunday eleanor even went to the IC area's newest yarn shop with joyce and me. they were having a store-wide 30% off sale, so i couldn't resist picking up a copy of vogue knitting's stitchionary and three skeins of noro kureyon in the color shown here. i still have a bunch of unused noro yarn from my trip to LA last year. alas, the stash continues to grow...