Teeth progress

Here's the progress on Elijah's tooth. Every day it looks like it's come out more.

Elijah's on the move

Since Elijah started walking about a 6 weeks ago, he's really starting to move. He walks all over our house and loves it. It's so cute to see him walking around. Here's a little clip of him walking up and down the hallway.

Teethies!!

Elijah's first teeth are FINALLY coming in! As you can see from the pictures...it's the front two-mostly the front left one right now. It looks pretty painful to me...and from his fussinesss, I think it IS painful. Poor little mister. I'm a bit sad cause his toothless grin is gone...another sign of my "baby" growing up.

Playin' Around

We've been playing outside a lot in our little fill up pool. Both the kids love to splash around in it. We can put our climber slide into it also so they can slide down into the water. Lots of fun playing outside.



In the evenings, after dinner, all four of us gather on the floor in our living room and have family time. We tickle each other, play peek-a-boo, and just laugh together. Here's Elijah and I enjoying some good laughing.



My friend Faye and her 2 kids came to visit for a couple of days. We had lots of fun together...the kids love each other. On Thursday we went out to the Chandler's pool for our church playgroup. Here are all of the big kids looking into a hole "looking for the bugs".



Here's daddy and the kids. They really like climbing on him. :)

Poor Grampadad

So, last Thursday my dad had a bit of a stumble. While working in the garden in Oregon (probably picking weeds!) he fell backwards and hurt his arm. They immediately went to the ER and had quite the afternoon visiting a few DRs. It turns out he dislocated both bones, and fractured one, too. He goes back on Friday to find out if he'll have to have surgery to place a pin in his arm. Poor Grampa Jim. Pray for him...and his little arm! We love you, dad!! And...there will be more weeds to dig through when you are all done with this! teehee

Swim Class

The past two weeks we've been taking Alia and Elijah to swim class at a local high school pool. Elijah is a tadpole and Alia is a ducky. They both have enjoyed being in the water-Alia a little more than Elijah. Elijah just holds onto me...there's not much kicking going on, or arm usage...just hanging out with mom in the pool. Alia has become more and more comfortable in the water, but she still won't jump into dad's arms without holding onto his hands. We have two more days left, so we'll see. If she does jump in on her own we'll be taking a trip to the Hello Kitty store! :) Since both Jason and I are in the pool, I can't get any pictures in the water...here's a picture of both our cuties warming up after class.

Day trip to the mountains

Last weekend was the church's annual camping trip. Instead of camping the whole weekend, our family just went up for the day on Saturday. Alia was looking forward to "camping" and had a good time taking little walks and playing with her friend, Evan. Elijah, well...since he's walking he got quite dirty. He ended up just sitting in the dirt and dumping dirt on his head. Then he rubbed his eyes...and the dirt and drool mixed...and then you get the picture below! He was such a mess. After the picture was taken we took him to the faucet to wash his face. He ended up spending most of the rest of the day in his stroller. We had a good day in the mountains!