Sharing Cherrios with Scarlett

Tonight Elliott's friend, Scarlett, came over to play while her parents went to see the new Harry Potter movie. Elliott and Scarlett had fun sharing their snack, and Elliott really enjoyed feeding Scarlett a few of the Cherrios.

Clapping!

He claps!

Earlier this week I told Matt something like this, "I'm going to work on clapping this week with Elliott. I want him to be able to clap at his birthday party!" I had been wanting Elliott to clap for about a month now, but had never even showed him how to clap or said anything to him about it.

Matt is going to be out of town today through Saturday, and today around lunchtime he was home waiting on a ride to the airport. He went to change Elliott's diaper and while he was in the middle of changing it, Elliott started clapping! I was so happy for two reasons: 1) Elliott was clapping! 2) Matt was the first one to see it! Since I'm home with Elliott every day, I get to see a lot of his firsts. It just so happened to work out that Matt was home in the middle of a random day and that day was the one that Elliott chose to clap! YAYYYY!

Pumpkin Preachin'

We (Pammie and I) took Charlie Brown (aka Elliott) to the pumpkin patch to let him pick out a pumpkin. While he was there he decided to talk... no, YELL to everyone there. My mom and I could barely breathe we were laughing so hard! We decided that he was preaching in the pumpkin patch.

walking with his dinosaur

Pammie bought Elliott a Stride-to-Ride Dino to help him practice walking. It looks like he will be practicing his running before too long, though! He really likes to talk while he walks - like his mom! :D

too soon... too fast...

I just got a little sick to my stomach. I'm up late making Elliott's birthday invitation in photoshop (I started the project on a whim and just couldn't stop) and then I realized that my friend's baby girl turns one in exactly 2 weeks. WOW. Seems like she was just born yesterday. Then... it hit me... Elliott is just 5 weeks younger than Karis.

two... plus five.... equals seven.

"There's no way he'll be ONE in only seven weeks." I think.
"My math has GOT to be wrong." I tell myself.

I look at a calendar.

NOPE. I was right. Seven weeks. Seven.short.minuscule.weeks. Only 51 days until my baby's life is measured, not in months, but in years.

Is anyone else's throat starting to close up at this point?!?!

I know it's ironic that I realized this while making his birthday invitation... but I was looking at it from more of a 'craft project' than an actual invite that I'll be using soon!

Now I know why children never stop being their parents' babies... In my mind Elliott will be my baby FOREVER!

On a happier note, only 51 days until I reach my (seemingly never-ending) goal of breastfeeding until one year! Wooohooooo!

Ergo Giveaway

I don't enter that many giveaways, and I certainly try not to blog about them too often... but I really believe that Ergo baby carriers are the BEST way to carry a child sans hands. If you have a baby/small child and have never tried an Ergo, I highly encourage you to do so!

Anyhow, I'd love to win this giveaway!

He's got a lot to say... about his remote

Elliott has been talking up a storm lately. I think he was trying to tell me about a TV show in this video... maybe about something he saw on Oprah. haha