Seven Months and North Dakota

We headed up to North Dakota in January for a late Christmas celebration with Derek's family. This was Eleanor's first visit, and man did she get a LOT of attention. She met her great-grandparents, her uncles, great aunts and great uncles, and lots of cousins!





Our flights up there were pretty uneventful. She was a little fussy on the way to Minneapolis, and as I was holding her in the back of the plane, I found out the reason -- she had her first tooth. E managed to leave her mark at the Minneapolis airport. But other than that, traveling went pretty well. It was freezing (like -18 degrees) when we arrived, but it didn't seem to phase Eleanor. Derek on the hand made it clear to everyone at the Grand Forks airport that the lady sprinting to the car (aka me) was from Dallas, at which point everyone had a nice laugh.

We had a ton of fun hanging out with everyone -- just wish we could do it more often!

Here is Eleanor's 7 month picture. The signs are becoming somewhat of a problem...as you can tell from the out-takes below.

First try:








Sign gets taken away:


Try again:


This sign tastes good: