Lauren's Visit

One of my very best friends from high school, Lauren, came to visit us for the weekend this past weekend. She is living around the Dallas area and flew out to see us! Thank you, Lauren, for coming- it was a great weekend!

It took us a while to get a picture with Trinity- she was occupied with other things! It's hard to get an almost 2 year old to do what you want them to sometimes!

Lauren and Trinity playing with Lauren's phone- Lauren was so good about letting her push all of the buttons and 'talk' all she wanted!

One of Trinity's new favorite things to play- clean people's tummies! Here she had Lauren lay down on the kitchen floor so she could clean her tummy! Lauren was such a good sport!

A Big Boy!

I go back to work in 2 weeks...not excited about that...don't really like to think about it at all right now...anyway, so when Eli turned 1 month old, we started giving him a bottle once a day to make sure he'd take it and to start getting him used to it for when I go back to work. Here he is taking his first bottle from Daddy...and it didn't even phase him!

I go back to work in 2 weeks...not excited about that...don't really like to think about it at all right now

Bonding Time!

Trinity is starting to like Eli more and more. This day she wanted me to lay him on the floor to get him dressed...I thought she wanted to watch...the next thing I knew she had ran to her room to get one of her favorite books and was 'reading' to him about Jesus! It was very cute!

Trinity is also becoming more and more of a helper...Eli lost his pacifier and she was very helpful in putting it back in for him- usually she takes it from him! She can be an angel when she wants to! Don't let her cuteness fool you, though- she has an ornery streak!
"Okay, Mom! You can take our picture now!"

Growing Boy!

Here's Eli at about 3 weeks...he's really growing and filling out! He's been in a pattern of being awake about an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening; tonight, though, he was awake for almost 3 hours!! I'm hoping that means tonight he'll sleep longer than 2 hours at a time before wanting to eat again!

Playtime with Daddy!

Trinity and Aaron goofing around in the living room...they would hang upside down on the chair and just giggle together!

Here Trinity wanted to be swaddled like Eli...and of course Daddy couldn't say 'no'!

Mimi's Visit!

Mimi, Julie's mom, was able to come out and visit this past weekend and meet Eli. They both loved snuggling up together! Of course, Trinity wanted her time with Mimi and pulled her around the house politely commanding her to, "Sit down." Thanks for coming out, Mom, and for all of the baking you did!! We loved having you and can't wait until you're able to come back!

2 of Their Favorite Things...

Here are a couple pictures of what Trinity and Eli love doing...Trinity loves being outside. One of our neighbors has some bright flowers- they had butterflies on them all weekend and Trinity loved looking at them.

Eli loves sleeping...he's started to be awake about an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, besides the times he eats. He's filling out and seems to have grown so much in the last 2 weeks!