Birthday Bash!!

Eli had a great time this past weekend...celebrating his FIRST birthday!!

I love opening gifts with Daddy!!!

I am not so sure that I like this icing....
Well, it's not that bad...
Let's try out some chocolate icing....
What is that Daddy???
I like this mat...can I eat it mama?
My friend Jasper and I LOVE playing together!!!
Mama's first attempt at making a cake. (She's no Jenny Riddle...for sure!!)

I love Molly and Toliet Paper

Eli loves getting into EVERYTHING that he can lay his hands on. On this day, he fell in love with this picture of his cousin Molly. He took it everywhere......

...into the kitchen....
...into the living room.....
oh...don't drop her....
Now ...let's get into the toliet paper....
Wow...look what this stuff can do....
...this roll keeps going and going and going....
...mama ..do you want some?
gee...this is a lot...i wonder why mama is just taking my picture and not getting on to me???...

Oh look..it sticks to my hands
Oh no...i guess i better clean this mess up!!
Note: Mama put the basket of toliet paper on top of the toliet now...I have to find something else to get in to in the bathroom....well, there is always the magazine rack.....

Walk like an Eli....

Here is a video of Eli and his walking adventures. He had taken his first steps a couple of weeks ago...but then on Sunday he decided to start really walking. In this video he starts screaming because I had opened the box of uno cards on the floor to see if he would walk to me...well it worked!!

More fun pictures

Eli is obsessed with the uno cards...this is not the first photo session that I have taken with them... Eli loves floating in the turtle float

Here are the little ones floating around...Cate, Molly and Eli enjoyed the water together Eli also got to take a "sink" bath given by grandaddy. He is the best!!

Going down the slide with Madelyn and Molly

Beach Time

Eli enjoyed his first trip to the beach. Here are some cute photos of the trip.

I love it when my mommy holds me on the beach! :)The whole gangFamily ShotMe and Pa hanging out on the beach
Catching some rays with GrandmaPlaying with Aunt KristaLooking at the boats with mama and daddy

I think that I just ate some sand!!

I love playing in my own personal pool and eating sweet potatoes!

Summer Fun in the neighborhood

Here are the boys of Royal Oaks. They all had to wear some form of a hat for the picture. Boys will be boys....

It is quite hard to get 3 little ones to take a picture, but Baxter proved to be the easiest one!!

Notice the cute matching outfits that Baxter and Eli have on...they were both about to grow out of them..so we had to take a picture session before we put the outfits away!!

Jasper and Eli have turned into BIG buddies this summer and they LOVE to play with each other. Their biggest highlight of the day is running around the living room chasing one another. As soon as we walk in the door Jasper always says, "Baby Eli start crawling around now."

Aren't they SO STINKIN' CUTE!

Happy 4th of July!!!!

Eli enjoyed his first 4th of July....including chewing on the little flag....

...trying his first 4th of July cookie (made by grandma)

...and playing with the oven mitt...

Hope you had a great holiday weekend! Love Eli