trapeze

my brother installed a zip line in his backyard. i couldn't believe eli could hold on the whole way...he's so buff:)

gobble gobble

we were supposed to spend thanksgiving day with adam's mom and the evening with his

dad...however, the stomach flu had different plans. eli has had it for a few days, throwing up and the whole nine yards. i have it also but just feel all around yuck. we ended up making it to dinner with grandma ellen, grandpa scott (adam's dad and step mom) and great aunt peggy. that is the first picture...eli would not pose, the little stinker:) the second is grandma nancy (adam's mom) with eli and lyla.

la beach

here's papa with all four grandkids. i know it's not that great of a picture, but i think it is the only one with all of them in it. we had a grand time at the beach...or the "big river" as eli calls it...can you tell he's an idahoan? he and shane had fun running from the waves and playing in the sand. it was a beautiful day.

both shane and hailey adore "bebe." shane loves to hold her hand and play with her. hailey points and says "bebe" over and over again in a high pitched squealy voice. it's fun.

does he look happy or what? there was a nice swell the day after we arrived.

lyla

she rolled over today for the first time:)

almost...

big enough to swallow Jonah, but not quite. adam caught this steelhead yesterday in the boise river. it was 27" long and weighed around 7 lbs...the biggest freshwater fish he has ever caught.

sayings to remember

eli and i were reading the story of jonah today. when we got to the page where the great fish was about to swallow jonah, eil said, "i wish daddy could catch a fish like that."

you know the saying "it isn't what you say, it's how you say it." i got a does of that today. eil was being a bit of a 2-year-old, ignoring and testy. i was putting him in his car seat when he was fidgeting and would not sit so i could strap him in. "eli, put your bottom in the seat," i said with a furrowed brow. he looked up at me, smoothed his fingers over my eyebrows and said, "put them like that." nuf said.

and lastly, he is so into being "big." he was saying how when he gets "big" he can carry uncle jesse around. first off, my brother is about 6'3" tall, and second, why would he want to carry him around? guess i'll never know.

the big 30

the 16th was my 30 birthday:) it was a great day...i got to sleep in (lyla slept for 10 hours! a pr for her) and then adam watched them while i watched the inside of my eyelids. adam would not tell me what i was doing that night. we dropped eli off at my parents and headed downtown and ended up at the bittercreek restaurant (if you have not been there you should go and get any one of their great hamburgers). we walked in and there was a table with some of my close friends:) what a nice surprise. we ate and talked and enjoyed a kid free evening. it was sooooo nice. thank you ladies for coming (and stephanie for setting it up, you're a great friend. didn't get many pics, but here is one. if you look closely you can see the necklace adam got me, not very well, but you can...i'de been hinting at it a lot:) one charm says "eli" and you guessed it, the other "lyla." it is from idelcarecharms.com, I JUST LOVE IT!!!

in the sky...

i forgot to post this when it happened, but it was just to cute to let slip by. the other day we were driving to my parents house and eli was looking out his window and suddenly said, "there he is! i see him!" "who?" i asked. "God!" he said. i asked him what he looked like, he said he didn't know. i told him that God looks a lot like him and me. "and daddy and papa and grandma and yiwa(lyla)?" he asked. "yes" i told him. he thought for a minute and said, "i think God would like to pet yiwa in her jeans." (it was her first day in jeans, which obviously made an impression).
i was telling this to my friend sharon when her 5 year old boy collin said, "i don't think it was God...maybeeee...it was...a parachuter or something. but if you see someone coming down from the sky like this (putting his hand up in the air and bringing it slowly to the ground) around Christmas time, that's Jesus." all so matter-o-fact. it would be so grand to be able to live inside a kids head for a day.

lucky!!!

kristie and i took the kids for a "get your pre-baby body back" walk on the greenbelt this afternoon. on my way home i looked over and saw this squirrel munchin' down on this lollipop. of course eli got a huge kick out of it...actually i did, too, it was just so funny! if you look closely you can even see his little pink tongue lapping up some sweet orange high fructose corn syrup.

the zoo

we went to the zoo the other day with my parents, which combined two of eli's favorite things - his grandparents and animals. he has been playing it cool these days when we offer him something that he really likes. for example..."eli, would you like some eggnog?" his response, a very calm and collected, "yeah, that might be good" nodding his head and squinting his eyes. when i know inside he's screaming "wahooooo!!! eggnog!!! i LOVE eggnog!!! it's the first thing i've asked for every morning since we got it!" but when i asked if he wanted to go to the zoo with g-ma and papa, he yelled "yeah! let's do that!" so we did.

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rotten egg

"can i have some rotten egg?" is not a question i thought i'd hear from my two (almost three!) year old. but since the arrival of eggnog, we've been hearing it a lot. no matter how many times we tell him what it's really called, he still calls it rotten egg. yesterday he took me to the fridge pointed up and said, "i have some advice, i want some of that."
Anyway, yesterday adam came home early from work and took eli up into the foothills to look for snakes, bugs, salamanders, and yizzards (i'll miss that one when he can say his l's correctly). i think it was a to cold up there because they only found this cricket (it's dead) and another one that was alive. thankfully, they did not bring that one home. the dead one is now sitting on our kitchen counter (in a jar of course). i put it there last night after eli tried to have it eat dinner with us...i just could not sit and watch that thing while i ate! here are a few pics of their trip...

this is a picture only a dad could take, i just imagine him tumbling down those rocks...

i got to spend some quality time with lyla. we sang some patty cake, played and smiled a lot. obviously i don't get to do that as much with her as i did with eli, so it is tons of fun. she is so smiley:) yesterday morning i thought her ears were bothering her again, but she seemed a lot better last night. maybe there is just some fluid in her ear causing pain. but we had a really good time last night. i can't wait until she's a bit bigger, she's going to be a hoot:)

formember

definition provided by eli: to not remember, to forget. his use in a sentence - you formembered to bring the spoons.

jeans...

so eli is suddenly in the fort building phase...he takes his animals in there and says, "you can't see me!" super fun.

this is lyla in her very first pair of jeans.

gerrrrrr

"he's working sooo hard! look at his muscles, they're hard!" eli said as adam carved the pumpkin, so impressed with his daddy's handiwork. it was so funny, he disappeared into his room for a minute and came back with his multi tool. he then proceeded to "carve" the pumpkin himself.

we had been talking about "trick or treating" all day, so when he finally got to do it and the people answered the door he would say "trick or treating!" it's better than last year when he would yell "i want some can-dy!!!"

as you can see eli got to be a gerring tiger and lyla went as a baby. she seems to be feeling better. i don't know if i mentioned it, but she has yet another ear infection. this time it's a double. it is so sad. it's so hard because by the time she gets well we have about a week and a half of the real lyla and then the fussiness starts, builds and culminates in a day of full out screaming and a trip to the doc and then the pharmacy. i hope this cycle breaks with this one. but for now, she's mostly back. she's so happy when she feels good...i love it.