Merry Christmas 2007
Well, it looks like we have a white Christmas after all. Seattle is very pretty in the snow. We had a long morning of opening presents and visiting. Eleanor loves her new ride-on dump truck and toy telephone. She hasn't even gotten to all of the other new toys and books yet.
The XO has also been a big hit. I'm most impressed with the TamTam suite of music activities, which includes an analog synth lab, a multi-track composer, a drum/loop sequencer, and "TamTamMini," which just turns the keyboard into an electronic piano. Eleanor loves using TamTamMini to make animal and car sounds. I've mostly used the Browse, Write, and Read activities, and experimented with the collaboration features using Tom Hoffman's public Jabber server.
Eleanor is now walking confidently, eating constantly, and reading tons of board books. New baby sign words: airplane, bird, baby, ball, book, car, dad, library, eat, water, pants, shirt, sleep, swing, tortoise (Eleanor likes going upstairs to visit John's pet tortoise.)