House Full of Boys!

All day today Eli has been standing without holding on to anything. He was doing this for 30+seconds and waving,etc. So I thought I would see if he would walk to me. I was holding one of the balls that he got for his birthday to try and coax him to walk to me. Sure enough he did - he took 4 steps. Jared was home and got to see as well. So I am guessing that in probably less than a week he will have this whole walking thing figured out. Also right before Eli's birthdays party Jared was filming Aidan to make sure our video camera was working (grumble, grumble, grumble (I hate our video camera - it has a mind of its own)). He was asking Aidan questions, his age, etc. He then asked him "Aidan what is your favorite thing in the whole wide world?" Fully expecting him to say Star Wars - we were surprised with a different answer. He responded "MY FAMILY". It's nice to know that at 5 years old he recognizes that his family is so important. I hope that he rem...

Yesterday was Eli's first birthday and we had such a wonderful day. We made a really yummy breakfast that we knew Eli would enjoy - Waffles - minus the syrup of course - that could get really messy. He thoroughly enjoyed it as it was different from the daily fruit or oatmeal that he eats. Then we headed in to town to go to the Hand's On museum for kids. This is the first time that we have been and it was so much fun. The big boys enjoyed it more than Eli since he was in his stroller. We had such a good time I think we will be getting a yearly membership. Here are some pictures of Eli in his new shoes from Grandma Laurie and of the museum. What a big boy!!! I still can't believe he is 1 already!! Painting Mini Grocery Store Checking out at the grocery store The boys favorite - the Lego race track - Jared said that if we ever have a house big enough we will build one of these in the basement. Future Doctors??? After the museum we went to lunch and then back home. We w...