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Eli @ the beach!

We went to the Public beach on Siesta Key in Sarasota, FL on Monday, Feb 15th. BUBS loved the beach...he was going nuts! The best thing about the beach for him was the birds, I think. He was yelling @ them and chasing them all around. He was VERY sad when it was time to leave the beach.

Trying something new...

So, there are folks who are not on facebook that would like to see Eli videos...some of them are just too big to e-mail, so I thought I'd try to post them here for all to see. Thanks for your interest!

17.6 lbs and counting!

Mom weighed me this morning. It has been a while since she's made me get weighed and I was 17.6 lbs! Boy was she surprised! I'm getting to be "big stuff" as my daddy tells me! I thought I should let all my fans know what I'm up to these days:

• I'm almost 6 months old (May 12 I will be!)
• I've been sleeping through the night since I was about 2 months old...right now I go to bed around 8 pm and get up around 6:30 am.
• I'm eating "solid" foods...if you call baby cereal & pureed fruits and veggies "solid". I like all these things, but boy do they make me STINKY! I made my Uncle Pete "cry" when he held me on Easter with my toots! Yeah!
• I am working on coordinating my legs and arms so that I can crawl. I'm really close to doing it...in the meantime however, I sure can roll or twist to get where I want to go. Mom has put this one blanket down on the floor in our family room for me to play on and I trick her all the time and roll off of it and all around the room. She always gets after me for "getting off the reservation". Like I'm really going to stay on that blanket! That is like thinking that when you see one of those deer crossing signs that the deer just cross where the sign is! Duh!
• I LOVE my offices. I have a downstairs one and an upstairs one. Normal folks call them an exersaucer and a walker. My family calls them my offices...I do like to do my work there. Mom & dad think I'm in waste management.
• When the weather is nice mom & I go for walks. I like them a lot. I can see all sorts of cool things like birds, cars, and loads of construction equipment. (they are doing lots of work in our neighborhood) I also like it because it puts me to sleep! :)
• My mom & dad are going to dedicate me to God at Church on May 10th. They keep telling me I was a gift from God and that they are supposed to be taking good care of me for Him. They are...I think! They feed me, clothe me, wash me, they gave me a nice bed in a nice room, they have given me lots of fun things to play with, they read to me, they pray with me, and mom sings me fun songs about Jesus during the day and when I go to sleep at night. I've got some pretty great parents!
• I'm kind of nosey...I like to be in the know. I have to check everything out that is happening around me. Not sure where that comes from...
• I love all my cousins! They are fun to play with. They make me laugh!
  
• I like to fly in daddy's air plane. I've been on a few trips in it now and it is fun. Mom sits in back with me and keeps me company while dad flys the plane. I can almost see out the window. It won't be much longer now!
• I LOVE "tubby time"! When mom says "splash 'em" I splash a lot! It is so much fun! I've got a bunch of tub toys that I play with too.
• My new best friends are my feet. My hands used to be my best friends (meaning I really didn't like it if they weren't right up by my face at every moment.), but since I discovered my feet are attached...I love to hold them, pull on them, pull off my socks, and even suck on my big toe!
• While you can't see them yet, I'm working on getting teeth. I really "munch" on everything that I can get in my mouth.
• Ooh, this may sound odd, but I really like breastfeeding now. At first I was kind of lazy (I admit it) and I just didn't like all the work involved in feeding this way, but since about 3 1/2 months old I really like being fed from Mom...but I'm still not a fan of having my head covered when being fed, so mom gives me a bottle when we are out and about, but mostly I don't have bottles. Sorry mom that I showed the funeral director in KY your boob. It was just so stuffy under that blanket!
• I'm trying hard to sit up on my own with out falling over. I can do it if mom holds my legs just right. Most of the time I'd just rather roll around though.
• I'm mom's helper. I help her make the bed every day, I help her do her hair and make-up, I help her make dinner, I help her do the laundry (I love to ride the clean clothes express too...Mom will put me in the laundry basket with the clean clothes to go from out laundry room on the main level to the upstairs. She even makes choo-choo sounds as we go!) I like to be a helper.
• I love my family. I have the best Nana, Grammie, & Papa's!
  

What more is there to say. Maybe Mom will put some pics of me up here for all to see! :)

8 weeks already!

So today I'm 8 weeks old! Here are some of my newest accomplishments:

• I really like my bath time...I dangle my feet over the edge of the sling that is in my baby tub and splash my feet in the warm water. Taking a bath totally relaxes me (for a few minutes while I'm in the tub at least!)
• I can almost turn over from my tummy to my back. I've been practicing and mama thinks I'll accomplish this trick any day now!
• For the past 4 nights I've gone 7 hours from my last feeding of the night to when I wake up...so mommy has been getting more sleep! She puts me down around 10 pm and I sleep until at least 5 am. It is funny how that seems to make her soooo happy!
• Mom put some curtains up in my bedroom that make it really dark in there during the day time...I like that better for taking a nap during the day. Mom has been making me sleep in my crib for my daytime naps...instead of letting me sleep on her or in the swing.
• Today I got kind of mad when I woke up from my morning nap and I worked myself from one of the crib to the other end of the crib. Watch out folks...I'm getting sort of mobile!
• Momma got her hair cut shorter because I was always pulling on it. I like the new look mom!
• Oh, and I'm finally big enough to wear my "boobs" onesie. Dad is very happy about this...he's been dying for me to fit into this. What's the big deal?