Elias's Blog

2010-03-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

The time will come soon when our lil boy gets a serious injury. I’m sure it happens to all parents of boys, unless you keep them in bubble wrap. For instance yesterday, he decided to belly slide down the stair steps. From the very top, down. We’ve seen him do it on the last 3 or 4 stairs but from the very top was a whole new experience. Ed was sure he’d be going to the ER. I’ve caught him several times placing a step stool on top of a chair to reach even higher. The other day he got into the freezer and pulled out the ice box (which we have full of freezee pops) and dumped them all over the floor. Of course no one witnessed it personally, just the aftermath. He’s also figured out how to put his stool in front of the screen door and open it (even when it’s locked). One of his new favorite games is to stand on top of Ed’s belly (as he’s lying down) and do a cannon ball style jump onto the bed. It’s evident that the child has no fear.

He’s also very affectionate, giving a burpie and hug to anyone he thinks is upset. He also will rub you back and tell you that it’s okay. He takes very good care of his little babies too. It makes me proud and I certainly hope I can continue to raise him in a way that fosters a caring and compassionate nature.

He’s starting to potty train himself, which sounds funny to say but is true. He wants to wear his big boy undies and wants to go on the potty. Every night we’ve had an accident though. I’m not pressuring him and I myself am not entirely ready to potty train him. I figure right now is just good practice, and I have a little puppy peeing all over the house so having a lil kid being all over the house really isn’t a big thing. Sometimes he will tell you he has to go and other times it’s like he forgets and just lets loose. He just turned 2, so there is no big rush!

2nd Birthday 2

2010-03-17T19:21:00.000-07:00

Eli and his g/f Soapie. (aka Sophia). She's 3. ;)

Not a birthday pic, but one of him playing in the 'baby crib'

2nd Birthday

2010-03-17T19:18:00.001-07:00

Yes, I got him a tea set and a baby for his birthday. WELL GUESS WHAT!! HE LOVES THEM!

Mini bday party at Nana's, with Poppop and Daddy in the pic.

Opening Abby's present.

Misc.

2010-03-17T19:15:00.001-07:00

Mega bubbles in the tub. They "attack!"

One of his favorite xmas toys, his shopping cart!

Concentrating on tv.

Tasting his handywork. I let him add the sugar and water.

Baking mom some cookies :-D (It's not really turned on, or even plugged in) ;)

Elmo

2010-03-17T19:09:00.001-07:00

Eli has a TON of fun at Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up. It was about 90 minutes long with an intermission halfway through. At first he was amazed at how many other little kids were there. Then when the show started he was REALLY amazed. (see the pic right above). He was VERY into it. Dancing, clapping, singing along. He did better then I expected. I'm very glad we went!!

Where did my son learn this?

2010-03-07T11:07:00.000-08:00

Eli can turn on the tv, turn on the vcr, stick a tape in (check to see if there is one already in there, and in that case eject it), push play, fast forward and rewind.

We took one side of his crib off in hopes that he would sleep better. (Eh, doesn't make much difference except he can climb into our bed on his own). When he wakes up he'll turn his nightlight off and turn the radio off and come downstairs. It's pretty amazing to me that he can turn the radio off because there are a million button on the front of it and half of the time I hit the wrong one (especially in the dark!)

We took the puppy for a walk yesterday. (Yes, we have a 5 month old jack Russell/ pug mix that we adopted from a boy who is going into the marines.) I asked Eli if his hands were cold and he said "No mom, pockets!" and put his hands in his coat pockets. I've never showed him that.

He can draw circles. Amazing!

(he'll kill me for this when he's older). He likes washing his front side and back side under the running tub water. It's hilarious to watch.

He crawls up on your lap and says he's a 'baby.' You have to rock him and he says he wants his baba (which are all packed away!) I'd understand this behavior more if we had a baby, but we don't. He's pretty darn imaginative.

You can actually have conversation with him!! Sometimes he tells fibs though. Mostly he blames things on his cousins when they aren't even around.

Today he glanced at my dresser and said chappy! 3 chappys! (chapstick). I said no, two, then saw there WAS a third. Apparently he can count to three.

His birthday is on the 9th. The past two years have been truly amazing!

Snow Day

2010-02-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

We are fastly approaching Eli's 2nd birthday! People always say it goes by so fast but most of the time I feel like he's been around forever. I am anxious for him to grow up but am enjoying every day as well. He's getting tall and staying skinny. He has all his teeth except for his 2 year molars. His speech is amazing and gets better everyday. He knows when he's done something bad to say sorry. He says thank you when you get him something. His favorite word to describe emotion is angry. (Ever since reading Llama Llama mad at Mama). I'm trying to teach him there are other emotions like happy, sad, but they all end up being 'angry.' He's loving sesame street and even more so lately Thomas the tank engine. We went to a booksale and bought some old vhs tapes, 2 being thomas the tank engine. Now that is all he wants to watch. No real attempts at potty training yet although he did pee on the potty a few months ago. I bought him some big boy undies this past weekend but we'll wait a lil bit to try them out. He loves to announce when he's tooted. And he'll try to toot on purpose if you mention it. He's a giant cuddle bug at times and loves sleeping with his mommy and daddy. (a habit I will be trying to break soon once we can move into our new bedroom). He knows some of his abc's, like if you go through them and stop before a letter he'll name the next letter.

We've gone sledding. He had some fun. He more wanted to walk in the snow. I guess mom had more fun sledding then he did. Right now we are getting a good snow storm so he'll have some more chances to play.

His favorite thing in the world right now is playing cozy. This involves getting naked and getting under the covers. We'll read books or he'll just be a mad man and bounce all over the bed. I don't mind playing cozy because well, it's cozy :-D

We're also looking into getting a puppy .. so life should be getting much more interesting!!!

Time to go!

xmas pics 3

2010-01-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

xmas pics 2

2010-01-02T19:06:00.001-08:00

xmas pics

2010-01-02T19:04:00.001-08:00

Christmas time

2009-12-31T10:11:00.000-08:00

I'll post some pics this weekend.

Christmastime has come and gone! The weekend after thanksgiving we put our tree up. Eli was so excited when he woke up from his nap and saw a full sized tree in the dining room. I had him help me decorate. Growing up my sister and I were never allowed to touch the tree because my mom has OCD :P I want to make sure Eli always has some input. We picked non-breakable ornaments and I let him go to town. Most things ended up in the same spot. I tried to let him decorate with candy canes but after he broke the third one I gave up. His daddy set up my papaps train under the tree a few days later. Talk about an excited little boy! It's so fun to see them get so excited they can barely contain themselves. It took a few days for it to really sink in that he shouldn't be touching the trains. "NO" only deterred him so much. Over all though he did very well!

He had a very good Christmas. 4 days of it in fact! Christmas eve we visited my mother's side of the family. We got to reconnect with people I rarely get to spend time with. Christmas day his first words were "Ho ho!" He was suprised to see the presents under the tree and the big 'thing' under the blanket (his kitchen). He ripped and tore and uncovered his kitchen then immediately had to 'wash his dishes.' I might be turning him into a clean freak ;) Then we went up to the in-laws and he got to rip and tear some more.

Saturday my mom and sister came over. Mom got him a john deer ride on tractor with a wagon. I'm sure as it gets warmer out we will spend lots of time riding around the yard with it. Sunday was Dad's house with that side of the family. My dad got him a big red wooden sided wagon. It's really nice! It even has ATW wheels.

He also got some elmo dvd's which we've watched 1 time too many already.

Before christmas we had one night of peeing on the potty! I was so excited. I'm pretty sure more excited then him. It was a fluke though. He hasn't done it since! He likes to try! and if he goes in his diaper and your not quick enough he'll be undressing himself and taking his dirty diaper off. Everything is "I Do!" and boy does he know how to do a lot ;)

We're still having a word explosion! He speaks very well and has been putting 2 and 3 word sentences together. My favorite, "No, I drive!" Not for a few years yet buddy!!

He's not too much a fan of the snow. It's okay to step in, but not okay to eat or touch. We got some snow today so maybe tomorrow we'll try a little sleigh riding and see if that changes his opinion at all.

His eye teeth have come in on the top and now we are working on the bottem.

Ok well look for some pictures!!! His Daddy just took him for a nice 'lil boy' haircut after a lady at weis thought he was a girl. :P boo

my kids so smart

2009-11-28T20:05:00.000-08:00

We're raising a smarty pants ;) He knows is basic colors, red, blue, green, orange, yellow. He can identify numerous farm animals. And his memory!! The other night he was taking a bath and had a lil toy coffee pot in the tub with him. He said he was 'making coffee.' Ed nor I, nor anyone he is with everyday, drinks coffee. I asked him "who drinks coffee??" and he replied, offended almost, "Poppop and Abby!!" My dad and youngest sister. Well, he hasn't spent a day over there for months! Since probably mid september.

Well I'm proud of him anyway ;) He amazes me.

Bedtime is now quite the routine. He has to have 'cook cook', his big cookie monster stuffed animal that used to be Eds. The three cabbage patch dolls, his lil baby dolls, spok (yes, from star trek), and any other lil animals. Cookie monster has to be covered up, and the lil babies have to be under Eli's blanket. The kid is just silly sometimes.

He knows the 'golden arches' of Mcdonalds and is obsessed with frenchfries. He's going to turn into a frenchfry. We can't pull into walmart without him screaming FRENCHFRIES!!! We were driving to Mifflinville a few weeks ago on the interstate and when we got to the bridge he could see the M sign and started yelling in the car 'FRENCHFRIES!!!"

Ok that is all for now ;)

more photos

2009-11-22T18:58:00.000-08:00

Lelan

2009-11-22T18:56:00.000-08:00

photos

2009-11-22T18:55:00.000-08:00

shortie

2009-11-16T12:36:00.000-08:00

I love nothing more then to see my little boy learning everyday. He amazes me with his knowledge, his reasoning skills, his language. Some examples: He pulls a pill bottle out of the drawer and proclaims, Empty! The fact that french fries come from ‘Donalds and that his “GaGa” will take him there. His babies need burped and fed and he whips up some invisible goop in a little bowl to spoon feed them. We can watch Elmo on the kiki (computer- on youtube), and that the pee video (Elmo potty time song) is his favorite. Mommy’s toothbrush tastes better then his own. O.o If he doesn’t like what’s on tv he’ll just go turn it off. Sometimes he tries to work the remote to find ‘bob’ (spongebob) or elmo. If he feels you are not listening to him or giving him your full attention he’ll grab your face and make you look right at him.

We are getting him a pretend kitchen for Christmas. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to see the things he comes up with.

He also has a lil boy cousin now, Lelan. When I told Eli we were going to see the baby for the first time, he was so darn excited I could barely keep him from running out the door. When we got there, he immediately wanted the baby on his lap so he could hold him. Then he wanted to feed him, and give him lots of kisses, and rub his head. It was very sweet. I have some pictures which I’ll try to get up soon!

Today

2009-10-27T10:07:00.000-07:00

So I have been a bad blogger for the past some months. And I can't promise to be better at it. I want this blog to be sort of like a baby book since I don't have the time to make one otherwise. So it is nice to recall Eli's accomplishments here. I will recall some stories and maybe do better. But chances are I won't ;P

Where to start.

Eli is amazing. He is learning so much everyday. He is starting a language explosion, trying to repeat everything we say. Sometimes it's understandable, sometimes it's only understandable to those closest to him. Last night he was trying to hard to say his name. It was coming out like "E I E I". Friday I came home to the phrases puppy poop and butt paste. Walmart is officially known as frenchfries (which he's gotten REALLY good at saying). No and Mine are very big parts of the vocab. Mine is mostly used when he's gotten a doggie toy and is running around with it. No it used for just about everything. He very much has his own opinion and isn't afraid to tell you about it. It won't be so long until he's really talking and we all will know what he is saying. Oh and mama is officially in his regular vocab now!!! He could say it before but it was a struggle. The past few weeks though it has become easy for him. It's ok except when it's 3 in the morning and all I'm hearing is "maaamaaaa."

It's exciting. Of course he seems like the smartest boy in the world to me. He also loves sitting on the computer and watching you tube. He likes mickey mouse hot dog song, any choo choo soul songs, animals sounds (cows, chickens, geese, sheep etc), elmo videos, and Old Macdonald. We had a brief obsession with cows after we contracted with an amish guy to put a new roof on our house. We went out to his home, and he takes care of milking cows. He said we could go look and Eli was amazed. Then it was fair time and we were able to take him though all of the live stock barns. He loved it. We were standing in front of a pair of cows, and Eli was admiring the one, while the other next to his started a nice deep Mooooooooooooooo. If I could have captured the look on his face, it would have been perfect. He leaned back into me and his eyes got as big as saucers. By the 3rd barn he was running between all of the animals waving and saying "hi" and even petting some.

He follows simple commands, which is nice. Like "shut the door!" or "throw it away." he does not follow other commands like "dont flush the toilet!!" or "put that down!!!" Instead commands like that usually end up with a toilet flushed 10 times or him running behind the recliner with the telephone and hurrying up to push all the buttons before you can get him.

He's very good at running and hiding. He likes to get up the steps quick then hide half under the bed, or hide right in the middle, behind Ed's recliner. He also likes hiding under the kitchen table but I really suprised him this weekend when I went right under with him. Oh the giggles. I need to get a video camera with sound so I can record him.

Anytime you have a 'booboo' he gives kisses. Ed just had his gallbladder out and when Eli saw the lil marks from it he gets his squinty eyes and goes "oooowwwww boo booooo" and starts giving kisses. He's such an affectionate child. Giving hugs and kisses (even to virtual strangers, like the waitress at Bassetts).

We had a lil stint where he had to go to daycare. I think he was temporarily tramatized from it. He apparently is not much for playing with other lil kids his age. It was tramatic for all of us and took about 2 weeks to recover from. Not sure I'll be trying that again until he's a bit older.

He has his little 'babies' that go to bed with him (glow worm, a puppy dog, elmo, spok (like from star trek)). Oh and of course his burpies. And it's not just one burpie, it's often 3 burpies. He takes his glow worm and puts him over his shoulder, and pats his back then goes "BURRRRRRRRP!" like the glow worm let out a big one.

He can put his shoes on by himself..most of the time on the right feet. He almost entirely uses his left hand for everything and I really do believe he will be a lefty (much to Dads dismay!)

He loves playing outside and I'm a lil weary about winter setting in. And he loves going places, although you have to either go in the morning, or after afternoon nap. He's cut himself down to 1 nap a day, mid afternoon. It's working ok.

Well that is my updates for now. I will try to post some pictures and the link to the youtube with his video's.

And if I think of anything else of course, I'll update!

Crazy Dancer

2009-07-19T19:24:00.000-07:00

Mom's a bum

2009-07-17T11:23:00.000-07:00

I haven't taken any pictures lately. I will. This weekend :-D Eli is doing fantastic. He's very small for his age but I am tryin to take that with a grain of salt. He is in the 5% for his height and weight and actually lost half an inch between his 12 mo and 15 mo appt. o.O (someone measured wrong).

He's getting teeth galore and they are causing some issues. I feel so bad for him. I'm just hoping they come in quickly and we get it over with!!

He's a very active little kid. Always running away from you. Climbing on the table. Getting into everything... *sigh* :P It's so hard to not be yelling no all the time. He's always amazingly affectionate. I love it. He gives the best hugs and kisses and is blowing kisses now. It just melts my heart.

He loves the fact that he can go outside and pick rasberries or fresh peas (although dismayed that the strawberries are gone). He understands so well! He tries to repeat about any word you say, and often times it's just a jumble but he's getting there. He's also attempting to potty train. He can't say poop (or has no desire to?) but he will say dirty. At first it was AFTER he went. Then in the middle of it.. but now he's attempting to tell us he's dirty "right" before it happens. I've sat him on the seat a few times and he squeezes, but nothing has happened yet. It's okay. He's young and we aren't pushing it! Now if I could get him to be a little more enthusiastic about brushing his teeth.

Time is going by fast and and my baby is now a toddler. A walking, talking, able to make simple decisions on his own toddler. :-D

Life is grand!

Some words

2009-06-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

I know I mostly post pictures..so now I need to explain some of them.

I'm at work though and can't see what the pictures are, which I posted last night, so I'll have to go from memory.

I know there is a messy face one.. that's not abnormal. The kid is a pretty messy eater. He also enjoys throwing his food all over the floor and whatnot. I guess he thinks the dogs are starving or something. Every now and then he'll throw a fork or a plate and hit one of them. Then we get a "yulp", but in dogs the need to scrounge off of their human counterparts is stronger then their self presservation instincts.

I know there are some pictures of 'glove hands' :-D Eli likes getting into the kitchen drawers and taking out the oven mits. We then put on our glove hands and smack each other silly.

Theres some pictures of Eli messing around with vaseline. ;P The other night I left him alone for 5 minutes. 5 minutes I swear!!! He got the tub of vaseline opened and had it gobbed all on his hands, his face, the keyboard, the mouse, and the computer chair. I wasn't to happy but I wasn't that upset either because it was funny. And fyi diaper wipes work really well at cleaning up that greasy slop.

What else is going on...

Eli got in a molar. Which is strange. I thought he would get on the bottom, the teeth next to his two front teeth. Instead he threw us for a loop and got in a tooth on the top, way in the back. And of course he won't let you see in his mouth, or brush his teeth for that matter. He's very tight lipped at times.

His understanding his so amazing. For awhile now we have noticed he understands when you ask him to do certain things, like finding a pair of shorts or picking up a certain toy. My mom was babysitting him one day and said "hey you got a new toy!!" which Eli immediately ran over to and grabbed to show off. Last night I told him 'Da da' was in the bathroom and to go 'knock on the door and tell him to get the hell out of there". Eli gave me this lil look, ran over to the bathroom, started banging on the door and yelling his own jibberish version of get the hell out.

He also enjoys pushing me around when he wants my attention, which is pretty much all the time. He's pretty strong too! But he can be content to sit and get into things on his own. Especially if it's something I don't really want him to get into.

He is obsessed with our strawberry plants. You take him outside and he goes running right over 'straw straw straw" and will push through the plants and pull off the berries. I just need to teach him how to figure out what is ripe and what is not.

Well I think that is a fairly good update for now. :-D I'm sure this summer is going to be a blast!

Vaseline

2009-06-11T19:05:00.001-07:00

Glove hands and Egg ears

2009-06-11T19:03:00.001-07:00

Knoebels

2009-05-20T18:08:00.000-07:00

Quad and the Potty

2009-05-20T18:05:00.000-07:00

Breaking news

2009-05-04T18:37:00.000-07:00

Eli has 6 teeth!! Well 4 full and 2 almost there teeth. His eye teeth are coming in well, and it looks as though they have broken skin. I thought Eli was having allergy issues but apparently it was teething. (everytime he gets teeth he has a runny nose for 2 weeks prior). More teeth is trouble though. I'm paranoid he'll become a biter. He gets a kick out of biting my big toes for some reason. I can't help but laugh but the more I 'pretend scream' the more he laughs then I laugh and it's not good. Luckly that is ALL he has been biting. He is turning into quite the handful though. He's figured out how to pull out the chairs and climb onto the kitchen table or the computer desk. He's quick to! You turn your back for 2 seconds and he is standing on the table. I've had to turn my chairs all upside down. I know that'll only last so long. He'll eventually gain the size advantage and just flip the chairs back over. He also REALLY enjoys looking out the windows so I take an unused laundry basket and turn it upside down so he has a bit of a stool to stand on.

He has been imitating the dogs for a few weeks now, oof oof. What's cute is he takes out this little dog stuffed animal toy he has and will carry it around going oof off. The other night he learned how to 'quack' like a duck. If you ask him what does a duck do he'll go 'qwack qwack.'

Not *EVERY* time but most of the time I can get him to count to two. If I say "one" and hold up another object he'll go 'two.' He's a smart little bugger. He watches you do something once and he wants to do it. He watched me unscrew the battery cover to his one book and then was insistant he had the screw driver and that was going to unscrew it. He also keeps trying to put the car keys into the door lock. He's a little too short to reach though. He's following commands very well. If you tell him to give something to mommy or daddy he will. Tonight his drink was empty so Ed said "give it to Mommy." I was out in the kitchen and he brought it right to the baby gate and threw it over. He'll throw his diapers away as well : X He's drinking out of a straw very well and eats a good variety of food. Some of his favorite things are kidney beans, frenchfries, mcdonalds cheeseburger, pickles, cheese, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, marshmellows, gold fish, club crackers, cheesey hot dogs, grapes, oranges, mandarine oranges, strawberries, any kind of cereal, mac and cheese crackers, and teddy grahms.

He got his first hair cut on May 2nd (my birthday, which by the way, makes me very old). He did so well! I was so proud of him. The hair dresser I could tell was reluctant. She's so very nice though. She put the booster on the chair and sat him in it and put the little cap around him. She kept remarking how 'tiny' he is. ;P I told her just to get above the ears because if that is ALL she can get, I'll be happy. Eli though was perfectly content and fascinated by the entire process. He sat still the whole time and she was able to get all of his hair. It was a great birthday present! He now looks like such a little man.

I think I might have to start considering potty training. I know he is so young but he seems to be gearing up for it. When he 'goes' he often squats down so you know exactly when he's doing it. Most of the time when he poops he'll come running over and be pulling as his diaper. Saturday night I took his diaper off and got up quick to get the diaper cream. He of course ran away, squatted on the floor, grunted, and peed. I've had him do this outside too while running around without a diaper on.

Ok well that was a lot of update and I think that's all I have for now ;)

First Hair Cut

2009-05-04T18:35:00.000-07:00

Getting there..

2009-05-04T18:33:00.000-07:00

Below is some pictures :-D Eli discovered the hose as we were filling the pond up. He thought it was the greatest thing on earth. He also likes pretending to drive my car ;)

Pictures

2009-05-04T18:28:00.000-07:00

Easter

2009-04-11T18:45:00.000-07:00

We had a fantastic easter egg hunt today! A friend invited me to her church for their egg hunt today which was very nice since there were not too many kids there. The eggs were all spread out in a large area. Eli walked around and I held the bucket and he put his eggs in there. He got two prize eggs and two eggs with candy. He had a fun time and so did Dad and I :-D\

Sorry no action shots :-D

More pics

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Other pics

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Flordia Pics

2009-04-10T18:53:00.001-07:00

Easter time

2009-04-10T07:29:00.000-07:00

We have been practicing with Eli for the egg hunt Saturday. I think he'll beat all the other kids out ;) well maybe. He also likes dumping his bucket and playing 'scrambled eggs' so we'll see. A co-worker was very nice to invite me out to her church and she says there are very few kids. At least this way I don't have to worry about him getting trampled over. With other little kids around he's very likely to lose focus. Oh well. It's more for me then it is for him. :-X

Eli now has two top teeth and two bottom teeth. He's very good at tearing at things. He loves eating whole apples or tearing off a peice of toast. He is really picky with eating though. He likes having his own plate and fork and not just a toddler fork he wants a big boy fork. He just stabs it around like crazy until he gets something. And he LOVES ranch dressing. That's probably not good haha. I figure though if a lil dot of ranch dressing makes him eat a bunch of peas or greenbeans, it's a keeper.

He's spouting off words left and right lately. He's saying juice, shoes, keys, hiya, down, ontop of already saying whats that, book, mama, dada, daddy, kitty kit, shut up, and a few random things.

Watching him play anymore is so entertaining in itself. He loves being outside. We have a little shovel and he walks around outside and digs at everything. He doesnt like any garbage in his dirt either, like sticks or rocks. And get that kid near water and WATCH out. I think he'll have lots of fun this summer in a little wading pool. He likes to gather up some plastic easter eggs and put them in a bucket and smashes at them with a little plastic shovel. He'll get one on the shovel and bring it to his lips and act like he's tasting it. We got rid of our couch and put our futon in the living room and he's able to crawl up on there. He loves sitting up there and just playing. I wonder what he's imagining. ;)

He's at such a fun age right now and is growing by leaps and bounds. I can't wait for the weather to get warmer and to visit parks and whatnot. He has a very independent personality though so I know he'll be trouble. He wants to do what he wants to do! He doesn't want to hold mommy's hand and he doesn't want to sit in the cart. And if he wants to throw food on the floor darnit, he's throwing food on the floor!!!

AND he really doesn't want to sit still in the airplane ;) We took our first airplane ride down to Flordia. The way down wasn't so bad. He fell asleep and it was nice. The way home was a disaster. Flight delays, lost baggage, lay overs.. ug. It wasn't pleasant for anyone. And I'm sure it's not something we will be doing again anytime soon.

I will add some pics from Flordia this weekend!!

March of Dimes

2009-04-07T12:39:00.000-07:00

I'm walking for March of Dimes. :-D

If you want to sponser..

;)

http://www.marchforbabies.org/twylashaffer

A year's reflection

2009-03-19T11:10:00.001-07:00

It seems like Eli has been around forever. I can barely remember him being a tiny little thing. I do know I'd get a lot more sleep without him, but I'd rather go with the 6 hours a night ;) He has grown so much! He is 18.9 pounds and 2 feet, 6 inches tall. He walks so good and he loves the nice weather. He's learning how to walk around the yard pretty well which was a challenge at first since our yard is hilly. He's a very happy kid, except when he's tired, but hey who isn't cranky when they are tired! His vocabulary is amazing! (or at least I think so). He says 'see ya' and 'byebye'. He's been saying Ma ma lately but usually just when he's upset. He even said cracker the other day in walmart. He likes to tell the dogs to 'shut up' when they are barking. He's very vocal all the time. His favorite pastime is crawling all over his mom and beating on her ;P I don't mind though. And if you are REALLY lucky, he'll give you a smooch. Life is so exciting with him around. He has two teeth on the bottom and one tooth on the top. He's a very picky eater. I suppose all kids are at this age. He loves his pickles and cheese. He'll also eat a cheesedog and a half but we save that for every once in awhile. And of course he'll eat just about any kind of fruit. Give him a cut up banana, and he'll refuse it. But if you give him the WHOLE banana, he'll eat it down! I guess theres a difference ;)

So an entire year, come and gone. Soon we will embark on another first, a plane ride to Florida. Hopefully all goes well!

Birthday 2

2009-03-10T19:08:00.001-07:00

Eli's Birthday

2009-03-10T19:03:00.001-07:00

You have to look at the pictures from the bottom of the post up to see the sequence of it ;) He loved everyone singing happy birthday to him and clapped for us. He was unsure of what to do with the cake but then he started to get the swing of things.

So apparently I only took pictures of him eating cake, but hey that's the important part ;)

Almost 1

2009-03-02T12:57:00.000-08:00

I just typed a big post and it didnt work! *cries*

2009-02-19T19:30:00.000-08:00

My child...

well Ed's child too ;)

is bad.

He likes to put all his food into the dog crate. Not really sure. Maybe he thinks the pups are hungry. Maybe he's planning on living in the dog crate. *shrugs*

And tonight Ed says "good thing I have the brain of a 1 yr old mom, or else I'd just crawl under that gate"

and 2 seconds later, Eli crawls under the gate. We did it that way so the dogs could get into the kitchen to get their food. Now I'm not sure WHAT to do.

Keep meaning to update...

2009-02-16T09:43:00.000-08:00

so I've been meaning to update for awhile but I started a new job and am super busy. I used to do all of my 'netting' at my old job (which is horrible to say but there was a lot of downtime and I only had so many things I could possibly do.

It's not like that here at my new job. I'm always hoppin'. Which is a good thing.

But it's lunch time! And I'm taking advantage of it.

So!!

Since I knew quite a few family members read this I'll attempt to update.

Eli is walking now. Almost exclusively. Sometimes he holds his arms straight out and I joke that he's a zombie. (Since he growls constantly, it's about true). Theres minimal bumping and bruising which is also good. And of course he just takes off running. It's cute, and I love it. I hate how everyone says "oh once he's walking you'll really be in trouble!" Walking just makes ME feel much better. I have a compulsion towards cleaning and thinking about his hands all over the floor freaks me out. I'm much happier thinking just his feet are touching the floor.

He's also big on climbing. He can climb into his highchair and sit down (and fall off of it. NO MORE climbing on the highchair!!) and he's smart. He pushes his toys in front of the recliner and climbs up and sits down and thinks he's hot shit. He also has permanent bad hair day. I'm not sure what is up with that kids hair but it's ALWAYS sticking up in the back. I even tried moose but it's so fine. He still only has his two bottom teeth but that's okay. He's learned quickly how to chomp on things and is eating just about everything. He loves Mandarin oranges. And cheese. And mcdonalds hamburgers. He ate an entire one (minus the bun) on Saturday.

He's still a skinnyminny. Ed and I weighed him last night and it came out to 16 pounds, but the doctors scale said 18.5 a month ago. Of course with all the running around he's doing it's hard to tell.

He loves it outside and I can't wait until it gets nice and warm out and he can run around. Of course then I'll be freaking out about ticks and I might just need to look into spraying the yard down. : X

His vocabulary is increasing. He CAN say mom but he doesn't. He says "Ga' for his grammy, and Dad all the time. At walmart Friday night he looked at the door and said "door." I was like hm okay. *haha*. He says Cook (cookie), Kit (kitty), what sounds like 'what's that', and tries to say his cousins names. He's growing up quite a bit.

And of course I'm crazy in love with him ;)

Birthday party! March 8th at 1 oclock. Invites will be out soon. I'm not expecting presents but if anyone is so inclined, summer type clothing size 12-18 months would be nice. Well if it's onesies, 18 + months. Pants the kids still in 6-9 months.

And if you want to volunteer to bring food, PLEASE LET ME KNOW :-D

2009-02-01T13:01:00.000-08:00

2009-02-01T12:59:00.000-08:00

pics

2009-02-01T12:56:00.001-08:00

TTTTTROUBLE

2009-01-18T15:04:00.000-08:00

Yes our child is FULL OF TROUBLE!!! His newest game is 'chase.' He loves when your yelling nooo!!!! He crawls away just as fast as he can, giggling the whole way and turning around to see just how close you are. No progress on the walking, but that's okay. He's taken an obsessive interest in 3 books that he has (two are foam with peices you take out and 1 has flaps that you lift and things to feel underneath). I have memorized the books. Give it another week and he will have memorized them as well ;) haha.

The other day Ed said "go get daddy a book." and Eli crawled over, grabbed his fav, and crawled back to Dad with it. He's a smart bugger.

He also likes cleaning out my cupboards, as you see in the pics. And playing in the toilet (no pic of that, sorry), and body slamming the cat and just being a generally happy kid ;)

More christmas pictures

2008-12-29T18:11:00.000-08:00

Christmas Update

2008-12-28T19:59:00.000-08:00

Make sure you click on the pictures to see them big!!

Christmas was good! Eli had a blast. He got all kinds of cool presents and really seems to enjoy things.

There are more pictures but I didnt upload them all to photobucket so make sure you check back!!

He's doing very well. He seems to be growing taller but I don't think he's gaining much weight. Or whatever he does gain disappears with his height. He's waving byebye now, very enthusiastically I might add! He's also cruising very well around the furniture and can take a few steps on his own. It won't be too long until he's walking on his own. His main problem is he gets excited and tries to take off then loses his balance. He still just has two teeth on the bottem. He's eating all 'big boy' food. Which can be challenging finding healthy stuff for him! He mostly wants fruit all of the time. It's hard to get him to eat a diverse diet. But he does eat just about anything which is good! And well of course he enjoys playing in it too.

I have some photos of him unrolling the toilet paper that I will post later ;) OO he can be a turkey! and a monkey! crawling all over everything. His favorite toys are the remote and the telephone!!! Soo I am currently charging up our old phone, and I got him his own remote for christmas ;) It's amazing to watch him play and see how his mind works. He loves rolling cars around the house. He even has them 'drive' on things, like on the couch or chairs. He also likes dropping things from a distance, or into a box or garbage can. He gets into EVERYTHING! the bottem drawer on the vanity has bars of soap in it. He loves getting those out then sliding them around on the floor. We have a crate on the floor in the kitchen that has our garden potatoes in there, and he's recently discovered those. Ed and I found him chewing on one the one night. And they aren't exactly scrubbed clean either! Now every chance he gets, he's in there trying to get one. The other day I snuck up on him in the kitchen chewing on a potatoe. I went 'HEY!" and he dropped it quick then dropped on his belly and peered at me from under his high chair!! That's the other thing he likes doing, dropping onto his belly to look 'under' things.. especially if a toy goes rolling under something.

His favorite word is 'a gah" I have no idea what he's saying. He also says "cook" for cookie. Book, baba, mama, dada, ga (grammy), I get it (not perfectly but well enough you know that is what he's saying), all done, elmos world (again not perfectly), dink (drink), andd that's all I can think of right now.

Oh and the other day Ed called the dog an idiot and Eli picked that up "idit, idit"

Another story.. the other day Eli was being AWFULLY quiet out in the living room. I thought Ed was out here with him but here Ed was outside with the dogs. When I walked around the corner here Eli had Eds garbage can overturned and was chewing on an orange peel. *hehe* He offered it to me, which was nice.

He shares sometimes ;) or at least likes to show you what he has.

Okay that is all the update for now but check back for more pictures!

Christmas Photos 2

2008-12-28T19:54:00.001-08:00

Christmas photos

2008-12-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

We enjoy ripping all of mommies movies apart!!

OOO vibrate my tummy!!!!

1st birthday party

2008-12-08T18:18:00.001-08:00

Eli went to his first birthday party yesterday for his buddy Hunter. I think everyone had a blast, especially Hunter with his cake ;) It was cute!! There was also another little boy there named Grayson. Between the three of them, Eli turned out to be the bully. He's tiny but he's tough. Grayson was eating an animal cookie and Eli decided to just climb right up using Graysons clothes, push Grayson back against a chair, then try to take the cookie. Yeaa he's a tough'in.

But it was nice seeing him socialize with other kids his age. I think he needs some more of that.
I thought I'd post some more pictures though, for everyone who lives for the pictures on this blog *aka mom*
;)

Btw I stole these pics from Ambers myspace. Thanks ;)

PS: You have to click on the pics to expand them. What you see is not the entire picture. Blogger does that for some reason *shrugs*

Sunday

2008-12-07T06:41:00.000-08:00

No updates for awhile! My new job is keeping me busy.

I have some pictures to share and some news.

Eli went to see Santa last weekend at the mall. He was fine! The picture lady kept commenting how happy he was. I was so excited for him to meet Santa I didn't mind paying entirely too much for the picture ;P

He also walked up the stairs last Saturday. I was behind him of course, but he started motoring up and didn't stop until he was almost at the top. Then he took a lil break and went right on up the rest of the way! He's a bugger!

Right now it's just a challenge trying to feed him. He slaps the spoon out of your hand when your trying to feed him baby food. He mostly wants table food. It's hard to switch gears and think about okay what do I need to have on hand to feed him, since he can't exactly eat everything we have. I'm still pretty paranoid about giving him meat like chicken or pork or whatnot, and having it be too tough for him to mush up. He does really well though.

Okay that is all for now. And look for my next post to say he's walking ;) haha. I think by christmas time he will be!!!!

First TOOTH

2008-11-21T11:34:00.001-08:00

Yay my baby got his first tooth! It started poking through on wednesday. He keeps rubbing his tongue on it and sticking his fingers in his mouth like what the heck is that! Ed says theres another one coming in right next to is (so the two front teeth) but I didn't see it. Eli is very resistant to you prying his mouth open or to you sticking a finger in there. It's his mouth darnit.

He had his 9 month check up yesterday. It was about 2 weeks early but I wanted to squeeze it in before I started my new job. He's a tiny boy. He weighs 16 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 27 and a quarter inches tall. His head was like 17 inchs around (if I remember right). he's dropped way down on the growth charts and the Dr thinks he has my height genes. We'll see though. We don't need another shortie around.

And he also slept ALLL night long last night. He does every now and then, but normally I still wake up to him making lil peeps or waking up a lil bit in the middle of the night. Last night was SILENT. It was nice. The dr says though he might start waking up and screaming for mum or dad, as seperation anxiety sets in. Ahh just when things get good it could go bad again.

oh well!

Ice cream face

2008-11-17T08:32:00.001-08:00

I really hate it when Eli plays in the dog bed but he was so happy and looked so cute sitting in there the other day. He had pulled his baby monitor down and was just having a grand ol time.

This is his ice cream face. OOo yea we love those ice cream sandwiches :-D

Today

2008-11-17T07:34:00.000-08:00

It's been awhile since I've posted. I think Eli is finally getting a tooth. Well I know he is. You can FEEL it :-D it's this hard lump underneath his gum and that keeps getting bigger and bigger. So now the officially tooth countdown can start. He hasn't been too grumpy so that is a plus. Maybe that'll come later I don't know how long it takes these things to push through. Hopefully it'll be easy on him. I hate it when he's miserable.

He's cruising along the furniture pretty good now. I'm not really encouraging him to walk though (like holding his hands and leading him around). Maybe later on but he's only 8 months now. No need to hurry it!

And we've figured out that he sleeps MUCH better without the nightlight on. Unfortunantly I sleep worse because I'm paranoid he'll suffocate under his blanket. And also unfortunantly we need the blanket because our bedroom is so cold. boo :(

A mommy moment

2008-10-27T05:40:00.000-07:00

Unfortunantly Eli is still sick :( Which stinks. He was doing fine on Friday but then got sick all over again on Saturday. He was alright yesterday so we will see. Poor kiddo. The bug's just hanging on.

He climbed the stairs this morning. Yup! I can imagine the shock on your face *haha* He only got up two steps before I grabbed him of course, but he had no issues doing it whatsoever. I think he's part monkey. He's just so darn cute sometimes.

I had to share the following mommy moment:

Even though I generally run on 6 hours of sleep, waking up with him in the middle of the night can be the most precious time of the day. He's usually standing on the side of his crib babbeling at me. I make him a bottle and lay him in bed between Ed and I and feed him. He usually rubs his hand up and down my arm or sometimes on my cheek. Last night he was grabbing my nose and moving my face all around.. then getting a big smile as he still had the bottle in his mouth. It just makes you forget all about the fact that it's 4 am and you really want to be sleeping. Andd sometimes he likes to just cuddle up next to me and snooze in bed until it's time to get up for the day. Andd sometimes he decides he doesn't want to go back to sleep and he'd rather pull on Daddy's goatee while he's trying to sleep. *haha*

Either way, you can't help but smile :-D

The "bug"

2008-10-24T06:01:00.000-07:00

Our household just got over the dreaded stomach bug. I haven't been sick with that for 8 years! The first winter with a baby and it hits us all! (by all I mean mother in law, father in law, brother in law, sister in law and one neice. The other so far is okay). We all had slightly different variations.

Eli started with it monday with, to be kind i'll just say, bad diapers. Tuesday I was very very ill as was Ed, then tuesday evening Eli was 'ill.' (aka yarfing). Wednesday he seemed better but then in the middle of the night there was more yarf. It was not fun.

I think today we are finally over it. We fed him mostly a pedialyte mixture yesterday (Water, salt, sugar, jello). Soo today MIL is going to try some banana's for breakfast and we'll see how that goes.

In other news: He's really mastered pulling himself up and standing next to things. He's not really cruising yet but getting there. And boy is he a fast crawler. If he really wants something he takes off. He's saying all kinds of things now. All within a few days! he's saying ba ba and even said mummum a few times. He's saying gaa and all other sorts of babbelings.

He also ate some dog food this morning. By the time Ed got to him (after we heard the bowl tip) he had dog food in his hands. I was cleaning off his hands and was like, wait a minute, whats in your mouth. Sure enough some dog food. The kicker is, he was so sneaky about it! he had a completely straight face and wasn't chewing or doing anything to give away the fact that he had dog food in there.

If this is the sign of things to come..well... I'm going to be in trouble.

Some professional pictures

2008-10-19T07:16:00.000-07:00

Ed's sis had these done for us. They are sooo good!!!

Teeth

2008-10-16T06:20:00.001-07:00

SOO I thought we might be finally getting a tooth. Sleepless nights, lots of crank, a lil lump... but now I'm not so sure. I don't feel the lump anymore. It must have sucked itself in. Ah well.

Eli continues to crawl around like crazy. We've had to block him off from the dining room/kitchen area. he's fast. I was cooking dinner last night and within 2 seconds Eli was from the living room to the kitchen tipping the dog food bowl. It's like he has radar. Hm I shouldn't play with this so lets make a beline and get there before mom knows what's going on!!!

And he likes dancing ;) Or mostly me spinning around and hopping up and down while he just holds on for dear life and giggles like crazy :-D

here are some moree pictures (or there were some pictures..they always post first and I forget)

more pix

2008-10-04T19:19:00.000-07:00

pix

2008-10-04T19:15:00.000-07:00

Some pics

2008-10-04T19:11:00.000-07:00

Soo we took some pics this evening which was harder then heck. Eli's so busy crawling around and exploring we couldnt keep him still. Plus he would NOT look at us.

THEN I come in and download, and the camera was on the wrong setting. the pics aren't bad but not very good either. The camera needed to be set for a better picture quality so I could print them out :( soo

these will have to do for now. Maybe I'll tackle it again tmrw.

Hmmmmm

2008-09-30T10:14:00.000-07:00

So I haven't posted for awhile.

I was off work fair week and didn't get a whole lot done. Eli is a lil maniac and he just left me exhusted. Everytime he napped I napped. Or zoned. or something nonactivity releated.

Also in the past week he has learned A LOT! which might explain why before that we were having some major sleep issues.

He is now pulling himself up on you. He likes grabbing ahold of your clothes and pulling. He likes to do that.. up and down.. constantly. Yea I pretty much became a jungle gym. He's also getting somewhere with his crawling. He kind of hops forward, goes splat on the floor. gets up on all fours then hops again. It's slow, but works. I don't think he'll be crawling that long before he starts walking.

He still does not have teeth, but he wants to eat table food now. He's been spitting out his veggies but he will eat his fruits. I've been giving him little bits of whatever we eat. He likes mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, peas, cheese from pizza, um pretty much anything you put on the end of your finger. Oh and Red Lobster buiscuits are yummy too. (I don't think theres a person in the world who would disagree with that).

Soo he's a growing, busy, maniac of a child. Oh and he likes watching Barney. that's not one Ed and I are too fond of though. Jay Jay the Jet Plane and Seasame street catch his attention too.

I need to take some pics and post :-D maybe later.

Dada

2008-09-18T08:50:00.001-07:00

Well it seems like my lil boy has figured out da da. And boy is he good at saying it too. It's all da da this and da da that. First thing when he wakes up da da and when he's trying to take a bottle too da da. Yup...

Hopefully mummum is next ;)

Bound to happen

2008-09-10T10:12:00.001-07:00

Well this was something that was bound to happen. A certain little boy I know has found a certain little area of his body that normally is covered up. Uhhhuh. I can't wait until he figures out how to undo his diaper or how to reach down inside ;P

Sunday

2008-09-07T17:54:00.000-07:00

Eli and I went to visit Amber, Hunter and Kalista today. Eli and Hunter were a little bit on the verge of grumpy but it went well. Hunter had some half deflated balloons and Eli thought they were the bees knees.

Now I must say that I dislike my camera. It has different settings for picture quality. One is 0.3 (the lowest) the next is 1. Well 1 makes the pics REALLY huge and when you try to resize them they distort. but 0.3 takes crappy pictures :(

Okay that rant over.

Eli's wanting to crawl. Since last weekend that is his new thing. Before he hated being on his belly and now that's all he wants to do. No more naps on the bed. That kiddo is WAY to quick. (and I just paid 15 dollars for a bedrail HRMPH. Ah well perhaps when Eli is in a big boy bed he'll need it.) He tries to get himself to go forward but instead he somehow ends up backwards. I have not witnessed this personally but several times I have placed him on the floor and walked away and when I came back he was a foot or two behind his original placement. o.O

Silly kid. And he's a jumping maniac. Ed says Eli would win 'jumpyjump' in the olympics. Too bad it's not an official sport :(

Okay that is all for now :-D I promise to take more pictures.

Hmm

2008-08-27T10:09:00.000-07:00

I've been quiet lately. I haven't been feeling well. I thought for sure Eli was teething but now I have a cold, and I wonder if his runny nose is because he got the cold first.
He was baptised on Saturday. It was very nice. He screamed all morning which of course I knew would happen. After all, it was only a big day!!! He ended up being just fine during the ceremony though and the little reception afterwards. All and all it went very nicely!
He's been sitting up better and better everyday. You still have to keep your hands near him though as he tends to just let himself fall over. I still can't get him on his belly. Now that he can roll he just immediately rolls onto his back. But he sleeps on his belly. Go figure.
Soo not much else is going on. I did make some homemade babyfood last night. Mango's. It's slightly cost effective I suppose. I made roughly 7 and a half jars of babyfood and the mango's cost me 2.50. Your saving a *little* bit of money. That might vary with different things though. Like now from our garden we have a ton of green beans and peas that I can make that will be free. Also some squash and pumpkin. And next year when he'll be able to eat pretty much everything we eat it'll really be nice :-D

Some things from the weekend

2008-08-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

So I forgot about this weekend when I posted the pictures.

We went to Burger king on Saturday and poor Eli was staring us down something fierce. (From now on we'll be taking some jar food to feed him while we are eating too). I thought we could give him a little peice of bun, to give him a taste. I figured it's soft and if it's small enough he shouldn't choke. Well I guess maybe it's a first time mom mistake? :P because you would have thought the kid was dieing. The instant it touched his tongue he started going "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK" really...loud. He just kept doing it over and over. He wasn't choking mind you, the bread had barely touched his tongue. So we quickly gave him some formula to wash it down. All he did was throw that up along with some bread particles. He was still very loudly going GAAAAAAAAAAAAAK (which now instead of having a hairball I think I'll call it having a breadball). I stuck my pinkie in there to do a mouth sweep but didn't get anything. Then Ed did and got the littlest peice of bread out and Eli was just fine.

We learned our lesson though, no more texture. We'll stick with the puree.

Eli came back from poppop's today and actually was SITTING in the bathtub!! Usually he wants to stand and it's annoying holding onto him. (But he has fun) well he was sitting in there all nice and having a good old time. He kept swishin his rag around and sucking up some water. Of course I sit there thinking ugg he shouldn't be drinking that..but I'm realistic enough to realize much worse will go in his mouth down the road.

Hm well that's all I think for now. He is peacefully sleeping, until 4 am. Then like clockwork he'll be awake and ready for fun!!

OH! and he's also starting to *reach* out when he wants someone to hold him. It's cute. I would say he only does it for me, but I had him and he was doing it towards his poppop too. AND he's also getting the hang of his new jumperoo. He was jumping a bit this evening :-D

and a few more

2008-08-18T07:26:00.000-07:00

We were walking around the Montour Delong fair on friday night and people kept looking at Eli in his stroller and giggling, or saying "look at that" or "are those feet tasty??" well here he was with both feet in his mouth, just having a good old time ;)

More pictures

2008-08-18T07:24:00.000-07:00

I'll have to try to get a video of this (I think my digi camera lets me take some video). But Eli lovessssss hiding under blankets. He'll pull the blanket over his face, then kick his arms and legs like crazy, then rip the blanket off.

He's a goofy child.

Monday morning

2008-08-18T07:18:00.000-07:00

Eli sleeping on Dad. What an exhusting Sunday!

What am I supposed to do in this thing again?

Look at that smile!

Nom nom

According to my careful calculations Eli is 23 weeks old woo! (I just had to sit and count because I lost track, so next sunday he'll be 6 months yay!)

Sleeping is still very inconsistant. He has good nights and bad nights. I'm not sure why. He did good all weekend, but now he's back at home with the neices during the day. So we'll see how he does tonight. I think they over excite him during the day and it makes him cranky at night.

I took lots of pictures this weekend, sooo I'm going to post those since I don't have much else to write about. (come on Eli, do something exciting!)

YAY

2008-08-07T06:55:00.000-07:00

We put Eli down about 8:15 last night. He slept like a champ, all the way until about 1 am. Then he wokeup and ate 4 oz. Then slept again nice and solid until 6:15. What a relief. He was on his belly all night too, so he's very easily rolling over now. Which is nice. And I watched him roll from belly to front when he had woke up at 1. Finallllyy a good nights rest. Even though I'm a worry wort and am scared he'll suffocate. But hey back when I was a baby the advice was to always have them on their bellies!

2008-08-06T05:56:00.001-07:00

Well there is my new hair :-D The picture doesn't do it justice. I really like it. It just feels a lot better. And I lost less this morning when I was taking a shower which is good!

Other good news! Eli rolled over yesterday woo! I brought him home from poppop's and Eli was on the floor playing when pretty soon he rolled right over and got into the crawling stance. Then last night, I woke up at 4:17 (amazingly he had not been awake at all!) and he was on his belly. Of course it freaked me out but there was NO WAY I was going to wake him up and flip him over. So instead I laid in bed and used my mind powers to make him wake up on his own. ;P haha. No literally 20 min later he woke up. Soo I fed him and put him in bed and still couldn't fall back asleep. My body is so used to 6 hours of sleep that that's all it seems to need anymore. Which is sad. I miss my 8 hours.

We also had our first completely messy blow out poopy diaper last night. He was sitting in his bumbo chair (THANKS AMBER) and I went to take him out and saw poo on the chair. Im like uhoh! It was nasty. I guess from eating solids. He's been eating solids for lunch time.

Alright well that is all for now! :-D

Exhusted

2008-08-05T07:55:00.000-07:00

Eli's being a stinker and not sleeping good :( He wants to roll over so bad and it seems like every waking moment he has at night is spent trying to roll over. He's pretty much exclusively sleeping on his side now. He can't get himself all the way over though.. so every 2 hours he's awake at night being frustrated. I try putting him on his back but he just goes back to his side and trying to roll over. I've tried putting him on his belly but that just ticks him off. I don't know what to do. All I know is it's getting *really* old not sleeping.

But on a happy note..last night Eli decided to attack me.. in the cutest most awarding moment I've had yet ;) I play 'kissy monster' and smooch his face all over and go nom nom nom. It's fun. Well last night he decided it was MY turn to get the kissy monster. He kept opening his mouth up wide and slobbering all over my face. Then he had ahold of my hair on both sides and would give me a hug.. then slobber all over me some more. I laughed so hard.

Well I'm going at noon to get my hair cut. Hopefully the lady can do SOMETHING to make it not be so plain. My hair is still falling out. (I am hoping just post partum falling out). Soo it's really thin right now and I hate it :( I might have her just shave me bald and give me a wig.

Long Day

2008-08-02T18:48:00.000-07:00

Wow it's been a long day. Eli was up at 4:45, then 5:45, then 7 oclock ready to start the day! He took good naps though which was nice. And he's been eating like a hog today! (Just bottles, and 2 with oatmeal in them). Still haven't heard him say ba again. Oh well. I've read that boys will usually walk before girls, but girls will usually talk before boys.

All I know is that he's a very active little kiddo and wants to be entertained constantly while he's awake. He actually played on the floor with his sesame street gym for awhile which was nice! (See pics above). Those are old pictures (well maybe a month and a half old and apparently when we were in a cold snap because he's wearing long sleeves!!!!) I got that thing at a yardsale for I think 2 or 3 dollars. I figured theres no way he'll like this, it doesnt light up or make noise or do anything interesting! But he's always liked it since the day I brought it home. I guess something has to be said for toys that use some imagination ;)

OKAY well I'm off to bed. Might as well.

Some more pictures

2008-07-31T18:06:00.000-07:00

Eli love his stationary bouncer thing. It's not really bounceable I think :P I'd like to get a jumperoo or something. His favorite thing is trying to fit that big rattle thing into his mouth.

Eli being folded like an accordian. ;) He's getting the hang of sitting. Tonight Ed and I had to go to the chiro and the secretary (who's the nicest lady and always holds Eli while I'm in there) said why don't you let the chiro look at him. Well, he's been mega fussy the past few days and I figured, what could it hurt. The chiro lady (Dr Nikki) is great. She has 3 kids and is a body builder. They dont do the normal 'crack' your back thing. They use a lil puncher thing and a lot of touching of reflexed. Anyway she just stretched his legs a lil. She turned him on his belly and held his knees together and stretched his legs a lil more after touching a few spots on his head. Then she pushed his buttcheeks together. Then she took him, hands under his arm pits, thumbs against his spine and just kinda swooped him down then back up twice. She said that's something you can do anytime.. that you'll hear popping but it's just fluid between the spine. She said when your more comfy with things you can also pick them up by their feet and let them hang upside down. She said their first instinct will be to hold their arms out wide..and that helps stretch them all out and align their spine just right. She explained things really well and I can't recall it all right now, but it made a lot of sense. AND SURE Kids have gone hundreds of years without chiropractic care ;) But if it helps him be a lil less fussy I'm all for it! His one leg was a lil crooked. She said we can turn him over and squeeze his buttcheeks together and look for the length in his legs ourselves. She said mainly you'll see problems if the kid has a fall. BUT anyway it was an interesting experience. I'll probably take him everytime I go so she can check him out :-D

2008-07-31T08:17:00.000-07:00

Eli's messy face after eating some Oatmeal. He's 5 months old in these pics.
"Hey mom, I got some in my eyeball!"
A rare Eli and I photo. Notice our redneck groundhog keep out from under our deck dohickymarig. Dang groundhogs.

Finally!

2008-07-31T08:09:00.000-07:00

Last night Eli slept from 8:30 pm until 5 am this morning. It was much needed bliss. Although of course I was still awake at 3, then 3:19, then 3:30, peeking at the crib like hey .. bud.. hey.... aren't ya gonna wake up and ya know..bug me???

Then he fell back asleep a little before 6 and slept til 7:30. Lil stinker. I had to get up at 6:30 and he got to sleep in!! I left him on the bed and got ready for work. He woke up and I went upstairs to get him and he just got the biggest sleepy smile on his face. It was so adorable. He had his burpie rag and his feet and was like hey mom!!

I swore I heard him say "ba" again between sips of bottle this morning.

Today he's going to try some sweet potatoes. MIL yesterday gave him some turkey and rice dinner, having not been aware that your supposed to start them on one ingrediant foods at a time. He was fine though. She said that he gobbled it down *haha!* I'm sure he did. He was like REAL FOOD!

Up to this point he's just been eating rice cereal, oatmeal with apple juice, and some pears.

Hm well that's all for now!

First Post

2008-07-30T12:34:00.001-07:00

So I should have started this a long time ago but I didn't. Mostly because I'm unmotivated.

This will be my spot on web to discuss my most wonderful son Elias. (Well and he's half his dad's too I suppose) ;)

Elias is 5 months old and is growing so fast! This morning while Ed and I were eating breakfast, Eli very clearly said "ba" three times! I was so excited. I asked Ed if he had heard it, and of course he hadn't. I couldn't get Eli to repeat it. I picked him up and kept going "ba" and Ed kept going "Ba ba!!" and Eli just giggled.

I think he's going to be a blabber mouth like his mom. :-X