Quick Update

It was too bright one morning for Eva to open her eyes, so she had to wear her sunglasses to eat breakfast. She is a funny girl! Ely is 4 1/2 months old now. He is a pretty happy guy and we love having him around!

Here is Ely at the doctor's office this week for his 4 month checkup.

He weighed 17 pounds, 79th percentile.

He was 27 inches long, 95th percentile.

He is in the 97th percentile for the size of his head.

Eva must have seen Paisley's picture and thought it looked like fun!!

Ely with Grandpa at our Super Bowl party. A few minutes later he was snoozing on Grandpa's shoulder!

Ely giving Aunt Melanie a big kiss!!

McKenzie helped make the tortilla chips for our Super Bowl party. Brian was cheering for the Steelers, thus the colors of the chips. We had a fun party...even though the Steelers lost.

The Nordic Center

On Saturday they were having a free day at the Nordic Center for City employees. Eva tried out the cross country skis for a minute but couldn't really do it. They had this sled there that you could use so Brian pulled her around. She liked riding on that. After awhile she just wanted to run and jump in the snow. I tried the skis for a bit, too, but I was so nervous that I was going to fall over with Ely, so I switched to snowshoes. It was a great workout!! We turned Ely around to face me and he fell right to sleep and slept the whole time. The weather was beautiful and we had so much fun!!

Just some random pictures...

Our "Big Man" is 3 1/2 months old now! He is a great baby and is growing so fast!!

Ely decided about a month ago that he liked to suck his thumb. Isn't that cute?!!Ely with his Great Grandma Knoeppel. She lives in Kansas, so we don't see her as often as we would like. She got to come to my parent's house for Christmas this year, so we were excited to spend some time with her!

Ely and his cousins Kevin and Adam (brothers). Ely is 2 months older than Adam.

This is me with my sister Becky. She is holding Ely and I am holding her baby, Adam. They live in California and drove to Idaho for Christmas. It was a lot of fun spending time with them, too!

Ely and his cousin Mataya. Ely is 2 months older than Mataya.

I love my little family!

You know what stinks about being back at work...

Ely just rolled over for the first time and I missed it!!!
At least Brian got it on video so I can watch it when I get home.

Yesterday was my first day back at work after having 12 weeks off to stay home with my family.
Sorry no picture right now, but Ely now weighs 15 pounds 5 ounces (94th percentile) and is just over 25 inches long (92nd percentile). In one week he will be three months old. I will try to post some pictures soon!

A few pictures

Ely hit the two month mark on December 3rd. He is growing so fast. As you can see from this picture, he is not starving!! He weighs 14.5 pounds. He is a great baby and we love having him in our family. Ely has started to laugh and he has a great smile. It has been so much fun staying home with Eva and Ely. I'm not really looking forward to going back to work after Christmas (even though I love my job). It's just so much fun being with these two kids all day and seeing Brian more often. Here is Ely with his new cousin, Mataya (Jeff and Megan's baby). She was born on November 30th. She is a cute little girl. My sister Becky also had a baby last week on December 4th. She had a boy and his name is Adam. I don't have his picture yet because they live in California, but they are coming for Christmas. Yippee!!

Here is my Dad with Mataya. What a proud Grandpa!! He just loves having so many granddaughters. (12 granddaughters and 4 grandsons)

We put up our Christmas tree yesterday. I was letting Eva put most of the ornaments on. If you can tell from the picture, they are all in the same place! She was a great help though and had lots of fun putting up the decorations.

Eva's 3rd Birthday...and 1st Haircut

Our baby girl is three years old!!

Eva is such a joy to have in our lives. She makes us laugh every day. She has a great imagination and spends alot of her day pretending to be a horse! She loves horses. Eva is very smart and we are amazed at the things she says. She likes to take things apart for some reason. If she finds a string or a rope it will most likely end up being tied around one of her stuffed animals. She loves hot dogs. She absolutely adores her Daddy!! Whenever she looks at words she always points out her letters - E, V, and A. If we get upset with her she tells us to be happy. Then she says, "I love to be happy." She is just the cutest little girl I know!! We love her so much! Happy Birthday, Eva!!Aunt McKenzie helped me with Eva's cake. Actually, all I did was bake the cake...she did the hard work of decorating. Eva had been telling me for two months that she was going to have a pink cake for her birthday and she loved this one. Aunt McKenzie gave Eva her very first haircut. She cut off about 3 inches and it made Eva look older instantly!
This is how she shows she is 3 years old...and she came up with that herself!

Ely's Blessing

Ely was blessed on Sunday. He wore the same thing Brian wore when he was blessed. It was made by Brian's Grandma. Ely is bigger than Brian was, though; the vest part barely fit around Ely's belly! He looked very cute. We had lots of family come to support us. We had lunch at our house afterwards with 48 people!! We were grateful to have everyone here. Thank you!!