Author: Ben

Well Elias’ first Xmas is in the books!  He seemed to understand opening presents (read ripping paper) and received a ton of gift.  I’ll try to get a shot of just his loot, but yeah, he’s got enough toys for a while considering how much everyone got him.  Nikki and I also had a wonderful…

for someone else?!  Yep, guess Elias is done with breastfeeding…  Over the last week he’s pretty much given up on it.  Then Wednesday night he bit Nikki and has been having a bottle since.  I guess it’s official, he’s growing up.  He also got another introduction with snow this week.  Friday night we gto ~9″…

2 posts in one day?  Yep.  New cameras have a habit of making me shoot more.  Add to that I love snow, and apparently so does Elias, so you’re getting a double dose this weekend.  We woke up to ~2″ of snow here in RI this morning.  It’s Elias’ first time really seeing snow.  He…

Yeah, so remember how I said I’d do another update last weekend?  I’m guessing you figured out I didn’t get to it by now…..  We ended up having a great weekend and a busy few days this week.  We made another trip to Ikea last Sunday and got a new desk.  I’ll add some pics…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope everyone is having a safe and fun holiday and stuffing your faces.  I’m thankful for a lot, but the most is in the picture to the left.  Nikki and Elias.  Nikki was off to Newport early this morning to run the pie race.  Elias and I held down the fort…

Our house is starting to look like a jailhouse.  Elias is mobile enough now he’s getting into more things (trouble).  So we’ve picked up 3 more gates this week.  2 are very inexpensive (2 for $20) that aren’t permanent.  We’ve been using them on the doorways to the kitchen for now and they’re great because…

Elias is getting more and more active all the time now.  He’s now crawling all over the entire first floor of our house if he’s allowed.  If not, he can usually get past or through whatever barrier we’ve tried to use.  He’s standing more often as well and pulling things down off higher shelves.  It’s…

Well Elias is getting really mobile now.  He’s been belly crawling for a while now, but that was slow and he couldn’t get over/around a lot of obstacles.  He’s now full on crawling and can pull himself up to standing.  He’s even “walked” pushing a footstool across the front room (he was actually trying to…

Elias is 8 months old today.  Can you believe it?  We barely can.  He’s also had a few new milestones this week.  Last weekend he waved to another baby at a store.  Last night he waved to me when I left him with Nikki for his late night feeding right before he’s tucked in.  He’s…

Well, Elias almost really has a tooth now.  He’s been getting both his front 2 teeth poking through, but his front left is getting to be apparent now.  He’s also climbing a lot more things lately.  He can pull himself up onto his knees very well and has actually put 2 feet on the floor…

Well, tons of pictures this week.  What’s going on with us?  Well, we got Elias a “cage”.  It’s more to be a temporary childproofing technique, but he really seems to like it.  We put him in it with all his toys and it keeps him out of trouble, but it also keeps the pets away…

Elias the puddle pirate (waits to see how many people might get that…)?  There’s a story to this, but it’s long and involves internet jokes so just trust me it’s as funny as Elias is cute.  This week’s been fun though.  Elias licked everything in sight at Ikea last weekend while having a great time. …