First haircut by Momma!

I wasn't sure if I was really ready to attempt Eli's second haircut. And although he wasn't as still for me as he was for Mr. Don, we made it through the haircut and didn't even have to run out and get it fixed (wink). Probably the most excitement of this little adventure was my Hubby behind the camera trying to get pictures.   But he did a wonderful job! Enjoy!!

Momma home-made job!! :)

A month of a few Firsts!

This was quite a month for our little guy. He got his very first haircut and had his very first dentist appt! Which to be honest the reaction to both were oposite of what we thought it would be. You loved getting your haircut and hated the dentist.

Bye Bye Curls! Bye Bye baby locks! Sad Momma, Happy Daddy! And as much as I will admit that I prolonged this experience. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. But those little curls in my mind were the last little bit of baby I had left in this little guy! 

This is where this story gets even more memorable. In deciding to go ahead and get Eli's haircut for the first time, this Momma was unsure she would be able to pull it off herself. Someone had to take pictures, and I couldn't do both. So Isaac made a phone call, to Mr. Don. The same guy who gave him his first haircut some almost 30 years ago or so. He heard through the vine that he was still cutting hair, and sure enough he was.

This was Isaac on the day of his first haircut. 

And here is our sweet Eli on the day of his first haircut. Same chair, same barber. And if I might add, two boys that look a whole ton alike. 

The stare down.

Now onto your First Dentist Visit!! Which you did not love at ALL!! The pictures speak for themselves here. It was a very quick painless experience all they did was brush your teeth, and you were just flat out, NOT HAPPY!!

Sixteen Months!

My little ham! He can love and hate the camera all the same. But when moments like these arise I take advantage of them. How could you not. I know I'm his Momma, but he is just so darn cute!!!

Teeth: At 16 months you had eight teeth. those two other teeth finally came through on the bottom.

Health: You have been happy and healthy!

I LOVE those little curls, your Daddy on the other hand...not so much!

Vocabulary: Your vocabulary has taken off, I can't keep up with all the new things you are saying. You are finally saying Momma or Mommy quite a bit. You say it so sweet and it just makes my heart feel good. I especially love when you wake up and say my name! We have not the first cat here at our house and neither does any family but you know what a cat is and you recently saw one in a book and couldn't quit looking at it saying diddy for kitty! So cute. You also say doggies now, instead of doggy. you try to say Gunner but i think its a bit hard. You say ice and mine, but you say both of those words like a little country boy. you also say me.

New Things: You have become very aware of when you are going to the bathroom, but the funniest thing is when you pass gas you grab your bottom and say huh! pee pee! (We're working on this, it's confusing, I know) You are starting to learn what noise certain animals make. And you have a fascination with birds for some reason.

This picture looks like he is salsa dancing, HAHA!!

Food/Drink: For the most part you are a good eater. I think its safe to say your favorite food ever is banana, nannies as you like to call them. If I can't get you to eat anything else you will eat a banana. I wish you had the same taste for veggies as you do for bananas. A close second to bananas is chicken, you LOVE chicken. And grapes, you will eat your weight in grapes.

Music: You occasionally add a few new dance moves to your routine. Your most recent is you do a sorta disco move with your hands. It is so funny and I have no idea where you learned it, but it is too cute!

Toys: You are loving your toy mailbox with little plastic pieces of mail and this keeps you busy forever. You love to put the mail in and out of the mailbox.

Sleep: Your sleeping is great! And I'm not complaining!

Favorites: A recent favorite is a little bear that I got when I had you. You LOVE this little bear and you carry it around and call it your baby. You love on it and hold it and bounce it. It is so sweet.

 Clothes/Shoes: Some 12-18mo, mostly 18mo. Your jammies are mostly 24 months and a size 5 shoe. You wear a size 4 diaper.

Height/Weight: I think you are somewhere around 27lbs and 32 in tall (?? i wish i knew for sure)

Milestones: You have mastered the art of blowing kisses and peek a boo. Also if you are asked how old you are you will hold up one finger.

I just love you more than anything ever!! You are my little sunshine!

Fourteen Months

Eli has changed so much since his first birthday. He is more and more like a little boy than a baby everyday. This is sorta lengthy and I apoligize in advance, I just want to remember these things, I feel like this time is just flying by so very fast.

taken w/phone

Teeth: On your first birthday you only had I believe 3 teeth, you now have six they came in not longer after you turned one, poor guy, but you were a trooper!

Health: On the subject of teeth, just after Thanksgiving we realized that your mouth was really hurting you, you got a stuffy/runny nose, I guess it could have been your teeth, but that turned into somewhat cold symptoms, after just getting over the strep about a month earlier, we went ahead and took you for a checkup, turns out you had a double ear infection.

Vocabulary: You of coarse are still saying Da da, and your Dad-dee recently turned into Daddy. You can say MaMa you just won't and you have said Mommy all of 5 times(pretty sad that I am keeping track of it) you still say see and no no. Some new words are: Gi gi(for great grandma), this, these, hey, you have said, deer, fish, baby and kitty, but I haven't heard kitty in a while and baby turned into ba buh. You have started copying a few words recently, bath, poop, poo poo. You say nu all the time, it is drink related and I think it might be your version of more, but sometimes it's nuice instead, but even if you are drinking milk you say nu, so we're not sure.

New Things: the first time you said hey, it was more like heyyya, and it was when I wore my reading glasses, you had never seen me with them on and you looked at me forever and finally said heyya, all night you would put your hands on my cheeks and say heyya. Now its more like hey, and you say it alot especially if someone is trying to do something or they are leaning over working on something you will lean over too and say hey. In doing that you learned to lean over and rest your hands on your knees, so cute. You have started putting your hands out to the side of your head and you will do it for I don't know and all gone. Everytime you do it you say uhhh and put your hands out. And you also started copying playing the tamberine but you play yours leaning over tapping it on your ankle, it is very funny. You point and say no no. When we do something you don't want us to do you clap your hands at us and say uhh uhh. You are very good at clapping your hands and you will clap for yourself when you do something good. You know where your eyes, ears, nose and mouth are. When we ask you where each are you point at them and usually say...thisss. When we ask were your mouth is you blub your lips.

taken w/phone

Food/Drink: You are a good little eater, always have been. You love milk and juice, but the only way you will drink water is straight from the bottle. You are still avoiding most green things as far as veggies go, but you like salad. You love tomatoes, and you love bread, any kind of bread.

Music: You love music and you LOVE to dance, its almost as if your little body can't sit still when you hear music, you automatically start to dance. and recently you started to spin around.

Toys: you are very into bikes and things you can sit on to move around in.

Sleep: You are in bed most nights no later than 9:00 and you sleep until 8:00 usually sometimes a little earlier and sometimes a little later. You take one good nap a day from around 1-3:30 or 4:00

taken w/phone

Favorites: You love your boots, you have a favorite blanket, and your a little attached to your binky but only for nap time.

Clothes/Shoes: You were some 12mo, but mostly 12-18 mo or just 18mo and a size 5 shoe. You wear a size 4 diaper.

Height/Weight: You are about 23-24lbs and I think it was a few weeks ago that your daddy made an attempt to measure you and you were around 31in tall.

Milestones: We started potty training and you are doing so good. Your first day you went pee pee on the potty 2x. the second day you went 4x. When we ask you if you have to go pee pee you run to your potty. The wait tim to hear a tinkle was around 5-10 minutes but the last few times you have gone you go pee as soon as you sit down. YAY!

This next picture makes me laugh out loud. We first got Eli's potty about a month ago after his birthday sometime. He was very interested in his new potty, so I thought we would try it out. He was fine until I took out the camera. 

His face says it all, LOL! (taken w/phone)

Lets try this again! First day of potty training! Just went pee pee!

*And just a fyi, he doesn't get stripped down for every potty break, these just both happen to be before bath time, LOL!*

They say there is a window for that sort of thing, well I think we might have found our "window".