Couch Potato

These are for you, Aunt Laura and Uncle Steve! I found some baby-size "wife beater" tanks and had to get them for Eli! He broke it in with lots of spit-up and drool, which is probably appropriate!

Pics of the family

I realized there's maybe one picture of me and Eli, so I took this today. I think I get more carried away with the picture-taking than John does...therefore, most of the pictures have been of Eli with either John or Boone.

Here's John and Eli after John shaved his beard off.

And we can't forget Boone...here they are playing together with their toys.

Friends

Eli got to play with his friends today. Oldest to youngest (in the first picture) is Eli, Ellaiden, Cash, and Naomi. They had lots of fun posing for pictures...well maybe we had more fun taking them!

What are you doin' Eli

As you can see, John and Eli had fun over the weekend! I don't know what's funnier, John or Eli! John got some good laughs out of Eli with this crazy song he made up. I've had the song in my head ever since!

Darby

3 months old

Yesterday, Eli officially turned 3 months old! I've posted some 3 month old pictures. As you can see the Bumbo is back. Eli enjoyed watching World Cup soccer in his seat.

Today, I had to look at the manual for his carrier car seat to see if he has outgrown the weight/height limit. I don't think he has yet...it's 29 in. and 23 lbs. It won't be long for him to reach that! We've also started putting him in 6 month clothes, and they fit so much better. I guess I'll have to give up the cute clothes he's outgrown for now.

Things are going well, and we are having so much fun with our boy. We do the new parent thing and sit around and stare at him and try to make him laugh a lot.

Darby

No more Bumbo

Well, the Bumbo has seen better days. Eli and I went to the mall this afternoon for a couple hours, and this is what I found when I came home. We are taking care of John's brothers dogs right now, and I guess them and Boone got bored. They've been in the house alone before, but I guess peer pressure took over...Boone probably started it. They couldn't resist the Bumbo...and a magazine and a book. At least it's all replacable!

Darby

The Bumbo seat

Eli is holding his head up pretty well now except for a few occasional bobbles. He loves his Bumbo seat now that his neck is stronger. He can sit up in there and feel like a big boy. He'll sit in there for awhile...it's so cute! The dark spot on his shirt in the picture is from drool!

Eli's friend Ellaiden, a day younger than him, tried out the seat, but as you can see she doesn't fill it up quite like Eli...she still enjoyed it though. I love how she's lounging back with her arm propped up.

Weight update: according to our scale at home, Eli now weighs 19 lbs! Just yesterday I decided to move up to a size 3 diaper due to the fact that he had 3 blowouts 3 days in a row. They are working much better. My friend Jen said that one of her boys was 19 lbs. at one year old. I can't believe my boy is so big!

Darby