Category: personal

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. …

Wow, time flies when you’re changing diapers.  Elias turned 7 months on Thursday.  He’s really starting to get to the point where he’s fun now.  Or I should say where the fun times way outweigh the difficult times.  He can sit up on his own, and does all the time now.  He’s still scooting, but…

Moving you ask?  Well, Nikki and I have been playing with other ideas for the layout of our house.  We’ve been in the biggest bedroom upstairs, but that leaves Elias’ room on the way to ours.  The problem there is he has no real door to his room, so it’s noisy and bright.  That means…

too tired to write.

Well Elias is still not yet crawling.  He’s a faster scooter though.  And he’s been talking up a storm lately as well.  He’s also eating more and more real food.  Unfortunately we were supposed to go to Block Island last weekend, and then again this weekend but it seems the weather doesn’t want us to…