This is how Eleanor sleeps, roughly half the night. Thus, Melinda types one-handed very effectively.



















Eleanor's favorite place is standing as close to Ben as possible. Ben puts up with it some of the time, and wants to be left alone some of the time.

Celebration

Moments after CNN declares Obama the winner, Ben celebrates by dispensing an inordinate amount of scotch tape. Owen jumps, Palomi jumps and tootles.

Ben was a robot. When he got overwhelmed with the attention, he turtled and ate candy from the interior candy chute. Eleanor made a very fine chicken.

Trains

Eleanor crawls!

Her first crawl steps were last week, and now she gets across the living room in a few seconds...

Ben's TV Ice Cream

Ben spent yesterday laying unusual eggs. Here he serves breakfast, and explains the concept of "TV ice cream eggs".

Ben sings Take Me Out to the Ballgame

He prefers alternate tunings on the ukulele...