Great find!

Brent got a package delivered in the mail the other day and opened it after Eli went to bed. He left it out and the next morning it took Eli about 3 seconds to discover the box. He had lots of fun playing in it with his "buckets". Being two must be so much fun!

I love the mischief face he gives me when he dumps the foam out of the box.

Getting ready

I've been pulling out all of our baby equipment over the last week. Trying to get it all cleaned and organized, all the batteries in things, making sure things work. Eli doesn't remember any of it so he's been having fun exploring everything. The other day I walked into the baby's room and there was Eli, swinging in the swing. He was pretty proud of himself that he got in there, too bad getting out wasn't as easy!

Sprained Ankle?

Eli has had a rough month. He had a hospital visit for a gash on his forehead, got his bottom two 2 year molars, had hand foot and mouth disease and now, today, he woke up complaining that his foot hurt. At first I thought that it was just asleep but he was still complaining 45 Min's later so I knew it had to be more serious than that. I took him to the Dr. and looks like he's sprained his ankle or foot somehow. He had an x-ray today so we'll hear from the radiologist tomorrow but the tech said she didn't see a break. Eli won't walk on it at all and is back to crawling which is funny to see since he's been walking since he was 10 months old! Needless to say he spent more than a few hours in front of the television today. With me being 32 weeks pregnant and him weighing 31 lbs and immobile it doesn't make for much activity.

Morning couch session

Mid morning couch vacuuming

Getting grumpy. Isn't it supposed to be nap time Mom? (his Dr. appointment fell right smack dab in the middle of nap time - of course!)

Getting a reacquainted with the floor

He's two!!

Eli turned 2 a few weeks ago. The past year has just flown by. He's gone from a baby to a little boy in the blink of an eye. We had a little party on the Thurs before his birthday at home, then a big family party to celebrate both Evelyn and Eli's birthdays at the Rex's.

Here are 10 things about Eli at age two:

1. He's becoming quite the performer. He loves to make people laugh and his current favorite is making funny faces to strangers in line behiend us in grocery lines.


2. Every little scrape needs a bandaid and not a small bandaid, but the biggest one possible.


3. If he could be naked all day he would be.


4. He loves to copy his Dad. If Brent says a word or makes a face during a meal, Eli says it. He pretends to do whatever he is doing. He dances like him, he laughs when he laughs even if he doesn't understand what is funny. He asks for him first thing in the morning and gets SO excited when Brent comes home from work.


5. He asks for more before he's even finished whatever he's eating or playing with.


6. Trucks, airplanes, motorcycles, diggers, dump trucks....you name it. If it has wheels, Eli will like it. He stops to watch the neighbors mow the lawn because of the lawnmower. He's got the boy truck obsession!

7. He loves the water. He's not scared at all of it. He loves waterslides, the bigger, the better. The waterpark and especially the big bucket at the southland leisure centre is his #1 favorite thing to do. Even just pouring water from one bucket to another in the back yard can entertain him for quite a while.

8. He loves having company over to our house. The more people to play with him - the better.

9. He can ride a tricycle all by himself.

10. He always pretends to be cooking Eggs. If he's into the pots in the cupboard, or using the play kitchen, if you asking him what he's cooking, it's either Eggs or "hot coffee".

Newest Etsy Find

We are decorating Eli's new room in an airplane theme which he just loves. My newest Etsy purchase is this world map for his room by Marley Ungaro. I just loved all the details on it and thought it would not only look great, but be educational as well. I ordered the biggest size possible. I can't wait to see how it looks in his room.

Third time is the charm

Three clogged toilets in just as many days. It's time for toilet locks at our house. Eli even clogged the ensuite with half a box of q-tips, fun times. At least he's not afraid of a flushing toilet!

Still no camera to be found...it's like finding a needle in a haystack around here.

Hold hand, come downstairs, Daddy.

We are moved in, and in the process of unpacking. We looked like hoarders for the first week with stuff in every single room. Slowly, we are getting through it all, but I think it's going to take a while. The new house is great, I even soaked in the hot tub outside last night which was awesome. That's the nice thing about having your own hot tub, you can turn it down to pregnant lady temperature.

Eli is loving the new house, he says "hi new house" and "bye new house" whenever we are coming and going. He's made big strides in the language department over the past week as well. He can almost put together full sentances and has started using the plural form of many words ("three lights mommy!). Yesterday he wanted Brent to go to the basement with him and he said " Hold hand, come downstairs Daddy" - no denying what he wanted with that one. It's fun to see his language developing and exciting for me that I can actually have somewhat of a conversation with him, it makes my day a lot more pleasant when I can talk to someone else. Even if it is about trucks and birds...better than nothing!

Our video camera and camera are packed away somewhere and I have not been able to find them (along with our shoes, I had to wear flip flops in last weeks snow) and I've missed quite a few good photo ops. Hopefully they turn up this week.

We said goodbye to the old house on Friday, and it was so strange to see it empty. I hope the new owners like it as much as we did. We're feeling like it was a really good decision to move. So far our neighbours are very friendly and we found out that our street has a yearly block party in August including bouncers and monster trucks. Sounds like fun!