E can open doors!

A couple of days ago I was resting on the couch resting while E was napping (or so I thought).  When all of a sudden I turn my head to see a little boy standing next to me and he says, “hi mommy!  I opened it!)  Meaning he opened his bedroom door.  It has finally clicked with E that he can open doors.  Well now he has been loving closing and opening doors.  This means he can now open the door to the vacuum.

Eli getting the vacuum out and closing the door behind him.  At least we have taught him to always close the doors after you open them!

  

He did a great job vacuuming the floor, too bad it wasn’t plugged in or I’d have a clean floor!

Thanksgiving Part 1

I love Thanksgiving!  We have so much to be thankful for and I love that I live in a country that has a day set aside just to be thankful.  Here are a few things that we are thankful this year

I am thankful that we live in a country that every morning we can have a Bible study with our son and not be worried that someone might find out.

 

I’m thankful for my 2 boys and our comfortable house where we can sit back and watch the HEB Thanksgiving day parade.  And on this Thanksgiving we are really thankful for a working AC!

I am thankful for being able to host Thanksgiving dinner and have it at my wonderful table.  I love my dinning room table!

I am thankful that Eli has a cousin that is close in age to him and doesn't live to far away.

   

The boys are very thankful for balls!

 

again I am thankful for my dinning room table that is large enough to fit my family and have little boys run around it while the grown ups finish eating.

    

yet again I am thankful for my table, it kept 2 little boys very occupied while everyone ate their dinner in peace.  After running around it they decided to play under it.

    

I am so thankful for my husband who works very hard to support us while I stay home with E.  We are very blessed in this family, lots of food, love and laughter!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Getting into the Christmas Spirit!

One of the things I love about living in The Woodlands is that there is always something going on and most of the the time it’s free!  Tonight we went to Iwon which is a festival that goes with the lighting of the doves.  We have gone every year of Eli’s life. 

   

Eli had to go up and say hi to the snowman, he gave him 5 and then ran away

 

Then Eli had to check out all the acts that were on stage.  He didn’t care much for the choirs and signers but loved the dancers.

Next E had to take a few spins in the “snow”.  Thomas and I totally forgot to bring any cash with us.  The event is free but all the children’s activities cost.  They had a snow area that E really wanted to go into but mommy and daddy didn’t bring any money!

   

After we walked the length of the festival Eli found a hill and decided to dance and then decided running down it would be more fun.

Eli spotted a friend.  I guess Mason forgave him for ditchin’ him Thursday night for a girl!

The boys had a blast chasing each other and rolling down the hill.

 

On our way back to the car E had to check out another act up close and personal.

 

He was even trying to dance with them while attempting to hold on the the fence.

 

We had a great time and as we were leaving we kept running into more friends coming in.  But we had to go because mommy and daddy didn’t bring any cash so we couldn’t get dinner and E was one dirty boy in need of a bath.  Next time we will be better prepared!

Yea for Grandparents!

My Grandmother from KY flew in Thursday to spend a couple of months with my parents. So I thought it would be fun to have my parents and grandmama over Friday night for dinner so grandmama could catch up with us before the holidays got to crazy. Eli was in heaven!

1st Eli had to try on Pop Pop’s boots

Then of course he had to walk in them

While we waited for Nanny to get here for dinner Eli rough housed with everyone.

Eli with his Pop Pop

After dinner Eli wanted to hang out with the guys talking at the table.

At bed time Gandmama (pop pop’s mom) and Pop Pop read Eli his bed time stories. I could pick just one picture so I posted them all.

Future Tennis Pro!

This afternoon E and I went to target to pick up a couple of things. Eli decided it would be fun to go through the sports aisle and he found a tennis racquet that was almost his size. He picked it right up and started swinging it like he's been playing tennis all his life (the whole 2 years of it)! I guess he's following in his daddy's foot steps. I told him when he's bigger than the racquet we'd get him one!

Just a cute video!

I think we are a bit obsessed….

With Chick-fil-A that is!  If you couldn’t tell from our Halloween costume our family is a bit obsessed with Chick-fil-A.  Today, one of the Chick-fil-A in our area was having Toddler time with Elmo.  So of course we had to go to that.  But before we could go we had to go to another obsession Starbucks.  The way most kids recognize McDonalds is the way Eli recognizes Starbucks.  When we go Eli gets a “smoothie”.  Which is Horizons chocolate Milk.  He goes right to the cooler gets his milk or “smoothie” and puts it on the counter so mommy can pay for it.

 

I think we go to this Starbucks too much because Eli acts like he owns the place!

 

After Starbucks we walked around Market Street, in the rain, for a bit.  Which E loved because it meant we got to use the umbrella.  Then we headed over to Chick-fil-a.

 

Eli was so excited to see Elmo I even bribed him to eat dinner last night by threatening not to see Elmo.  But when it was finally our turn to see Elmo E got incredibly shy.

I wasn’t too impressed with Elmo at Chick-fil-a.  All that Elmo did was take pictures with the kids.  But we still had a blast!  Several from our play group made it to Chick-fil-a too, so we got to eat lunch and play with them.  The kids had so much fun playing together in the play area and the moms got to sit and finish our lunch while enjoying conversation with out ear deafening noise.  When we got the kids ready to go a lady came around with free samples of their new Holiday shake.  It was the perfect treat for the kids before heading home.  We ended up spending almost 2 hours at Chick-fil-a.