Watch out Eric Clapton

Last night we went to Grandpa Carlos' house to celebrate Sebastian's 17th birthday. Eli just loves the guitar and especially helping Grandpa play it. I always wanted to put Eli in guitar lessons so hopefully he still likes it in a few years. He just helped himself to Grandpas lap to play.

New Friend

Over the last few days Eli has made a new friend. His name is Ervin Thursten. He is fun to carry around and eat with. He is a must for bedtime too. Eli's great Auntie Linda adopted Ervin for him, what a lucky guy! Lunch time, how exciting Ervin wants to sit with me! He needs a bib too, things can get messy around here. I like how he still has his arm around him.

Starting him early

Eli sometimes likes to sit in a booster seat at the kitchen table. I was looking for a place mat for him and came across this one. I'm sure he would have preferred animals or a cartoon, but I just couldn't resist. We will be working on him saying "Metamorphic" tonight.

What's better than snack time?

Snack time is great, but NAKED snack time is awesome! It's the perfect way to make the most of a summer afternoon.

Another Etsy find

I love love love Sweet Papery on Etsy. What a great idea, an address label stamp! They also have self inking stamps on their website. I signed up for the newsletter so that when they have a discount code I can order mine. What an neat gift idea as well!

Here is the design that I like:

Airplanes and Automobiles

I took Eli to watch the airplanes take off and land this week. He loves to watch airplanes in the sky. It was very neat and he really enjoyed it. Although, I think his favorite part was sitting in the front seat of the car. There were so many buttons to push, he was in heaven.



If you noticed that Eli's voice is a little raspy, he's had a hard time adjusting to Daddy going back to work, there have been a lot of tears around our house in the last week!

So many photo opportunities so few photos

I'm such a bad blogger. I never bring my camera anywhere. How can you have a blog with no pictures? Part of the problem is that our camera is big, so it's not exactly convienient. We just got a video camera so I've been playing around with that. I'll post some video soon!

Last night was a perfect example: We went for an everning bike ride and it was awesome. As we were starting out along the ridge overlooking fish creek and we saw 2 horses coming towards us. It was 2 conservation officers on horseback and we stopped and got to pet them. Eli was so cute in his little bowling ball helmet petting the horses. Then we headed down to The Ranche, and it was so pretty, then through fishcreek with all the bridges. I think I said to Brent at least 5 times "I wish I had the camera".

I've never been one to take lots of pictures, so I'm making a mental note to make more of an effort in that department. I don't even think I've taken any pictures of Eli for over a month. How awful!