eli vs. baby #2

belly #1
oct.7.09
38 weeks
160 lbs

belly #2

april.30.11
35 weeks, 2 days
153 lbs

i can see a lot of similarities between these two pics of my belly, though my thighs and booty are quite bigger in the 2nd pic. (i already can't wait to start running!) i think belly #2 is a little higher than belly #1 but that might be because i feel this baby in my ribs a bit more. what you do think? i still am up in the air as to what i'm going to have...though boy was my first thought. any predictions out there?

days 105 - 111

april.14.11

blow pop in one hand and bat in the other

april.15.11
chris and eli singing me happy bday

april.16.11
bouncy castle at emily's last baby shower

april.16.11b
prom security
yes...my husband dressed the part for this! which included gloves, sun glasses, walkie-talkie, metal detector wand, and a flash light.
and no, he wasn't asked to do this.

april.17.11
farmer eli

april.18.11
senior night. eli watching the raiders

april.19.11
driving boo's truck

april.20.11
cheetos + red georgia clay = this nasty ballpark face

days 97- 104

april 6.11

naked batter

april.7.11
worst meal i've ever made

april.8.11
at the ball game
check out the face...eli had a date with the pavement

april.9.11
couples shower

april.10.11
worshiping with dr. youssef
april.10.11b
em's baby shower

april.11.11
being spoiled at dq by nene
april.11.11b
watching the raiders take infield

april.12.11
climbed up by himself...he is a monkey!


april.12.11b
helping daddy wash the uniforms
april.13.11
awesome chocolate cake made by a sweet friend for my bday

what happens at the baseball field...

...stays at the baseball field.

drinking from bottles
airheads
sour punch straws
blue are his favorite...which means he has had more than one flavor!

I do have to say that without the numerous parents who help me keep an eye on this little fellow, he might have gone missing by now. I enjoy the help I get at the games...though it does come with a price to pay: one hyped up toddler filled with sugar and thinking he is big enough to drink from a water bottle. It is a small price to pay though when you are 32 weeks pregnant, waddling around trying to keep up with him all while watching the baseball game too.

Here is a small taste of what sour punch straws will do to a 18 month old...

And here is what Eli continually walks around with now. Trust me, I had no part in giving this child a wooden bat! That was all his daddy.

days 81-96

march.21.11

what eli came home with after boo babysat!

march.22.11

e's first craft at preschool

march.23.11
mommy's "helper"...sort of!

march.24.11
check out my new trick

march.25.11
asleep but still holding onto his ball

march.26.11
disciple now...waiting on a pic
march.27.11
what happens to pizza dough when you put it in the pantry instead of the frig
march.28.11
at daddy's game

march.29.11
spaghetti beard

march.30.11
asleep with another ball

march.31.11

dinner date with mommy

april.1.11
oh yeah, now i remember why i don't live in the atl

april.2.11
nana holding a pink dress from em's shower
i wonder if it will get any use???

april.3.11
playing outside on a pretty sunday

april.4.11
congratulating daddy after his victory
april.5.11
daddy hard at work trying to finish up his specialist!
go daddy go!!

just a little update...

daddy: coaching lots of baseball, spending all other waking hours writing IEPs (which if you don't know what those are...be glad!) and trying to finish up his research for his specialist, all while being a great husband and father. i'm sure he will be glad when summer comes and he doesn't have anymore classes to take...though i do keep reminding him that we will have a newborn in our house again. so much for relaxing, huh?

mommy: growing and stretching, and not doing a lot of sleeping...which is how this blog was birthed. freaking out about having two little ones in the house and trying to rest when she can. oh yes, and attending lots of showers for little sisters--weddings and babies.

eli: talking more and more. he is saying all kinds of words: please, momma (finally!), juice, shoes, hands, socks, ears, orange, ba--which is his paci, ball, bat, hat, emmy and bec, and he yells, "jack!" whenever his friend jack is around. he is throwing everything and even has this cute little wind-up when holding a ball. he is also pitching lots of fits daily. hey, he may be small for his age, but he is advanced when it comes to acting like a "terrible two". he is doing better sleeping, most nights. he yells at the baseball games when daddy yells and he loves to talk whenever there is someone close to his size nearby. he has also discovered dirt and rocks, and likes to throw them both.

new baby: moving around, growing, and kicking "his" mommy so hard she stops dead in her tracks.

hide and seek...eli style

eli loves to play with his daddy's watch, among other things that he finds on daddy's night stand. whenever he walks into our room, he heads straight for daddy's nightstand to see what "toy" he can find to occupy his time.

on saturday night, eli has walking around the room playing with chris's watch. chris and i were both focused on other things and didn't see where eli ended up putting the watch down. and to be honest, neither of us even thought about the watch until sunday morning when chris went to put it on. when he noticed the watch was missing, he reminded me that eli had been playing with it the night before. then he asked me if i remembered where he put it. i had no idea. so chris and i started looking all over the house for the missing time-teller. we looked under beds, couches, chairs. in cabinets, baskets, bowls, closets, pantries, and drawers. anywhere a little toddler might lay something down...we searched and searched to no avail.

then chris went up to eli, who was totally unaware of what mommy and daddy were doing, and asked him while pointing to his wrist, "eli, where is daddy's watch?" i laughed out loud. "really, chris? do you really think he remembers where he put a watch down last night?" eli just smiled at him and made the same motion with his little fingers pointing to his wrist. we quickly gave up on that game and headed out the door to church.



all throughout the day chris continued searching for the watch and asking eli, "where is daddy's watch?" every time eli was asked, he just smiled and pointed to his own wrist. i kept thinking back to what was happening while eli had been playing with it the night before and the only place i thought it could have been was perhaps the dryer. you see, eli loves to take the clothes from the washer to the dryer and he had helped me the night before. i mentioned that to chris so he took the clothes out of the dryer and began folding them in the den.


i was lying on the couch watching the great job chris was doing folding the clothes when eli came into the room with the watch in his hand! i turned to look at what he was holding and burst out laughing. chris looked at me like "what is so funny?" and i just said through laughter, "please look at what eli has in his hand!"



i guess he was done fooling his parents and had gotten enough humor out of watching us rack our brains all day and search high and low for chris's watch. this kid cracks me up! who knows where that thing was hidden.