My little big boy

Every Sunday we have lunch with 2 other couples. It is our community group through church. Anyway, Eli always loves the attention he gets when we have guests, but today he was something else, it was so cute. So everyone gets here and we have the table all set up and he starts to tell whoever will listen where his seat will be at the table. Next we all gather in the kitchen to fix drinks and get our plates and he looks around and sees everyone has big cups, so he decides he doesn't want his sippy cup. I tell him that's okay and reach for one of his small big boy cups to which he becomes distraught and says he wants one like ours. I finally talk him out of it, cause come on, a 2 year old with a large cup.......yeah, that's what I thought.......anyway, so we all go sit down and he wants whatever we have on our plates on his plate. He is studying what everyone else is doing. He kept looking at Chris sitting next to him and talking about whatever he could think of, like "You drink wemonade?" If someone said something funny and we all laughed, he would look around and laugh with us. He noticed that a few of us reached out for a paper towel and pull it off the roll, so he reached out to do the same. ANYTHING we were doing, he was doing his best to keep up and be a part of the group. I know my writing about it isn't really describing it the way I would like it to, but it's the best I got. It was a precious moment for me, to look at my baby boy and see the wheels turning in his head. To see him make conversation and interact with the group. I've never seen him do anything like this...........Well, enough rambling. I sadly have no video or pictures to show from today, so I thought I would just put a random picture or two up. And since we are talking about my kids, I thought I would add that Lucy is crawling very well and fast AND is pulling up on everything!!!! I'm afraid she will be walking before long. She isn't even 9months yet!

Easter

Happy Easter!

Egg Hunt

Today our church had an Easter Egg hunt. We first met inside where they had kids opening resurrection eggs and talking about the meaning of Easter. We said a prayer and then it was off to the field to "hunt" for eggs. It's kind of funny to me, they just lay them all over the grass, no hiding involved. :) I totally understand, I mean it was for kids 2 and under, but it is still funny to me. Eli filled his basket FULL! He had a great time finding eggs and an even better time opening them to find candy. "chocolate is good, mommy" or "this is yummy" Afterwards we went to celebrate Campbell's 3rd birthday and had more yummy treats! Eli also dyed eggs for the first time and really enjoyed it. He is a very hands on kind of artist, so needless to say he has very orange hands after handling his eggs. We got home a little after lunch and all 4 of us crashed. I haven't taken a good long nap like I did earlier in a long time and boy did it feel so wonderful. I had to make myself get out of bed to fix dinner for my family and get ready for our lunch tomorrow. I think I might just go crawl back in bed right now :)

Up up and away!!!

This last one doesn't even look real, but let me assure you, there is no trick photography going on here. It's crazy cause until I look at the picture I don't even realize how high he throws him in the air! I have fond memories of baseball players from my dad's team throwing me up sooo high at the ballpark. Ahhh..........to be so little again............

Wye Mountain

We headed up to Wye Mountain this morning in hopes of capturing some family pictures. This is what we got. It was beautiful and sunny and windy, o so windy! We had fun over all. There was a girl there taking pictures for our Mom's club. Hopefully she was able to capture some better ones. This is the best of the best out of my shots.

In the car, he decided to smile real big once strapped in and headed home. what a stinker!

This picture really shows how the wind was blowing. Needless to say, our attempts at any with me and the kids was unsucessful mainly due to wind.

I thought this last one was sweet.

I was very pleased with the way the orange looked w/the yellow and green background. I'll have to keep that in mind for next year..........there's always next year............

Lucy laughing

The teeth

I mentioned in a previous post that Lucy has 2 teeth now, but we couldn't ever get a picture of them.............that is until tonight. I was able to get a picture that shows her first teeth. They pretty much came in at the same time. I am happy to report that it was very uneventful for Lucy. Besides a lot of drool, we didn't notice any thing else that can come with teething. Well, I take that back, she did spike a fever a week or so ago, but she didn't act like she didn't feel good and she checked out all clear by the doctor, so maybe that was due to teething. Anyway, bottom line, they are here :) Hopefully the rest will come in as easily.

Girl can eat!

As I mentioned in another post, Lucy has suddenly discovered her love for food! She went from barely eating a jar of food a day to 2 jars and a couple of snacks throughout the day. This picture is of her chowing down on her second zwieback toast stick in like 10 minutes! She must be growing in a serious way!!!

Happy Birthday, Krecia!!!!

Krecia and her fiance Patrick me and the birthday girl
Nathan and Patch
Us
The Group

So, last Friday we celebrated Krecia's birthday. She is one of my favorite people ever! A group of us went to eat at Bruno's that night. We attempted to get a group shot, this is our best one. Hope you had a wonderful birthday Krec. We love you and were blessed to get to celebrate with you.

Kansas City

sneek preview
This is their roommate Carrie

TMNT dude!
Little pig little pig let me in!!!


Gramma and Lucy
Lucy has definitely bumped up the amount of food she eats!!! She couldn't get enough this past weekend.


Uncle Elliott

Aunt Tarah and Lucy

We had the pleasure of spending a long weekend in Kansas City. We went to visit Eli and Lucy's Gramma Gari and Aunt Tarah. O, and we also got to see Uncle Elliott. :) It was a wonderful weekend! Well, the company was great, the weather was cold and rainy. While we were there Gramma Gari made Lucy an easter outfit. It was fun for me to go pick out a pattern and fabric and then watch her put it together!!! It is so stinking cute! We took a couple of pictures when we tried it on to make sure the size was good, but it wasn't complete. I have included a picture, but you will see the finished product after we take Easter pictures on Sunday. Eli was in play play play mode from sun up to sun set. His Gramma had all sorts of toys and dress up clothes and masks and hats.........he never had a dull moment. Thanks for having us!!!! We look forward to seeing you again real soon!

conversations

So, lately Eli has been playing with his action figures and making them talk to each other. Some common things that he makes them say are: "HELP! I'm stuck!" or "HI" "Oh, Hi", etc.....but just now I heard something for the first time. One Buzz figure looks at the other and asks "You poopy?" "Oh, I change you" then a few minutes later Buzz asks "Who's poopy? You Poopy?" It made me laugh and thought it might make you laugh, too. If not, well, I don't know...........

Ryder

We got to have our dear friend Ryder over this morning for a quick visit. It has been too long since we got to play with him. He is getting so big! The snow caused us to cut our playdate short. Thanks for coming to see us Ryder and Annie. Don't be strangers!!! cheese

taking a picture w/the buzz camera phone

do you like my hat?

I have been reading some books on activities to do with children 1-3yrs old. Eli has reached an age that he needs a little more structure when playing. So one of the ideas in the book wasn't anything new or that I haven't heard of, just needed my mind to be refreshed and pushed a little to get in the right direction. If you haven't kind of guessed by the picture we have started a "dress up" box. We decided to start this box about a week or so ago. It started with 2 hats and has quickly become several hats, several fun pairs of sunglasses and 1 hawaiian leis. Eli's nana added a few hats to our collection this afternoon and we had fun playing with them. Here is Eli, Lucy and their Aunt Tarah playing earlier today.