1 year check up

Today Eli went in for his one year check up. Everything was good except he has pink eye AGAIN, and a runny nose. The doctor says if we keep having problems with his eye we will have to send him to an eye doctor. I hope this round of eye drops goes a lot better!

Here are Eli's current stats:

Height: 31 in. 75%tile

Weight: 23 lbs 8 oz. 50th%tile

Head: 17.75 25%tile

Other things to note from the visit:

• Last time I went in for a well visit I got a new Dr. Auxier I loved him then, and I love him even more now. He is a great doctor. Has tons of advice, very helpful, spends time with you and I just plain like the way he does things.
• Dr. Auxier gave me a mommy talk it was nice because he always warns me of things that are going to happen so I am ready. He gave me a pep talk to help me through the next 18 years. Some major pointers from this pep talk were: how to deal with fits, time outs, feeding, weaning, adjusting to a less cuddly baby...things like that. It was really cute and helpful
• Eli got two more shots. One in each arm. He hated it and screamed until we left the exam room. However as soon as I opened the door Eli stopped crying and was smiling. The girl who gave him shots was outside the door and he had already forgiven her I know this because he started smiling and flirting with her again.
• Eli is cute and I love him!

Da Da Happy Birthday Eli

So today was Eli's first birthday. It was fun because yesterday I kept thinking at this time a year ago we were doing.....(fill in some detail of my delivery here) Then around 1:20am Eli woke randomly. Instead of being grouchy I thought how sweet this was because Eli was born at 1:52 a.m. so it was pretty close to the real first time I held him. I just cuddled and kissed on him. I wanted to cry a little because I am sad my baby is getting so big, but I couldn't let myself I am sure Jacob would think I was crazy if I did let myself cry. So today was close to a normal day except I finished Eli's giant cupcake, and we went to lunch to celebrate my dad's b-day, and Eli's. We ate at Oregano's, and we had a pizzookie when they brought it out was sang to Eli and he had the biggest happiest grin on his face. Lee said he was so cute how excited Eli got. It was hard getting everyone together, because this whole week Chase had a Baseball tournament in Peoria so everyone was out there for his games. Anyway we are having everyone over later to watch Eli eat his cupcake, and sing to him again.

These are all the pictures from the first part of his birthday...

Now for the 2nd part....

I went home and finished the 2nd cupcake. This cupcake was more of an experiment with colors, and candies to see what was best. Debbie kept calling this a cupcake on acid, but I think it still turned out pretty cute. Then after dinner Linda and Cecil came to my parents house and we opened up Eli's present from them. Then we let him loose on his cake. He ate a really big lunch before that so he didn't dig into the cake like I thought he would, but he still had a lot of funny just grabbing the cake.

Things I want to remember...

• How cute and excited Eli got the 1st time we sang happy birthday to him. I am 100% positive that he had no idea what it meant, but he sure loved everyone looking and singing at him.
• Eli's sweet spirit. He is truly I loving sweet child. He likes to cuddle up on someone...ex specially me!
• Aly and Ethan got him a truck that he just loves. Along with the truck Aly made him a card which said, "Dear, Eli, I hope you have a great first birthday! I'm so excited that I get to see you!" Have fun from Aly. Aly and Eli have become little buddies. Since she was gone in Peoria so much he hasn't got to see her so they have missed each other very much. Oh yeah and Aly put $1 in there because Eli turned one! How cute.
• I also want to remember how hard, fun, rewarding, stressful, funny, and exciting this past year with Eli has been. Even though I am tired or it is just plain harder to go places now it is all worth it to have this sweet baby boy in our home and lives.
• My dad and Eli share the same birthday. I think that is such a sweet think for Eli to share with his Papa. They love each other so much!
• How fast a year goes by. I want to soak up my baby and enjoy him I don't want to look back and think I missed to much or made him grow up to fast. I want to enjoy these sweet tender moments with him.

A year ago today we got this...

Happy Birthday Eli!!

Pioneer day

This past weekend we went up north to celebrate the 24th of July which is pioneer day. We were originally going to leave on Thursday morning, but since I had boot camp and Eli had one more swimming lesson we pushed back our departure. We left Friday afternoon after Eli's swimming lesson (which he is doing great at). We got to the cabin and just relaxed until the Gilmore's got there in the early evening. We ate dinner and then went for a walk which ended up with Eli getting the creek and riding in his blue truck naked. I am sure he just loved the freedom of that! The next morning we got up pretty early and drove to snowflake for the parade. Poor Eli got a bad eye again and it was watering so bad. Luckily my uncle bill was able to call in a prescription so we all headed off to Showlow to get him some eye drops. Everyone wanted to go to Showlow anyway for lunch and get some DQ. Steph and Jerel say that DQ in Showlow is the best one around. I got a root beer freeze and poured some in a cup for Eli he went CRAZY! He loved it and I honestly have not seen him go that crazy over something since he was a tiny baby. After our desert we went and hung out on Uncle Gayle's land with some family. Eli went and saw cows and horses and was a nice dirty boy. Then we headed to Uncle Doug's where he made yummy green Chile we played games. After games Jacob went to the Rodeo which he said was a blast and I went Steph and Doug's family to watch Mark (Becky's husband) perform at his 20 year reunion. Mark did a great job and it was very funny. We finished off the night by watching the fireworks on tee box across from the temple. It was such a pretty view with the temple and the fireworks. We had a great trip!!

Rain!

So last night we had the biggest thunderstorm EVER!! I couldn't believe how loud the thunder was, and all the lightening. I normally LOVE it when it does this, however the whole night I was worried about Eli and that he would scare him. Around 5 am Eli woke up crying (not cause he was scared) I figured I would do better if he was in bed with me. So I moved him in our bed and then when he got up I took him outside and let him look at the rain. It was really cute. I know it has rained since Eli's birth, but this was the 1st time he actually saw it coming down and stuff. I wonder what he thought of it...

p.s I loved that top picture how everything around Eli was blurry...also the last one is cute because that is Jacob driving away and Eli would not get in the water, but then he saw him dad and he didn't care, he wanted to go with Jacob!

Ethan turns 6

Ethan's birthday was today. Since his Chase has been having a lot of games, and Ethan's birthday fell on a Sunday his parents gave him the option of not having the party, but having the party money. Ethan really liked that idea, and did not have a party. However we always have a birthday dinner so Ethan picked the meal for us to cook and we had dessert. Afterwords we played with one of Ethan's new toys. It was like a magnifying glass that shows everything on your TV. We had fun putting it on everything from our skin to inside or ears. We had a fun time on Ethan's big day!

This little boy makes me laugh...

Eli has been doing the cutest funniest things for a while now, and I forgot to write about them. So in an attempt to remember how fun and funny this boy is here are a few things he does that get us laughing.

• He fake laughs. That's right whenever there is someone and they laugh out loud Eli will follow up with a little laugh of his own. This even works when it is on TV. He will not even be watching it, but then hear people laugh so he will stop look up and start laughing too!!


• Eli also play peek a boo. I know all babies do this, but Eli started taking towels and things like that to play with after his baths. Or hide behind something and then pop out. Oh he is funny. Jacob and I also scare him a lot for fun so I have noticed he tries to do it too. He will come around a corner all fast with a smile and make and noise...so funny.


• He mimics us. For example yesterday I felt really nauseous so I make like a yulk ewww noise and two seconds later Eli does the same thing.


• Now this is the best thing (ok after the fake laugh I am pretty sure that is my fav) Eli yodools. I don't know where he got this from but ever since Memorial day Eli will make this funny yodool sound lie lowlee lowlee he does it a lot when he gets really excited or when he hears us do it. I just was reading this to Jacob and Eli hears me and started doing it. Oh man I love this little boy.