Eli loves to help work.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, we can go outside more. I am trying to weed the garden and he is a good snail finder. He is also great at watering the plants. His technique has improved as he used to hold it a foot or two out and make lots of puddles. He now holds it on the nozzle and sprays all over.

Construction!

Grandma and Grandpa are remodeling their kitchen and Eli is a big help. He is filling holes. He responded "Need more holes." After realizing how big a mess a little boy can get, we changed into one of Daddy's old shirts. It looks like a dress, but it is a lot easier to clean up.

I Leave Him Alone for Two Minutes!

I slept this morning because Eli was quietly busy in his room. I went to go check on him and found his beautiful mural all over his walls. We struggled with Magic Erasers for a while, but it didn't work. We may just have to repaint.

Stuck!

Eli stuck his body through the post, as displayed below, and couldn't get out. He cried for Grandpa to get him out. Just like a child he got right back in a number of times until Grandpa sat next to the stairs. We had a good time watching him struggle for a minute.

Snow with Joe!

When we went to Grandma Danna's house for the weekend and Eli's cousin Joe was there too. These two boys had so much fun playing together in the snow and just being boys. The snow was nice and soft for us to pull them up and down a small hill in the backyard. Afterwords we came in for hot chocolate and they sure enjoyed it. All the rest of the weekend, they were into everything, from the toilet to the toybox to grandma's sewing room. The highlight of my weekend happend when they climbed in the closet and found some toys. Eli wanted the toy Joe had and told him, "Not a toy Joe" and took it from him. These littles ones are as much fun as they are work.

Halloween Time!

We did some photo shoots and apparantly Eli didn't want to be posed in his costume. When it came time to go trick or treating, he was a natural. He was the only kid within 2 hours of other trick or treaters and just so darn cute that the neigbors just let him keep grabbing candy from the tray. He enjoyed putting it in his bucket one at a time and wouldn't stop until Mommy told him that was enough. They would reply that's okay, he can take more. We only went to our street and by the time we were done, he had a full basket. I thought that I didn't want hime to have too much, so we stopped there instead of going on to other streets. When we left home, he was sad that when he saw our house come into view because that meant we were done.

Eli's New Sunday Clothes