my boys

Elijah- 16 months

Isaac- 4 days

ENJOY!!

E and I

E at 3 days old

I at 3 days old

absolute sweetness

What a joy it is to have an almost 16 month old boy! There is something new to explore and learn everyday. Here's some of Eli's newest sweetnessess......

christmas attire at church last sunday

daddy and eli matching pants

first ever "fort"

crawling through the tunnel and surprising daddy

loving on mommy's belly

We look forward to having another little boy to experience new adventures with!

Me again at 5am.

What is it with pregnancy and waking up at 4am? Yes, after laying in bed absolutely uncomfortable for an hour, I decided to just get up. So far I have watched some PBS, read every possibly interesting news story online, and finished off my fettuccine alfredo from dinner two nights ago. No worries though, because here in about 45 minutes I will finally be tired enough to go back to bed- uncomfortable or not. Plus, Matt's on vacation! Which means a nap for me, even if Eli's not also sleeping. :) So I think now I'll go eat some leftover pancakes, and waste the next 45 minutes online. I should be back asleep about the time everyone else is waking up.

PEEK-A-BOO!!!

christmas at church

We've been busy at church with fun christmas-time activities. This past weekend Matt & I were "Mary & Joseph at the Inn" in the Live Nativity. We had a great time as always, and Eli hated the experience as usual :)

Here we are before going out for our 'shift'.

And this is what we found when we came back after an hour. (Keep in mind that when we left Eli, he was upstairs in the nursery with all the other kids.) He definitely enjoys Mickie's company and eating ice more than a nursery filled with noisy kids. Thanks Mickie!
This was tonight's church adventure -it's always fun with a kid who hates strangers with a passion. Eli's lip was quivering before we ever even got up with santa......so we got a 'family' picture first. I believe Eli is trying to move his shoulder so it's nowhere near santa.
And then of course we forced him to get his own picture with the Jolly Old Guy. Needless to say, the ENTIRE gym knew how Eli felt about his situation.
I believe at this point he was flailing his arms and screaming about as loud as he possibly could while staring at his daddy. When it was over I told Eli he didn't have to see santa again until next year. ;-)
Merry Christmas everyone!

15 month fun times

yes, eli STILL loves to play with the glasses he got at cousin aaron's party 5 months ago! on this day mommy made him seasonly appropriate with a santa hat.

where's elijah?
THERE he is!! under a pile of clean clothes
eli and cousin aaron playing the xylophone....together?