10 Months, Park Day

Eli's 10 Month Favorites List:
  - Food! Especially pancakes, blueberries and cheese.
  - Climbing stairs
  - Touching the computer (a no, no)
  - Playing in water (baths and pools)
  - Going 'out', doing something different that normal
  - New things to explore
  - Watching people
  - Playing with cell phones


Park Day!

 Last Saturday Josh's sister Rachel called us and asked if we would like to meet them at the Independence park for the afternoon. We excitedly packed up and drove over to the park! Eli is a little young to enjoy running around the park with Cousin Scout just yet, but we had a good time nonetheless. Lots of park day pictures (and you wouldn't believe how many I left out)!

I'm not sure what this expression is, but it looks like "now what?".

He wasn't too sure about going down the slide, but he can climb up!

Playing in the chopped tires with Dad.

Watching Scout ride the carousel.

Getting a little sleepy...

 At this point, Eli took a nap in the stroller while we walked through the zoo part of the park. Gram and Gramps drove up and met us at the park for the rest of the afternoon; they arrived while Eli was sleeping and showed great restraint as they did not wake him up from his nap, and pretended for a while that they were there to see us instead of him. :)

Stopping for a drink before riding on the little train.

Only some ends up on his shirt...

Cousins!

We told Scout to give Eli a kiss... Eli leaned in too... it was classic!

Scout was so proud!

Waiting in line for the train

Eli really didn't care one way or another about the train...
he actually looked a little bored.

Scout was looking all around!

"What was that back there?"

Eli, looking at something inside the train...

"Is it over yet?"

Picnic dinner... Uncle Josh gave Scout a cookie before dinner!
Shhh, don't tell his mom!

"Hey! You have a cookie?!?"

"That's not right..."

"...and all I get is this crumb?!"

"Oh, a piece of apple"

Shove it in!

"Oh, no..."

"This isn't happening..."

"The food's all gone!"

"Wait a minute..."

"Nope, he doesn't have any more food either!"

So, we packed it up and took our tired boys home.


Monkey Pictures

  He's pretty active these days... and when I say active, I mean the kid only stops to sleep and eat... and sometimes just sleep. In light of the constant activity, it is getting harder to take 'sitting' pictures, so I let him play with something he usually doesn't get to; a pencil. It worked long enough for me to get a few pictures!

Sharing the pencil with monkey

"Monkeys don't like pencils?"

"That's just silly!"

And we're done with the pencil... moving on to something else.

"Hmmmmm..."

He found a book!

He's very intense about his stories...

...and makes funny faces!

Random Pics

Eli just broke through a new tooth on the top this week, taking the tooth count up to 3! I'm sure number 4 won't be far behind...

A few weeks ago, I was working in the kitchen and he was playing on the floor, and I look down to find him chowing down on a tomato! We had some produce in a bowl where he could reach it (apparently!), and he decided to try out something new! I was surprised, but he ate almost the whole thing and, not surprisingly, made a big mess of tomato juice and seeds everywhere.

So proud of himself!

Then, only a few days after the tomato incident, he did the same thing with a peach. Josh and I were both working in the kitchen in the process of getting a box of peaches ready to freeze, Eli had just eaten and was playing on the floor; we look down and he found something else he wanted to eat! And he ate the whole, big, ripe peach! A minute later, all that was left was a pit and a very sticky boy. Happy, but sticky.

He loves his books. They might be more of a play thing at this point, but he likes to take them all off the shelf and then sits down and turns the pages.

"She caught me! Run away!"

He is also becoming handy around the house... he is fascinated by the dust mop and likes to chase it around, but the vacuum he's still not sure about. He just sits and stares at it. Doesn't cry or fuss, but doesn't try to play with it either. After I'm done sweeping the floor, I let him play with the dust mop, and he will hang on to that thing until I take it away. He will try to crawl with it, but that doesn't work very well, so he gets mad, but still will not let go of it!

"I can do this"

I'm working on the 10 month pictures and pictures from the park last weekend.... Coming soon!