Eli's Fluent in Growl/Roar

 
Taken by Jon on his iPhone yesterday.
Part of the same "dance party" as the previous post.
(Had some difficulty compressing/editing it so that Blogger would take it.)
Hopefully, these 2 recent vids makes up for the lack of more current posts.
Enjoy!

Eli's Mad Dance Skillz

Taken by Jon on his iPhone.
I have a theory that Eli thinks he's "breakdancing"?
Too funny!

Gingerbread House Fun

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This was the *perfect* activity to do yesterday while it was

snowing & snowing & snowing outside.

If you want more details, see post on food blog here.

Short Report of Friday, December 18th

in which this sweet sweet sweet little face

got Rudolph'd when he tripped coming down the back sidewalk

and this was about the closest I could get to see

the Z-kids' Christmas Concert . . .

sorry about the lame picture.

& no, I totally didn't take any video.

There are *A LOT* of music programs

@ our new school, which I love!

Sure missed Jon, who had been around Tue-Thu of last week,

but had to go back to school to give a final

on the very last day of finals too, of course!

But it sure makes for a very very very long day when

I had to wake poor little wounded E from his nap to go,

E was wrangled from the backpack carrier for ~1 hour,

& Z-kids performed almost @ the very end!

Z-kids did great though!

I'm so proud of them!

Eli's Tongue Trick

So Eli has been doing this for a while now,

I just haven't had much luck catching it on video . . . 

still not sure if this does it justice, but you get the idea.

Thanksgiving Celebration

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Eli's Adventures @ Genuardi's

Really???  Seriously???

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This seems a little . . . I don't know . . . too much???
Have any of you seen/tried this?

09 Late Fall Y Session

We are so blessed to have been awarded "scholarships" @ our local Y.
The kids are able to get 50% off their lessons. What a great deal!
The current session started the beginning of November & will continue to Christmas.

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Swim pictures taken by me. Karate pictures taken by Jon.
Eli absolutely LOVES being in the water! He was the only one that didn't get lessons while we were living in Lubbock. The trick is to make sure he doesn't "drink the pool"!

All better!

Taken this morning.  Amazing how fast they heal!

You can hardly see where the scrapes were in his eyebrow.

Ouch

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09 Leaves

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Seriously not fair!

Do you see how stinking long those eyelashes are???

Proof is in the Pout

Poor guy!  It always seems like sickness hits the little guys the hardest.

Before the Plague, there was a Sparkly Witch, a Mutant Turtle, & a Cute Frog

So, this is the one lone pathetic picture that I was able to capture on my phone from our Ward's Halloween party/Trunk-or-Treat on Oct 27th.  (Jon couldn't come because he had class that night.)  Not sure if you can tell, but Zoe's hanging on to Eli as he tries to make a run for it!  He's not leaning into her like that by choice.  Zoe had just barely gotten over her fever.  Unbeknownst, to me, I was just starting the fever bit--Happy Birthday to me!  After this night, we went into complete quarantine/lock down mode--even on actual Halloween night.  This was just the start.  Zane, then Jon, & finally Eli all got the fever.  Between Zoe & Zane, they missed a whole week of school.  Zane even missed his class Halloween party--so sad.  It's been 2-3 weeks, & we're finally starting to get back to whatever normal is for us.  Here's to our continued health!

Outing to get . . .

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It's been *forever* since I've created/posted a Smilebox, so enjoy!
I love how you can see Eli's little shoes poking out in one of the pics. He looks so little in the big salon chair. His haircut makes him look much more boy that baby.

In case anyone's wondering, I stayed home with Zoe, who woke up this morning with a fever & had to miss her fun Church/Stake Activity Day! :(

Time for a Hair Cut . . . ?

This is how Jon "styled" Eli's hair after bathtime tonight.
How do you like it?

Who needs toys when you have an empty box?

Eli Mastering the Stairs

So, in case you can't tell, this video was taken early October.
Sorry it's taken me so long to get it posted.
I was trying to figure out if there was a way to upload a video directly from my eMac to Blogger.
Apparently there isn't--unless I want the extra step of uploading first to YouTube--which I don't.
So the only way for me to upload is from my iPhone--
--which only lets me do 60 seconds worth of video to post by email.
As opposed to the whole video, if it's longer.  IRK
In theory, it really shouldn't be this complicated!  :)
OK . . . rant over.  Enjoy the video.

Poor Guy

Can. not. be. lieve. Eli's still getting bitten by bugs!
I guess that's one reason to look forward to winter??!!?
At least this time it was on his little hand & not on his face!

Our Sleeping Prince