Fun at Eliud & Krista's house

On Saturday we spent the day over at Eliud and Krista's house. Scott, Trish & their daughter Jessie joined us, and we had a great time hanging out...and eating...a lot...I'm not kidding. So much I felt completely sick by the time I got home...
The boys played darts for a while. Apparently Edgar got a bulls eye, but the dart fell out...likely story...

Eli and Katie watched Sesame Street...for a couple of minutes. Katie was more interested in playing with Eli :) and THAT'S even better than Sesame Street!

Katie was touching Eli's face, and the whole time she was she kept saying 'be nice'...as if she was reminding herself to be gentle.

She was playing 'peek-a-boo', but kept forgetting the 'peek-a' part. It was pretty cute.

Eli...just making sure mom's still nearby...

Katie showered Eli with stickers. She kept putting more and more on him. It was pretty funny.

We ended up eating pizza and playing Sequence, and then headed home. Edgar and I did finally put Eli to bed somewhere other than home. We put him in Krista's pack-n-play, and then moved him to his car seat when it was time to go, and to his crib when we got home. We were a little nervous, because we didn't want him to be up all night, but he did GREAT. He sleeps nice and soundly...like I used to sleep...

Spa day!

On Friday my mother-in-law treated me to a facial. It was so much fun. Jennifer watched Eli while I went off to the spa. (It's hard being a mom...) I met Ruth there and we went in and got our complimentary robe and slippers, and hung out at the pool and hot tub for a while. Then I went for an hour long facial. It was SO relaxing. Although, the first thing the lady said to me was 'It looks like you have some blemishes'...tell me something I don't know :) Mom went in after me for her facial, and I left to go pick up Eli.
The really nice thing about hte day was that mom and dad came over and spent the afternoon and had dinner with us. Abuela played with Eli for a long time. Somehow his book ended up on his head... He had a GRAND time playing. At one point he was giggling so hard. I've decided Abuela needs to come over every day and make him laugh like that :)

A fun update!

Eli rolled over tonight! He's been so close for so long :) He was on the bed with Edgar, and I was making dinner. Edgar called me and told me he had rolled over...so I missed it, but daddy saw it! Now granted, it was on the bed, and he rolled towards Edgar, so he may have had a little help, but he still did it on his own. He rolled from his back to his belly...and then wasn't too sure what to do when he got to his belly-not his favorite position. We'll see if he does it again any time soon.

A new deck and a 'cook-out'

Our newest 'adventure'? We've decided to put our house on the market to see if it will sell. We really hope that we can get a good price for our house, but we will see. Before we can actually list it, though, we have a few minor repairs and 'updates' to do to the house. The first big project was replacing a small deck in our back yard. I didn't get a 'before' picture, but this is the original deck all 'piled up'.

Edgar took a day off of work to get the deck done. he did a really good job, and only has a few blisters from all the hammering (why don't we have a nail gun?!). Here he is hammering in the last board. He just has to seal it, and it is completely finished. He also painted the front door this weekend. It looks really nice-he painted it blue to match all of the trim.

On Sunday evening Edgar went riding with his friend Tim, so Eli and I decided to have a 'cook-out'. This was our little set-up on our new deck.

Eli had a BLAST! He loves being outside! He talked and giggled the entire time we were out there. I think he liked seeing the shadows and looking at the trees. I could hardly eat, because I kept laughing at him laughing. We had a great time. I put a couple of videos on so you could see just how much our little boy enjoys the great outdoors!

Some pictures of Eli

So it's been a while since I've sent any pictures of our handsome little boy, so I thought I'd shoot a few out :) Eli is sporting his Tiger's overalls...unfortunately for the last time :( He's already getting too big for them! We just bought him his Easter outfit, and it's size 12 months! Crazy kid likes to eat as much as his mommy...
Still trying to roll over...

Somehow I think this kid is going to end up a Rays fan...especially since he has a Rays T-shirt in every size! Today he's sporting the American League champ shirt. One more week until baseball season starts! Yahoo!! Can't wait for Eli's first game!

Eli's trying to cross his fingers...hoping the Rays will do as good this year...

Lately he just stares at his fingers and plays with them. Prety cute :)

Jonah

I know I've told you about Jonah before. Today is a big day for their family. They have been waiting three weeks to find out the severity of his disease. Please pray for them today as they get the results. Jonah is healing some, but is still very sick, and it appears to be a bad case...I cannot imagine what they are going through. I look at Eli and am SO thankful that he is a healthy baby boy. I feel so blessed that God has allowed me to have this beautiful child, and I wonder why the Williams family has to go through this.
Read the words Patrice wrote last night (Gabe is their boy that was stillborn 11 months ago):
I wonder if God has brought him into this world just to take him out again. I wonder if my heart could take it. I wonder if my faith really is strong enough to survive it if Jonah leaves. I miss Gabe. I'm broken tonight, praying for renewed hope and new mercies for the morning. Jonah continues to be strong, and my God continues to be mighty. But I feel like I don't believe enough and don't have faith that's strong enough. I know that in my weakness, He is strong. But He doesn't promise us healing for Jonah or even his survival. He promises to work for the good of those who seek him and to make their paths straight. But what exactly does that mean?I just wish, as I lie here in bed, that I had an 11 month old sleeping upstairs in our beautiful nursery and a 2 1/2 week old sleeping beside me in his bassinet.
Please pray.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day one and all! Today Eli and I went to a St. Patrick's day party hosted by one of the moms of the mommy group I am in. (No, the cookie wasn't for the party...it was for Carly's class, but I thought they turned out cute)

The house we went to was pretty fun for the kids. Eli, of course, is too little to enjoy most of it, but I tried to get him to join in the fun...

There was a kiddie pool filled with balls...

...a bubble machine...

...and a jump house. What more could you want? And what did Eli do you ask?

He watched 'Finding Nemo'. Actually he didn't do that for very long. I think the kids all running around started to get to be too much for him, and he got pretty fussy. As soon as we got in the car he zonked out, so apparently he was tired too.

The best part of this party was that it was only 5 minutes from where Edgar works, so we got to eat lunch with daddy!

We went to Applebees. Eli was mostly interested in the tvs all around the room...Oh, and by the way, notice the different outfit. Yes, he pooped through his outfit, right onto his car seat. Fabulous...

We got home shortly after 2 and spent some time playing. Eli's still working on the 'belly' thing. He's starting to enjoy it more. He's taking a nap now. Hopefully it will be a long one, because his other two naps were only 30 minutes long. (Ahhh...wouldn't it be wonderful to nap three times a day?!)

Hope your day was great!