Visit from Meemie & Papa

The day after Thanksgiving my family came to visit Eli (Stephen and I know it's all about him.) :) Eli loved all the attention and the constant playmates! Eli and Papa playing the drums...their favorite pastime!

Papa tickling Eli

Eli had his first powdered donut!

He couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough!

Aftermath

Meemie reading to Eli. He already knows red, green, blue, and yellow thanks to this book!

Eli & Aunt Meredith

Eli snuggling with Aunt Rachel

Thanksgiving 2009

We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving over at Stephen's brother and sister-in-law's house with his whole family. The food was, of course, wonderful. Sadly I did not get any pictures of the yummy turkey, gravy, ham, potatoes, green bean casserole, dressing, cranberries, fruit salad, rolls...the list goes on and on! I did however get a ton of pictures of the kids playing outside. It was such a beautiful day and they had fun playing while waiting to eat.You can't see the wheel, but Eli is steering the ship!

Head first down the slide! The boy has no fear!

Swinging with cousins Krystyna and Kymberly.

They are showing him how it's done! :)

Our sweet boy!

Cousins

Grandmommy swinging Eli.

I guess I was slacking off on the picture taking that day because I didn't get any pictures of Eli eating the first time around, but here he his at his second thanksgiving sitting of blueberries and cheese.

We are so blessed and thankful for all our family and friends!! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

20 Weeks!

We had our 20 week appointment and sonogram last week and everything is looking great! Baby is measuring about 5 days ahead, which is better than Eli who was always 1.5 - 2 weeks ahead. I'm feeling pretty good these days and we are so blessed and excited that we have another healthy baby on the way! I'm always amazed at how much the sono pics change from the first appointment. This first picture is our little jelly bean at 7 weeks.

These next three pictures are at 20 weeks. I can tell already that he or she is very cute!! Yes, we made it through the appointment without finding out what the baby is! :) Can't wait to find out in about 4 months though!

Halloween

Our little monkey had a fun week! First we went to the Fall Festival at our church. The had so much for the kids to do!! Eli was a little too young for a lot of it, but he really liked the petting zoo.

Daddy getting Eli all dressed and into his stroller. He really liked holding his tail! :)

Still in a good mood!

Petting the goats! According to Eli, all the animals at the petting zoo say "moo!"

Eli had no idea what to think about the llama.

We tried to get him to be gentle with the rabbit. Gentle is a concept we are tying to teach him at home with Pita as well. It is really hard for him to be gentle when he is so excited! lol

Eli also saw his friends! Here is Eli with cute little miss Audrey!

I think Eli has a crush on Chloe. Maybe he has a thing for ducks??

Eli thought Reece's costume was so cool!

Eli was pretty tired most of the night. This was a common sight.


On Halloween we let Eli help hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Daddy decided he wanted to take Eli to one house, so we walked down the street and around the corner. Poor Eli's hat came down over his eyes, so he had a hard time.

Eli & Daddy walking down the street.

Eli swinging his pumpkin bucket.

Our little Monkey

Eli wasn't sure what to do when the door opened. lol

Meltdown as we walked away from the one house we went to.

Everything was better by the time we got back to our house.

Eli scoping out his one piece of candy. It had nuts so we couldn't let him eat it. He wasn't upset since he didn't know what it was anyway.

Getting caught!!

Coming Home 2009

Last weekend was Baylor's homecoming! We love getting to see old friends and cheer on the Bears (sadly, they lost.) I would love to take Eli to the parade, but we barely made the 11:30 kick off since we drove in that morning. Eli was pretty good for most of the game.

Eli & Daddy before the game with their Baylor gear (i.e. free pom poms and pennants.) Eli was way too distracted to look at the camera.

Sitting on the bleachers like a big boy, watching the game.

Watching Daddy clap and yell.

We went to dinner afterward with some good friends who were also gracious enough to put us up for the night. Here is Eli waiting patiently for our name to be called.

Being a ham!

I wish I knew what he was thinking here...he looks like he is going to get in some trouble. :)

Eli helping us close his suitcase.

We have a stowaway!

Place Your Bets!

Most of you know that we did not find out if Eli was going to be a boy or a girl and we are planning on doing the same thing this time around. But guessing is fun, right? I won't tell you what I think it is...don't want to sway your decision! Take a look at my side bar and place your bets!

100th Post & Balloon Love!

So, I don't think I've been a very consistent blogger since I'm just now getting to my 100th post and I've been blogging for almost a year and a half. However, I guess I've had more to say than I thought I would. I hesitated to even start a blog, thinking I would have nothing to say and no time to post it. Well, I guess Eli changed some of that. He gives me a lot of material and somehow I make the time to post about it...eventually! :)

Eli has a love of balloons (he calls them balls). It first started at his birthday. We kept one of his birthday balloons around after his party and it entertained him for days. He dragged it everywhere.

Last week, we went to Chick-fil-a for a fundraiser for Stephen's school. They had some balloons tied to paper weights all around the store. There were some teenagers in the booth next to us cutting some loose. When they saw us watching them, they asked us if Eli wanted one.

Boy did he!
We tied it to his chair so it would come loose, but I don't think we really needed to. Once he gripped it in his chubby little hand, he was not going to let go.

In the commotion of getting things together to leave, throwing trash away, etc., Eli forgot about his balloon for a second and we were able to get away from the table with the balloon still tied to the high chair. We didn't really want to drive all the way home with him bouncing it around so we could have a screaming fit when we had to take it away from him at bed time. We thought we had escaped.

Unfortunately, as we were walking out the door, a Chick-fil-a employee asked Eli if he wanted a balloon. Here they are...reunited. :)