Tall Tara

Excuse me while I blow the dust off my blog.

This video is a *little* late but I’m totally blaming the move across town we just completed. And yes, I do feel like I can use that as an excuse for at least another week or two.

You’ll notice a majority of the pictures in this video are from Mexico. If you’re hating the winter like I am right now, then you’re in for a treat.

Also, for those who don’t like videos about adorable babies (WHA?), then just watch and try to find my two gifts to you: look for Eli’s popped collar (very prevalent fashion trend among the younger resort crowd it turns out) and the ass shots on the beach of the older Euro couple.

You’re welcome.

Perfect Ten from Tara Anderson Calihman on Vimeo.

{music credit: Snorkel, Leo Kottke}

And happy Ballantine’s day! My husband is buying us two live lobsters for dinner tonight…what are you doing?

So I’m totally off track with the daily adventures.

(I know what you’re thinking…Tara, what a surprise! See also the non-daily series: #best09, #reverb10, and the 18 days of the 21-day salute. Ahem.)

Anyway, there was a recent adventure (day 9 maybe?) that involved food, either eating or cooking something new. Since this entire month has been an experiment in letting Eli feed himself, I thought I would share how our son is doing with self-feeding.

Big props for effort.

The tooth helps. He just misses his mouth. Often.

And in the week since this picture was taken, he has another tooth. You can see the tiny beginnings of it up above, if you squint hard. The addition of another tooth brought with it some fussiness but seems to be making Eli extra brave in his eating.

Here’s to trying new food, getting more of it in your mouth and making every meal an adventure!

(Yes, I’m using the Merry Christmas bib in January. I also still have some of my holiday decorations up. Whatever.)

In the past month, Eli started pulling himself up on anything and everything within reach. Turns out standing and climbing are fun! He also got his first tooth, celebrated his first Christmas and discovered the awesomeness of storytime at the library. You might say it’s been an exciting month.

Although the month nine video features a majority of holiday pictures, I couldn’t bring myself to actually use a Christmas song as background music. I have, however, been obsessed with the soundtrack from the movie Drive (totally awesome, btw) and therefore, decided to use a song from that instead.

It is pretty amazing that he’s a real human being.

{music credit: A Real Hero (Feat. Electric Youth), College}