Look what Eli does ALL the time! Climbs! He loves that little chair, he's forever climbing up on it. He's pretty close to being able to climb up onto the couch from it.
Don't mind the bare chest... Daddy gave him raspberries and didn't put a bib on him. I came home to a half naked baby. Anyone want a pink shirt that used to be white? Men.
My silly girl has my grace, or lack thereof. :( Last week she fell face first on Jens driveway, messing her nose up pretty good. Lots of bandaids and neosporin, it's just about healed. So what does she do? She tripped in the hallway at home and went face first into the door trim. So now she has a mark from the top of her forehead, through her eye and down her cheek. It's starting to heal, the black and blue eye is just about gone. I need more bandaids, we're going through them pretty quickly lately!
We lost our baby. He's a big boy now! He walks really well with a push toy, just a matter of time and he'll be off running on his own!
I think he thinks Paisleys name is out. He says it quite frequently when he sees her. I do tell Paisley, constantly, OUT! when Eli is in his high chair. Funny, Haidyn called Paisley Kong when she was little, guess Eli had to have a fun nickname for her too. :)
If anyone has any doubts about Eli keeping up with his sister in the ” smarts” department, you can put them to rest. The other day we were eating breakfast and Eli was playing with a few pieces of toast and says, ”alldone,” and makes the sign. I repeated all done and he did it again! I text Jen and ask if she's been teaching sign language to Eli. She replied that they do a lot of sign there because one of the two year olds isn't speaking and the therapist wants him to sign to help communicate. Eli picked it up!
I'm not really sure what words he can speak. It's still pretty garbled and nothing is consistent. He'll say Hi-ya for Hi sometimes. He's said Alldone, as in one word. He says something like Come and makes the hand movement, like you would do for come here. He makes up a lot of words with the H sound. I think he's trying to say Haidyn. :)
We went to Lords Park pool today. Eli of course had fun splashing in the water, but the big shocker is ...... Haidyn went down the big slide all by herself! They wouldn't let us go down together, so she went down one and I went down the other. I couldn't get over to her fast enough, so she went under. She was a little freaked out and didn't want to do it again, but it didn't stop her from wanting to jump into the pool from the side. Yay!
It's so good to see that Haidyn and Eli play well together. :) And this is only the beginning. I can't wait to see how they are together when they're older!
Elias has a mouthful now! Four on top and two on the bottom. You'd think he'd sleep better now that they've popped through. Oh well, I should just give up on the whole sleep thing. At least he's cute. :)
Eli celebrated his first fourth of July! We went to the Elgin parade and both kids had a good time. I'm very surprised Eli was as good as he was. It helped that we were smart this year and went early to save seats in the east side of the street so we were shaded instead of roasting in the sun on the west side like we usually do.
Now we're home and enjoying the air conditioning. It's a HOT one today!
