Elijah's new favorite pastime

He sings along to any song he hears. This one is his favorite because each verse ends with an easy word to sing. "saaame. same. SAAME. no no."



Even when he doesnt know the words he says something similar to what he hears. Another favorite is Lady Gaga.... We mostly listen to pop radio.

Show us how YOU dance

Wisdom teeth are successfully out.

Happy First Year of Evie!

Since the first day of spring was a few days ago, naturally Evie's birthday follows. Obviously this girl can't wait to experience spring, because on this day one year ago, she came seven weeks before she was due! I know everybody ALWAYS says this, but it is so true, I CANT BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN A WHOLE YEAR. She is still about the size of a nine month old (we had a side by side with an 8-9 mo old baby girl at Bonnie's baby shower this past week and the younger baby was taller). She is really crawling all around now, army crawling at least, but she is working her way up to climbing over things, namely daddy's legs when he lays on the floor.

When she was born:



About six weeks old:

We had her birthday party about a week and a half ago so that we could celebrate while papa was still in town!
Elijah didnt feel good, so he slept through most of the party, only to wake up to play the kinect with mike and tanner.
Cara and lincoln giving a kiss to Evie

Very impressed with the wrapping
She loves her puppy.


Cupcake!



mainly she licked at the frosting and squished the cake part.
Overall it was really fun, glad to hang out with a couple of friends we dont see very often! And we got to use mike's xbox kinect to see the family in va! Thanks everyone!

PS Elijah was walking around the house yesterday singing "hap birtday... to yooou. hap birtday... to yooou..."

Onward to thursday!

Oh boy it sure has been a wednesday around here. Elijah is driving both me and tony KAh-RAY-ZEE not necessarily being naughty (although he has been a little bit of that). Elijah is loud, naturally, as is most two year olds I imagine, but today he would start being loud yelling things like "LOOK MAMA LOOK CHAAWWCATE *chocolate CHAWCATE WOOOOOOK MAMA MAAAAMA" or "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH BAAAAAAA AAAAAAHH"
and this would only happen when tony and i were trying to talk to each other.

"So today, I have to print this up and drop...
"WOOOOOK MAMA WOOOOK WOOOOOOOK YAAA ...."
"... and dont forget I have to go to the doctors at..."
"BAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAA ..."
"and I need to stop by the..."
"MAMA! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOK CHAAAAAAWCATE WOOOOOK!..."
"STOP IT ELIJAH! STOP IT! QUIET FOR ONE. MINUTE. PLEASE!"
.....
....
whispering, "woooooook mama, chocolate. see?"

"Good job elijah. Yes, you can have chocolate for using the potty."

Everytime he uses the potty, he gets a little piece of chocolate. And he lets you know if he hasnt received his chocolate.

But that sort of situation happened about five times today. Sometimes he would just be loud to be loud, no reason, just wants tony to be confused about what the days schedule will be since I was unable to communicate it to him vocally.

Check out those chompers

Road Trip!

We went out for a drive today and ended up one and a half hours away at the Bonneville Salt Flats! We had never been out there before and decided we wanted to see it before we move this summer. It was pretty cool. Just flat, salty land. Really pretty actually, almost like a beach. Some of it had very shallow water that made it look like a huge lake.



We went to another part down the road, where it was more dry and salty, less wet. and Elijah loved splashing in it. This is the best family picture to date. Minus the muffin top. whoops.

Mid-cough.



Hugsies


Overall, it was a fun day and on a side note Wendover is lame. The End.

Photo shoot

I had an impromptu photo shoot with evie the other day in order to get some cute pictures to put on her birthday party invitations! These pictures are just a sample, Ive saved the cutest pictures for the invitations. Dont worry, even if you dont live in the area, you may be getting one because they are so cute. So, be waiting by your mailboxes this week! This tiny baby is going to be one year old in just two weeks.

Elijah was feeling unappreciated, so he snuck in a few pictures.
Play time or nap time? Evie recently discovered the joys of splashing, thanks to elijah.
She now LOVES bathtime.
DISCLAIMER: there is slight baby nudity in this video. Ok, total. Its a bathtime video. It happens.

Sibling bonding