Eliot's recent advances

She learned how to walk down stairs without holding on (and paid for it with some scraped fingers on Anne and Michael's outdoor steps, which she attempted while holding things in her hands). She is also often getting one or two letters written per page of scribbles. She has great skill in finding things that look like other things, so she generally manages to match something she's done to a letter. But she does deliberately write jagged lines to look like "M". And today, her first tall tale. Blaise took them to the zoo and at dinner, she told me that the monkeys were talking to each other, and said "Jellybone!" (one of her nicknames).