Monday, March 18, 2013

One & A Half Years Old!

Eli,
Sweet boy, you are a year and a half old, half way to two years! It seems like yesterday we were bringing you home from the hospital, where does the time go?! You are the perfect fit for our family of 4 and I wouldn't have it any other way! You are learning and growing so much and you have the cutest, sweetest, funniest little personality! We LOVE you so much, Happy 1.5 Birthday!!!

Love,
Mommy, Daddy & Rylee 
  • You are wearing size 6 shoe, size 5 diaper, 12-18 month shorts/pants and 18-24 month shirts.
  • You are a little parrot and try to say everything we say, but words you say on your own are: mama, daddy, sissy, Ruger, doggie, go-go, eat, shoe, boot, hat, dude, nah-nah (no), yes (have only said 2-3 times), nana (banana)
  • You are signing: eat, thank you, please, help, more, milk, snack (you made up on your own, its very close to the sign for milk)
  • If we ask you a yes or no question you will either shake your head no or say with much enthusiasm "yeah!"
  • You know all your facial features and most body parts.
  • Most of the time I can tell you to go get me a diaper to change you and you will go and get one.
  • When you poop you say, "Ewwww!"
  • You just started taking one nap a day, the time change really caused this. You are now sleeping till 7 or 7:30, instead of 6 or 6:30 and napping 2 to 3 hours.
  • You always eat a HUGE breakfast and then don't really care too much about lunch, but then will pig out again at dinner.
  • You are a total sweet monster, you love cake, cookies, donuts, ice-cream, candy, you name you love it and want it all the time!
  • You copy everything your sister does, including the naughty stuff. 
  • You love hats and shoes! You are constantly putting on Ry's dress up shoes (Daddy is not a fan of this), our shoes and slippers. You also love to wear hats, or underwear (clean of course)!
  • You are super silly, instigating fights with Rylee, not listening, dancing crazy and making silly facial expressions.
  • You love to play outside with Ry and the big kids in our cul-de-sac. You love to slide and swing and just run wild!
  • You love to play with the vacuum and you don't mind the small one for the tile, but will stay clear of the big one for the carpet.
  • You hate to get water in your face, which concerns me with your upcoming swimming lessons.
  • You can climb pretty much anything you want to, not sure who you got that from ;0)
  • You love to wave and blow kisses to people, even complete strangers. We will be walking to the car from a store and you will wave at cars driving by or people just walking by, you're a HUGE flirt!
  • You LOVE to snuggle and this makes me extremely happy!
  • You still love your blankie and thumb, but it's ok with me because it's extremely cute!
Happy Half Birthday sweet, silly, handsome little man! We LOVE you to pieces!!!


Wednesday, March 6, 2013

tHiS & tHaT

 Eli watching Ry play on her Nook.
Ry has this nice little habit of wanting milk to go to sleep. She will literally fall asleep with her cup still in her mouth. If she's nice and out, I can usually just take it. But, if she is not she will grab it and keep sucking. I told her I'm just going to get her a pacifier, she didn't like that idea.
 Eli came running into the family room one morning to show me what daddy did, cutest thing ever!
 I was getting ready and Ry wanted to hang out with me and play on my phone. This kid is "kookoo" for technology toys! Just ask Chrissy about her iPad sometime....
Brad & I had a nice weekend getaway to Austin a couple of weekends ago. Eli stayed with my parents and Ry stayed with her cousins. Ry had a blast sleeping over with her cousins, eating out, Chucky Cheese, church and playing on the iPad! Thanks for setting the sleeping over standards so high guys! Needless to say, Ry was wiped from her fun weekend and fell asleep watching a movie with daddy.
 Ry helping Eli ride the scooter!
 Ry fell asleep on the couch. I thought her sweaty hair was hilarious and reminded me of Ace Vantura!
 This picture is blurry, but you can clearly see that Brad needs to get to work on adding some cabinet locks!
 Ry went to a pony party several weeks ago, she just loves animals! We decided to do a petting zoo party at our house for her birthday, but once we came back to this place for a friend's party, it reminded me that I don't want all this at my house! So Ry is having her party at this place this year! They have several different types of pony rides, a playground, and face painting!
So cute!
 Although Eli still doesn't have very much hair, the hair he does have is in the middle of his head. The front is super long and hangs between his eyes and it looks silly. If I brush it over to the side it looks cute, but it doesn't stay. If I gel it over to the side, it looks kinda creepy. So, the Mohawk I think looks the best....and it's way cool!
 Eli has so many silly sleeping positions. I need to gather all the pics and do a post of just him sleeping.
 Little gymnast!
 Check out her landing from jumping off the tall beam!
 I only see about half of what Ry does in gymnastics. The other half, I'm chasing around this guy...
 I took this pic of Ry after I curled her hair. It's getting so long!
 Sweet sleepy boy!
 Sleeping Beauty, I just love this picture!
 Eli makes this face All.The.Time! I was so excited when I finally caught it on camera!
Ry practicing her casting in the backyard. She's quite the little pro!