So Big

This picture was taken when he was 2 weeks old

Here, he was a month and a half

Grow much?

Thank You Cousin Violet....

....for letting me borrow your pacifier when I need to take a nap

....for letting me snuggle with your blanket to keep me warm

....and for sharing your bow so I can look pretty

You're the best!

Tummy Time Mat

Somebody loves his tummy time.......

Who? Me?

Father's Day

Father's day was very low key. Eli and I sent Mike off to get a massage for being such a great daddy. He came home, we ate dinner, and met Todd and Brittney at the pool to swim. Eli loved swimming with Daddy and uncle Todd. Earlier in the week, Claire and I took Eli to go swimming for the first time. He was very calm about the whole experience, somewhat boring, but I can't complain, at least he wasn't screaming. Here are some highlights from the day....

Eli and Daddy hanging out

I don't really know what this face is for, but it's heartbreaking.

Eli loved swimming with Daddy and Uncle Todd....

....so much that it wore him out (I swear he can breathe)

These pics are from his first swim. Notice the same expression in every picture, I hope he gets more exciting.

Tired boy

Happy Father's Day!

Cousins

Eli loves his cousins so very much. During our recent trip to California we got to hang out with them ALL the time. We all stayed at my parents house together (that's right, four of us girls and two babies. It was a blast!) minus Jenny and the boys, they stayed at their house. Party poopers. Anyway, I've been told one too many times that I suck at blogging and I need to post more, so I'm going to attempt a post a day. That is very ambitious to say the least, but hey shoot for the stars right? So here's the first of many more to come!

First off, Jayms has grown up so much and is such a helper. During this trip he was V's personal body guard, always looking out for her. Here, her sock fell off and he was helping her put it on.

Here he is looking as cute as ever, and taking a picture of Eli with his camera (it's really a metronome).

Here is sweet Jayms telling Eli to not kick him.

Jayms has a thing for playing footsie with everyone, Eli was no exception.

Something tells me V won't have any trouble holding her own amongst these boys....

They'll learn to play nice.

Kroger Kidnapper

So the other day I went to Kroger, it's a grocery store in Texas, and as I'm browsing the spice aisle for some cumin this short, fat Russian lady comes up and is admiring Eli.  He is asleep in his carseat being a doll.  She's oohing and aahing at him and not paying much attention to me, so I turn back around and continue my search.  She asks me how old he is and I tell her, "7 weeks."  She tells me how cute and precious he is.  She then proceeds to warn me, while still staring at Eli and in her creepy Russian accent, "be very careful, people steal babies.  Especially precious babies."  My search for the cumin comes to a screeching halt, my main goal now is to keep this Russian lady from waddling off with my son.  So I put my hands back on the cart and hover over the carseat.  She then starts touching and tickling his feet.  I seriously thought she was going to ask to hold him and I was prepared to just start running.  I smile nervously at her and check that the carseat is buckled and tightened.  At that point, Eli wakes up and starts crying.  She smiled and walked away, so i assumed she was done with him.....or so I thought.  I think I'm in the clear so I continue looking for that damn cumin, when I see her lurking a few feet away.  She ended up going up and down and circling the aisle two or three times, all the while peeking up at Eli and mumbling how precious he was.  I finally found the stupid cumin, threw it in the cart, and sprinted to the checkout counter.  Moral of the story, don't have cute babies.  I can't blame her, how can you not love this sweet boy?