A year's reflection

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

Eli's Birthday

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

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

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...

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