I can't believe that my second-to-most-recent post was about Eli's second tooth. Now he's on his 13th and 14th. I received some razz from facebook about knowing exactly how many teeth he has, but I am a woman of facts, and people always ask me! I know that he HAD 12, and now he is getting the molars right next to the "fang" teeth. The incisors. At the exact same time. I also know that he needs to have 20 by the time he's 3. Or at least that's what I've heard!

The other day, Ian had to drop Eli off at my work because the sitter had an appointment and needed Eli to be picked up early. Of course the first thing Eli did was start to explore. He found a picture frame with his picture in it that looked like it had bubbles in it. He studied it very hard, and I said, "Eli, that's you when you were a baby!" A few seconds later he said "baby." I thought it was so awesome that he recognized the picture as a baby but didn't know he was the baby :)

knock knock.

anyone home?

Have been meaning to start this blog up again a LONG time ago, just now getting to it. Ian's away shooting a wedding in Ft. Myers, I'm on the couch watching 48 hours. I know I won't be able to sleep until Ian is home safely!

Of course, if I could sum up the past days of missed blogging, I would. But I can't. So I will just start from here!

Eli is such a joy. He makes me laugh all the time. He is so darn cute. He has a temper like no other, but for now it doesn't bother me too bad.

Another favorite thing about Eli right now involves his eating habits. Ian and I are not the best eaters, that's obvious, but Eli makes all the right choices! He will pick vegetables over sweets, fruit over carbs. No wonder he's so skinny! It sucks that I can't get him to eat regular foods but when he gets excited about eating tomatoes....what can I do?

Eli says Thank You like its his job. He says it whenever I hand him any kind of food or drink. I'm torn between thinking that he says it out of pure habit, or says it because he actually knows what's going on. Either way, I love it, and it's so sweet when he says these words.

That's all I have for now, hopefully i'll be able to update more often, so that future Eli will get a kick out of reading my adventures as a new mama!

2nd tooth!

Eli's second tooth cut through today! He was very distraught, hopefully he will feel better tomorrow. But of course he's still the best baby ever even if he's in pain.

On Wednesday, Eli’s babysitter Cheryl called me at work to tell me that she was breaking out in spots. Her daughter Tessa, whose daughter she also watches, said that they were chickenpox. AHH Chickenpox! It took all I had, but I didn’t leave work to go pick him up. Apparently chickenpox can lay dormant for 2 weeks before the spots appear, so Eli has definitely already been exposed to it! So for now it’s just a waiting game. I suppose it wouldn’t be the most awful thing in the world for him to get it this young, at least he can’t scratch! I just don’t want to see my poor little monster uncomfortable!

A week ago, I ran my first (hopefully of many) 5K on Saturday with Andrea, Dara, and Melissa. I ran it in 30 minutes. It felt really good to finish, even if I didn’t get a great time. I haven’t run in a very long time!! I had so much fun.

Busy busy busy!

We have been super busy lately, hardly a spare moment to update this blog! But I did want to keep everyone updated on Eli!!

He got his FIRST TOOTH today!! I just knew it was coming, I could see it at the surface, then while he was at the babysitters today, POOF it came out!! I'm very excited. Although tonight was a tough night, I think there's another tooth soon to follow.

In the past week he's also done really good with holding his own bottle. This may not sound super exciting, but it is to me!! He also is doing pretty good with his baby food; he's been practicing eating without pushing it all out of his mouth!!

Eli is sleeping through the night like a champ!! We put him in his crib at about 8:30, and he lays there until he falls asleep! Then he sleeps until 7:00 or so!!

I heart yard sales

FINALLY Ian and I were able to make it to some yard sales this morning. It is NOT Ian's favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning, but he is a good sport about it! I don't like going alone, it makes me nervous walking up to strangers homes!

Anyway, we did pretty good today. We basically just go to look for baby things now. We weren't very successful until we went to a sale that was being put on by Edge Cheer Center. There were BINS of little boy baby clothes for .50 a piece. Jackpot! I bought 14 shirts/pants/shorts. I also bought 6 books for Eli for $1. Then there was a cool toy there--a friend we ran into at the sale said that she had the same toy and it was $30 at Walmart, and we got it for $5!! He loves it.

Fish face!!

Eli's newest "trick"--

Eli eats from a spoon again!

After a 2 week break, Eli took food from a spoon tonight!! YAYYYY! I actually mixed some apple sauce with it, he seemed to like that a bit better. Check out this silly boy!!

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