Skillz!

Ella has been working hard and now has some new skills, with which to pay her tiny, tiny bills.

Skill number one:

Eating!

No, she hasn't just murdered a gazelle in a Bacchic frenzy. Those are beets. Yum!

After many failed attempts and much cajoling, she's now mastered the art of opening her mouth, taking most, but not all (as you can see), of the food offered to her into it, and swallowing it happily.

Skill number two:

Standing up on stuff (and kind of walking, sort of)



To date she is even more advanced at this skill that this video shows.

The technique includes, but is not limited to: (1) crawling over to some object, (2) grasping at its high parts, (3) hoisting her diaper-laden bum up onto her dainty feet, (4) looking around to see if anyone is impressed, (5) letting go with one hand, (6) pulling stuff out of box, (7) letting go with other hand, and (8) falling on bum.

And skill number three:

What we like to call, Doing The Boogie

No explanation needed.