Bubbles and Books

Grams came to visit and watch Eli July 15-17th so I could go to a Math Conference in Houston. Michael came over one evening for dinner and played with Eli..... books and bubbles...loads of fun!

Where else are you suppose to blow bubbles? The kitchen of course!

Ice cream love.....

Eli had his first ice cream cone! He was in hog heaven!

Poppy Time!

Poppy came over to visit Eli when she came back from her trip to Michigan. We all three had ice cream time together... see next post!!

Dr Seuss

I have always like Dr. Seuss but for some reason, LOVE it now. I am having a lady make a platter for Eli's 1st birthday with several Seuss characters. She is also painting his rocking chair that Grams gave him with Seuss characters all over. Needless to say, Eli will be having a Dr. Seuss 1st birthday.

The platter has Eli's footprints as the "fox in socks" feet.

eli wasnt too sure of what we were doing to him...

I can't wait to see the final products! They should be done in a week or so.

I will post pics when I get them

A Walk in the Park

My goal for the summer was to take Eli to all or most of the parks in Houston... not happening! It has been sooo hot! We ventured out a few times to Meyer Park (which is my fave) but Eli's cheeks were so red and hot within 20 minutes. Eli and I have gone on a few bike rides as well but I worry about him getting too hot. We have now ventured to the gym setting where he plays with other kids in the "kids club" and I work out. I am really wanting Fall to come sooner rather than later so Eli and I can enjoy our walks and bike rides together again.

At Meyer Park, the squirrels run up to you expecting you to feed them. This one was really interested in Eli. look closely... the squirrel is to the right of the stroller.

Waco Trip

The Moffitt's took a trip to Waco on July 10th weekend to visit Gram's side of the family. Eli had a great time. On our first night there, he decided to show everyone that he could crawl. To see his first crawl video, go to the post labeled "Eli is on the move"momma's little man....

uncle Ray and Tatum

Jer brought his game Carcassonne

Eli spent some time with Pa

tatum played in the basket-o-toys

cousin Drew messed with Eli's blocks

Eli rocked with Grams late Saturday night. At one point Grams had both Tatum and Eli in her lap.

We went to see Jer's cousin, Amy's house, in Robinson. Loved the house and what a huge yard they had-- I think it was almost one acre... congrats Coy and Amy on the house!

We had a great visit to Waco. We had a shopping day on Saturday, crawling all over the house Saturday evening, and a wonderful lunch before we headed home. Thanks Waco Fam for having us over to visit. We had a great time! Love you all!

Camping in July-- Oh MY!!

We went to Mission Tejas State Park July 4th weekend. It was sooo hot!! We spent our day in the camper with a/c, outdoors in front of fans, or at Ratcliff Lake. The water in the lake was even luke warm... yuck! Michael & Tracy brought along their neice, Winter, for the trip. She kept Eli company when Uncle Jamie wasn't around.
Jer and Michael acting like dorks...

Uncle Michael played with Eli in his swimming pool.

Eli read Dr Seuss books to Papa James.

and then he read to Uncle Jamie and Grams....

Jer played on the playground...

Eli loved the swing.... and the breeze that came along with it...

We spent 4th of July in Crockett for fireworks. It was a good show that seemed to never end! Every time we thought it was over, it started up again! The fireworks show went from about 10pm to 11:30 or so. Eli loved the colors in the sky.

Eli is on the move!

Eli started crawling when we were in Waco visiting Jeramy's family. He also loves moving around in the walker (thank you, Raveena for letting us borrow). He has mastered the forward, turn, backward motions. Watch out little piggies! Eli's little walker will run you over and oh! does it hurt!! Eli was chasing me around the living room and giggled the whole time!

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Day 2-- well... the morning after the official "first".....Eli's first crawl!!

Summer is going by way to fast....

The Moffitt's have been on one adventure after another lately. We went to Arkansas from May 31- June 10th, floated the Comel on Father's Day weekend, camped at Mission Tejas, and visited family in Waco.

All in between, I have attended at least 1 teacher in-service training each week. This week is CAMT at George R Brown Convention Center for 3 days. It's a crazy math thing... you wait outside the door of the training for at least an hour in order to get your spot for a class. Then you must leave at least 30 minutes before it's over so you can wait in line for the next class. Lots of chaos!! WOW! My first class is at 8am and I must be there by 7 and in line in order to attend.... I know... crazy nutz! Jer just freaked that I said I have to be up by 5:30 and out the door by 6:15 to get there to line up.

Eli is doing absolutely wonderful! He is growing and changing every day. He is becoming quite the toot and quite a sweetie all in one! At his 9 month check up last week, he weighed 18 lbs, 9.5oz. He is 27 3/4 inches long. He checked out great and doc said to add table food (chopped up small of course) to his meals. I panicked about the gagging and choking... but doc said he will do it at 9 months or at 12... choose when. So here we are... trying "mommy food". Eli has tasted bits off of my plate and seems to only want what is on my plate now... forget the jar mushy food!!

CRAWLING TIME!!! We went to Waco this past weekend (July 10th) to visit Jer's family. On Friday night, Jeramy's uncle asked if Eli was crawling or walking yet... I said "no-- he wants to walk but doesn't get how to and is too inpatient for crawling..." then all of a sudden... wahlah! Eli crawls across the floor! I guess it was a "I'll show you, Mom" moment... well, Eli amazes me once again.... oh how I love that little man!

pics to come later... it's 10:53pm and I have to get up early.... will get them posted tomorrow.

Jer... this one is for you....

We returned from our river trip on Father's Day. Eli had a surprise for Daddy waiting at home. He gave his Daddy some "Daddy and Me" books for bedtime readings and money to get his new Bolle' sunglasses he wanted. Happy Father's Day, Jeramy. You are a wonderful father....we love you.
monster smooches for Daddy

A little late to post this...

We went to New Braunfels for our family river trip June 20th weekend. Eli stayed at the condo with Grams while we floated. However, we had a little pool for him with the cold river water in it and he wasn't too thrilled. Eli was just fine hanging out in the toobs and playing with Grams. I didn't take but a few pics of the trip... here we are at The Gristmill... one of our fave places to eat. Eli had a great time flirting with the waitresses.
me and my wonderful hubby....

Josh and Cassie came along for the trip.

Josh and Cassie are friends of Michael's from college (I think). I don't have pics of our swimming and "cliff diving" at Canyon Lake, but Cassie jumped off of a super duper high cliff into the water... she was brave!! Eli tried on Uncle Michael's hat

It was a great trip... sorry for the lack of photos. I think Michael took some pics but I don't have them....

Oh, one of the coldest things ever!!-- Michael had this "great" idea to swim in the river that comes out of the bottom of Canyon Lake. So here we all are... Michael, Jeramy, Jamie, Josh, Cassie, and I standing in this COLD water too chicken to really get in (or atleast past our knees). The water was so cold that our legs hurt from the temperature and turned numb and bright red in the end... Jer decided it would be funny to splash my back-- I snorted it was sooo cold! So for any of you daredevils... try swimming in the river there... reminded me of sticking my ankle in ice water bucket after spraining it.... yeah.. that cold.

Blog Book

The book arrived last week in the mail! Absolutely love it! My only suggestion is that if you have a post with a video, make sure you add a picture. When the site uploads your blog to make a book, it skips the videos. If you are OK with a post being words only... then you are OK... my lack of really looking at each page of the book to check this stuff ended with a couple posts without pics. Otherwise, the book is AWESOME! It is great quality like a yearbook.

want to print your blog page to a book?

found this... and ordered our first 6 months of blog posts with Eli.
just incase you are interested for your own blog page
http://blogger.sharedbook.com/pilot/framesetHome.do

Lunch with Pops

The Saturday after our trip, we went to Willie's Icehouse to eat lunch with Pops. It was his belated birthday lunch... Eli loves his Pops bunches and bunches!