Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted anything. Over a month.... Whoops! Well, as you can guess, a lot has happened in the last month - the biggest being Eli's birthday. We had lots of family and friends help us celebrate and it was a lot of fun. Eli was only slightly overwhelmed at everyone staring at him while he ate his cupcake (or poked at it) and opened his presents (or watched me open his presents while he played with tissue paper:). But it was a great day and we're so thankful to have so many people care for our little boy.
We also had a fence built in the back yard in March and we are LOVING it. No longer do we have to take Zoe out on her leash. We can just open the back door and let her out. We're also able to play fetch with her in the back yard while pushing Eli in his swing. Both Zoe and Eli are thoroughly enjoying that. So that was sort of a big deal around our house.
Eli's no longer crawling at all really. He's a full-blown (dare I say?) toddler. *sigh* How did this happen? In spite of the sadness at no longer having a "baby," we're both so excited to watch how Eli grows and develops on a daily basis. He seems to understand more and more of what we say. And he is constantly babbling. No truly identifiable words are repeated. But he's said "mamama" and "dadada" on a regular basis for a while. He's also stuck on "baba" right now, which turns out sounding like a combination of "baby" and "bye bye". So, we'll see when he decides to really start talking. It's a process. And it's so hard to focus on that when he's got so much exploring to do!
Eli also had his first x-ray last week :( He got his finger smashed in a door at daycare on Friday afternoon, so we had to take him to urgent care to make sure it wasn't broken. After a long couple hours, they told us it wasn't brokren - thank God. But it still looked terrible all weekend and into this week. Unfortunately, I think his poor nail is infected. So the whole process isn't really over yet. But we're just thankful it wasn't worse. It's a really heavy metal, outside door that it got shut in. So it definitely could've been worse.
Well I think that's about it for now. I'll make more of an effort in the coming weeks to be better about posting. I know all 5 of my readers are impatient to hear more of our exciting life :P
