Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it snow!

So, we got snow here yesterday, and wow has Eli been excited. At least a month ago we were looking at pictures on the computer of him playing in the snow with one of his little "tractors" (a front loader) and ever since he's wanted to watch every cartoon with snow in it he can find. Suffice to say we are definitely ready for Christmas already :-).




Believe it or not church was canceled today. This is oh about 4 or 5 pm, so the snow has been melting, but definitely never got as deep as in Utah. But, with all of the trees there are quite a few down power lines around, so that's probably a main reason why. One of the roads by our house is actually roped off because of it.

Some stuff from recently :-)

So, assuming I actually get this posted today, then this video is actually from just a couple of days ago :-). Eli and I had been drawing using this "twistable slick stick" things that he got from Grandma Debbie (they're actually really cool! they're like a pastel almost), and I put his master piece up on the wall (he was into Orange that day), and then Mommy's had to go on the wall too, then he thought it would be a great idea for me to put a blank page on the wall for him to draw on, after looking at the marks on the table, I decided that the bottom of the laundry basket would be a better idea :-). Anyway, he started drumming and singing along, so I thought I'd best take a video, after all what is a Mother to do? I did go and get his toy guitar after this and we sang songs with it, but I have trouble playing and videoing at the same time :-). Sadly, all but his master piece later became "dirt" or coal for his "train," which consisted of some empty boxes all lined up in a row.






This second video is Eli learning to be polite :-). He says excuse me when he burps (for the most part) and he's really catching onto saying thank you too. He's pretty cute though because sometimes when he gives someone else something, then he will tell them thank you instead of waiting for them to tell him thank you.

Easter 2011!!

This is Kip and Eli taking in a baseball game on their "couch" it was pretty cute, I can't remember who was playing they were college teams, but both of them were taken in by it :-)



I'm not sure that this one is from the same trip if it it's the trip before but I had to put it in :-)

Wow so I totally thought that I'd posted all of the Easter pictures! Well, here goes :-) This is from last Easter. Nikki couldn't come because she was pregnant but her boys (Mack, Ty, and Kip (Duke of course was in her tummy)) came out to Grandma Debbie and Boppy's house and they all had an Easter egg hunt in the yard! It was a blast. We were laughing because we thought we were going to have to set rules so that Kip and Eli would get enough eggs, but it turned out that we almost had to slow the little ones down, because they both caught right on and got into the whole looking for the eggs thing. I think Eli made out like a bandit on the eggs with quarters in them! He got like $6 or something like that. Anyway, it looks like there are a couple of drafts, so I'll see if the others have the other pictures :-)









Turns out the other drafts didn't have any different pictures, so here's some more! :-) oops looks like they added to the top oh well, maybe this post will still make sense :-)

Uncle Ben is a Fun Guy!

Uncle Ben is a fun guy! When Nikki and the boys came to visit last he took turns letting Eli and his cousin Kippy chase the other boys up and down the hall on the 4-wheeler :-)




It was awesome because he took turns just right so that neither Kip or Eli got jealous. This also must have been near the end of their visit because Kip and Eli (Eli is only 6 months older than Kip) the last couple of times they've seen each other at first one of them is all ready to be friends with the other, but then it takes until the end of the visit for them to both be ready to be friends.

Okay so this one is not as good as it could be, but Kip and Eli both LOVE to watch Uncle Ben cut wood. They think it's the funniest/best thing in the world! Here is a video of Eli watching Ben. Unfortunately, I didn't think to start videoing until after Brett started working on his car and the revving was distracting Eli, who, if I recall, was trying to decide if he should head for the sidewalk :-)

Eli helps decorate the Christmas Tree!

I'm not sure if all of these will work. This is Eli decorating the Christmas tree at Boppy and Grandma Debbie's in Oregon. He was sure he needed to walk up the step ladder to put up each decoration. Unless Uncle Ben or Boppy would lift him up high to put one higher on the tree. We learned right away that bulbs were a bad idea because Elijah loves to throw balls :-). He was so excited though every time he got an ornament on the tree. We tried to catch his little arm pumping :-) The one of him in the puddles I thought was a tree decorating one but since it's on here I might as well leave it :-) I'll try to put up more from the visit soon :-)

This is Elijah's new trick that he just started today. He can push both of the toys he pushes at once. He was pretty excited about it and grabbed me to come and see it.

We Visited The Earth Place!

Our library here has free tickets to places that you can check out, so we decided to go to the Earth Place in Westport. It's a fun little nature place. We went on the 19th of June.

They had a playroom area that had things for different ages. This is about the first time Eli has ever played with a shape sorter and he thought it was pretty fun. He kept handing it back to me to open it and get the pieces out again!

This was a cool toy! It's like those little things with the metal pins that you can make take the shape of your face and hands and things. This one has plastic pegs. Eli was playing with it, but as soon as I came to help him with it the independent little guy wouldn't have anything to do with it anymore. That's Josh's face, and the many hands on the right are my hands. I think the other fingers are Josh's.

Here we are walking on some of the nature "trails." Some of them were real trails while the other places we were just walking under the trees and guessing if we were on a trail or not. Every now and again there were marks or signs. It was pretty fun though. I liked that Elijah got to play under the trees kind of like when I was little and we used to play in the trees below our house.

I know that some of you may be offended by the backpack/leash, but Eli likes his Doggy backpack because now he has a backpack like Mommy's diaper bag and Daddy's school backpack, and he doesn't run off into poisin ivy by mistake.

After a while we put Eli in the stroller (which it turned out we didn't really need) so that we could get him back to play on the playground.

We don't have any pictures on the playground, because we didn't get to stay there long. Everywhere we went there were hornets and whasps following us around. It was a fun looking playground too. Elijah was particularly sad to leave a little basketball hoop, but we didn't have a ball with us anyway.

They have animals too, but I think I was too involved looking at them with Eli. They have a small indoor animal room with ghinea pigs and ferrets and little birds that they have rescued and are healing. They also had snakes and rabbits. The doves started calling while we were there. I love the dove call. Outside they had birds of prey that they had rescued. There were these two really big bald eagles that were particularly fun to see!