first food

Today was his first taste of solid food. Though it was fairly "unsolid" actually. Avocado and milk. And he seemed to like it!

Sewing with stripes

Over the weekend I sewed Eli some short pants (or just shorts?) with an old striped shirt of mine I don't wear. I like how they turned out and hope they'll still fit him as we move into warmer days! I also made leg warmers out of the sleeves. Both were nice and easy.

Chubby

Caught in the right moment his cheeks look so chubby (and all those chins!). I love his serious look as he examines his toys (on his new exercauser which is a hand me down from a friend and totally worth every ounce of it's "plastic monstrosity" status in our space as he loves to stand up and bang on things :).

Love.

Bath time

Moon is in charge of bath time around here. But he let us watch the other night as we wanted to see the baby splash and kick like crazy. My favorite part remains scooping him up in a big towel at the end!

Grandma in pdx

We're having a great time with my mom! A walk in Laurelhurst park after picking up drinks at the Belmont Stumptown. And on Friday night she stayed home with (a sleeping!) Eli so Moon and I could go to dinner--our first "official" date in 6 months. It was wonderful.

Grandma is in town!

And we're loving it!

just hanging out

It's been a long week already in many ways. I have just a few more weeks of work, but some days it just feels like an hour is longer than I can bear, let alone a week or 3! But I want to finish well and even on the long days I know I'll be given enough strength to get through it. This makes me so appreciate these pictures of my two favorite guys just hanging out and enjoying each other (and practicing sitting up!). Oh, and my mom's coming tomorrow for the weekend (yay!), so things are looking up real fast!

on a walk

Yesterday was one of those days when you just needed to get out and enjoy the sunshine. So we did the 4 mile walk to a wonderful park in our part of town. The path is along the river the whole way. And I had to remind myself that I did parts of that same walk pregnant, just looking forward to doing it with the baby on the outside :). Now that spring has arrived we can!

My sous chef

He likes to sit up these days and tonight while I was chopping during some dinner prep, I decided we'd try out the high chair. The chopping interested him greatly and I enjoyed watching him, so I guess we were both content. I can't wait until he's old enough to start really cooking with me (though no chopping in his foreseeable future :).

growing boy.

Some mornings when I awake to my sweet baby, I just look at him and think he must have grown so much overnight. How we are loving each new day... watching him learn, grow, and express himself.

He often leaves his mommy and daddy telling each other how deeply in love with him they are. We feel so blessed.

Happy Easter!

mock pediatric patient

We signed the baby up to be a practice pediatric patient to the first year medical students. He did a great job, let all those white coats listen to his heart, hold him, check his reflexes, and so forth. And his daddy was keeping a close watch on it all...