Top Ten

Here are my Top Ten favorite Eli sayings

10) Concerning a toy that has disappeared: "Oh, I bet dad broke it"

9) "What do I smell?" - (can pertain to a lot of situations)

8) "I need to check a web-site"

7) "That chicken looks like fish"
It's chicken
"Hum, I wanted fish"

6) When trying to stall - "See, look, I can't walk, my knees are bending"

5) "I want to watch Kung Fu Panda"
We don't have Kung Fu Panda
"I think we do"
No I'm pretty sure we don't
"Check Netflix"

4) I picked him up from school and wanted to know if he liked the roll-up I made him for lunch.
Did you have a good day at school?
"Yep"
Anything exciting?
"No, but I had a really crazy sandwich for lunch"

3) "Let's just rest for a second so I can get the busy out of me."

2) "I am not sure what just happened, but I think you need to change your pants."

1) "Wow, that made a big mess"

And my all time favorite:
Eli it is time to clean up the living room.
"How about I just sit here and watch you do it."

Literally...

I hadn't looked at this picture in a while, but used it today in our craft (or crap) for MOPS today. What a fun memory. This was the first time we had professional pictures of the boys taken together. It was not a fun experience as neither of the boys were interested in being photogenic. In fact we purchased this picture because it was the best, so you can use your imagination as to what the other pictures looked like. I was sweating by the time the session was over chasing Eli around the studio. Oh, but how time has passed. Isaac had just started sitting up (he was falling backwards and Eli was catching him in this shot) and Eli still had a head full of curls. They grow up so fast.

The boys are getting taller and older all to fast. Each day they seems to look less and less like toddlers and are getting that "little boy" look. While I love love love this stage I do miss their littleness. Life now seems to be a balancing act of allowing them to identify and understand boundaries, explore the world without hampering their creativity, and at the same time try to keep them alive. Boys are insanely creative at making the mundane dangerous. Eli was working today on the door. He was standing on a hamper, that was posied on his toy box (placing him about 5 feet in the air), banging on the door frame with a plastic hammer. I need nerve pills.

I am also constantly amazed at how literal Eli's world is becoming. He knows nothing other than reality and so using slang around him can send his small world into a tail spin. Each morning I exercise and when I come up stairs to take a shower I am literally soaked with sweat. Inevitably Eli is waking up about the time I go to take a shower and so we meet in the hallway and I take him to the potty. This morning Eli was wanting to get right to playing and I told him he needed to play quitely in the room while I "jumped in the shower." He laughed at me like that was the most ridiculous idea in the world, because clearly, if I jumped in the shower I would definitely fall. He got a good laugh out of it - such a cute way to start the day.

Isaac

Isaac has become quite the funny man. Here are some of his antics.

A break

Last weekend we took a 4 day trip to Gatlinburg with the family. Here are a few pictures of the boys. The hotel had a great pirate ship park. The saying of the week was "Are we going to make it?" This was instead of, "Are we there yet?" or "When are we going to get there?" I guess there was concern that we were never going to make it to vacation.
And... I usually don't dress them alike but assumed that it was ok to be super cheesy while on vacation and out of town...

The Family Trade

Eli's first dunk.

Mom & Isaac Day

Isaac has been a sicky lately. I took him to the doctor on Friday and had to endure another breathing treatment. This time Eli was with me, he has never had to see a breathing treatment (which consists of 5-10 minutes of high pitch yelling/crying). Eli was crying as well. It was super fun. So today Isaac stayed home from "school". He finishes his antibiotics today, but is on steroids so I was a little concerned for him to pick up some other sickness from the school kids. So... Isaac and I got our first mother/son day. It was so fun. He is quite the character. Here are some pictures of us being silly after lunch.

More pictures...

Here are some more pictures of the boys playing in the front yard. First time running barefoot through the yard! They were loving it!

Silly Faces