Elis birthday festivities started out on Sunday January 15th! We had a lil birthday party for him with his lil friends at a bouncy house place called Jump 2 It and all the kids had so much fun!!! We played games, played in the bouncy houses, and then sang happy birthday, ate cake, and opened gifts! He loved every single second of it and when he told me he had to go potty once we went into the bathroom and he said “thank you for doing this party for me – I am excited and it is so fun!” awwww!! Such a sweetheart!!! I love him so so much! Zacary sure had a fun time too!!!! We got him a lil truck to open while brother opened gifts and he loved it!!! There were a total of 13 kids there :]:] I loved seeing Eli run around and wanting us all to come with him and jump and show us what he can do – everywhere he went he wanted Mommy Daddy and Zacary to come too awwww such a sweetie :] He is growing up sooo darn fast and I just can’t believe it! He got all kinds of neat gifts!!! Noah, Zacary, and I got him some of the Disney Cars and Cars 2 race cars he does not have yet and he loves them so much that since he got them he has slept with them at nap and bed time awwww!! We also got the 4 of us tickets to go to the circus in Feb for his birthday too :]:] He is so excited to go but says he does not want the clowns to touch him hahaha he is so cute! He went up to all the kids and told them thank you for the gifts and it was adorable – he kept telling Zacary “thank you so much for getting me a present Zacary” awww melt my heart!!!
After his party we went and ate dinner where Eli wanted which was a pizza place close to our house called Stevi B’s :] He looooves that place and loves the macaroni and cheese pizza the best! Zacary is also a huge fan and they gobbled their pizza on up :]:] We went home and relaxed the rest of the night and then on the 16th his actual birthday we took the boys to an NBA game (for a grrrreat price) for Eli’s birthday! It was so much fun :]:] Both boys did sooooo good and loved it and the nachos they ate too :]:] I am so glad I found the tickets out of the blue because we all had such a fun time!!! We stayed til the 4th quarter and then decided to go because the boys were getting hungry for dinner and in order not to spend an arm and a leg for dinner at the concessions ha we decided to go out to eat :] We let Eli decide of course, and he wanted to go to McDonalds so we went there and had a fun time playing with the boys in the playland and then came home and relaxed for the night :]
Elijah Andrew- you make me smile in so many ways and it makes me and my heart so so sooooo happy! You are such a sweet boy full of love and smiles and are always so happy! I will never forget the day I found out I was pregnant with you and how I surprised Daddy and how extremely excited we were to meet you and just planning everything for you! You are my lil hero and one of the best things that has ever happened to me! You make me so so sooooo happy and I enjoy seeing your sweet face every single day!!! Even though you are my son- you are a great great greeeeat friend to me and always will be. I pray every single day that the love we have for each other now and with as close as we are now is how our friendship is our entire lives. I will always do anything in the world for you and I hope you always know how much love I have for you!!!
I remember seeing your sweet face for the first time- and that moment will never ever go away! You bring me so much joy, peace, and love in my life! You and your baby brother both do and I am so thankful to be able to stay home with both of you every single day and spend all the time in the world with you. I cherish every single moment with both of you and will always always love the 2 of you so much and do anything for you boys! <3
You are a very sweet sweet boy always full of love, laughs, and smiles! You are so hilarious too! You say and do the funniest things and it makes me laugh so much! There is definitely not a day that goes by that you don’t bring me so many laughs and smiles and I just love you so so so much!!!
***What are you up to my Mr. Eli!?***
--You are talking very good and in sentences all the time! It seems you learn more and more to say everyday and it is adorable! You will talk our ears off and it’s so so cute! You have a shy side to you, especially around people you do not know all that well (you get that form your Mama hehe) – BUT there is not one thing wrong with being shy if you ask me :]
--You know your shapes, days of the week, the weather, colors, you count all the way to 16 by yourself, you know numbers 1 thru 10 when they are wrote out and can tell me which number is which, you are starting to learn your letters and so far are good with A, E, L, I, and Z! Of course your name letters are a given ha, and then when you see a Z you say “that is Zacary’s name” awww :] I sit down and do lessons with both boys of what their age should be learning at that time everyday during the week! This week we worked on the letter A and the number 1 and some nursery rhymes and others too! He knows how to trace an A and a B and his number 1 too! It is soooo cute and I am sooo stinkin proud of my babies!!!
--You are very good at matching things!! You can tell when 2 things look alike and what a difference is in them! We play bingo and you help Zacary play and can match each object I call out and cover it with a bingo chip! The objects are animals, fruit, letters, numbers, sports items, etc. It is so much fun and you are so so very smart!!! You also will see letters or numbers anywhere (store signs, books, TV, magazines, etc) and point out a letter or number and tell me what it is all on your own! When he sees an E he says “hey that is in my name” :]:]
--According to our scale at home you are 31 lbs! We go for our 3 yr and 15 mo checkup very soon and I am anxious to see how big the 2 of you are! I know Zacary is only like 5 lbs less than Eli – but Eli was the same built as Zacary… the exact same when he was Zacary’s age and it is sooo cute! You wear size 11 in shoes and you are in 3T and some 4T hirts and 3T pants! You still nap everyday – between an hour and a half or two hours! You take good naps and need your nap still! If you go without a nap you are one sad boy and it breaks my heart with the meltdowns you have :[ So we do good with taking naps for you my buddys!! You go to bed around 9pm and are such a night owl (you get that from your Mama too hehe) :] You wake up between 7:45am and 8:30am!
--You love Happy Feet, Cars and Cars 2, Lion King, Barney, Mickey Mouse, Dora, Little Bear, and Toy Story! You also love to play toddler learning games on the computer, going to playgroup, going to Barnes and Noble and Monkey Joes, you love to do toddler learning workbooks with Mama, you say the sweetest lil things and are such a good lil boy and always so happy, you love to color, play the wii (and he is so good haha), play baseball (he is playing t-ball in the spring woot woot), play your learning baseball game that involves matching letters, numbers, and colors too! You love to eat and you are not too picky (even though sometimes he goes through picky stages b/c that is just the age thing!!) – your favorite meal is breakfast, you love snacks, going to the library and your classes we go to for you and baby brother, love being outside, playing at parks, bathtime, being with Mommy Daddy and Zacary, being such a great big helper and you are always so proud of yourself awww, snuggling before nap and bed, reading stories, football, watching baseball and football games, playing with your brother and giving him hugs and kisses and saying “I love you Zacary” awww melts my heart!!!! You also love to look out for your baby brother so much and you are so protective of him… it’s sooooo adorable! You both have times of lil arguments and disagreements with each other which does happen with all kids haha… but it always works out good between the 2 of you and you both would do anything in the world for one another :] You 2 are good lil buddies and so close and I adore you both so so so much! It’s waaaaay cute!!! You love to sit on our laps, have your back runned and hair rubbed, have us hold you, you love for Mommy to lay with you a bit before nap and bed and read a story and sing songs, you say "I love you" to Mommy and Daddy so so much and it is soooo awesome and an amazing feeling :], you love listening to music, watching the Wiggles, and I would say your favorite music is country music and all the toddler lil tunes – with “old mcdonalds farm” being one of your faves :] You know all the songs very good and sing them and like to sing with Mommy when we sing Zacary songs before bed too awww :] You are a huge hugger and kisser too – it’s so stinkin sweet :]
--He has been potty trained since last May 2011! He does sooooo good!!! I can’t even tell you the last accident he has had (knock on wood haha)!! He gets in deep sleeps and has to wear a pull-up to bed at night still but that is just dandy with me – he can’t help it and it is very common!! He does great with nap though, just only at night time is when he has to wear the pull-up. He is very good with telling us when he has to pee and number 2 and always does a great job – very very proud!!! My Mr Zacary loves to try and pull toilet paper everywhere while we use the bathroom too hahahaha such a funny lil guy he is!
--Eli still loves to play in his room and Zacary’s so much with Mommy and brother during the day! It is so much fun and I definitely soak these days up with my boys!!! Eli is still a wonderful helper and gets so proud to help me out with things :] It is so cute!!! He will bring me anything I ask him to and is so proud of himself! He likes to get it by himself too and says “I did that all by myself” :]:] He loves for Mommy and Daddy to play with him and be with him and I just love that so much!!! His baby brother and him are great friends and it is so much fun to watch them grow and play together!!! It is the best thing ever having 2 lil boys so close in age and so close to each other already!!! <3>
--Eli can tell you tons of baseball players names, he knows most of the teams for baseball and football too haha! He is one sports lover!!! I love it!! He asks why already at times too hahaha, he can put how old he is on his fingers and knows how old Zacary is too, he tries to read books esp to his baby brother awwww, he can draw a smiley face, can tell what his name is when I write it out and Zacary’s as well! He does not know how to write yet but that is expected at 3 years old and we plan to work on that more later on!!!
--Eli has one heck of a memory!!! He remembers things sooo good and can tell a story in the order it happened and just remembers everything, literally! It’s soooo cute! He loves to say I love you to us, lay with us in our bed before nap and bed with baby brother too of course, he loves doing puzzles too and is good with them!!! Zacary watches every step Eli does and loves to do the same! He loves doing craft and coloring with us during the week and Eli does as well and I just love that! They are such sweet lil boys!!!!! Zacary looks up to his big brother and it melts my heart!!!! They are just too cute together and will always be so so close and I am so happy for them that they have that relationship!!! They are both always such sweethearts to me- it melts my heart so much how sweet they are and how much love they show me everyday- I am so truly blessed in so many ways!!! He also tells me what his full name is, Zacary’s is, and me and Noah’s too! When you ask him how you spell his name he says “E, L, I” :]
Daddy and I talk about you and Zacary every single day and night! We are so thankful and blessed for 2 sweet lil boys and love looking back to our great times with you 2 and can't wait to see what the future brings for our lil family too <3 You both are so wonderful and awesome and absolutely amazing in so many ways! I can’t say it enough with how much I love you, how proud I am of you in so many ways and always will be, and how no matter what you 2 will always be my sweet lil babies that I will do anything for! Thank you for all the smiles, laughs, times of love, and all the joy you bring in my life! You 2 baby boys are my true lil heroes and I love you sooooo much!
*This is Zacary (left) at 15 months and Eli (right) at 12 mo awwww my sweet babies* :]
*My baby Eli in 2009 (1st pic -- newborn pic in the hospital), 2010 (2nd pic -- 1 yr old), 2011 (3rd pic -- 2 yrs and baby brother is almost 4 months), 2012 (3 yrs and baby brother is almost 16 months) -- soooo cute and makes me tear up how much they boh have grown!! Such wonderful lil boys and such sweethearts!!!!*
I feel like 3 years old is like an official time to say "yes Jess -- your lil baby boy is 3 and a big boy!" it has hit me all at once! 3 years means they aren't free at some restaurants anymore, they cost more to go to Monkey Joe's and the movie theatres, they are moved to the big kids' room in church nurseries (as I found out today and that did not go over well -- I had 2 very sad baby boys that did not want me leaving... so I took them back with me b/c it broke my heart!!!!) -- it just seems like all of a sudden 3 is the age where people have different places and rules for them! Why 3!? I can understand 5, but 3!? It really hits me hard ha! I know my babies will always be my babies forever though, that indeed is the truth! I just do not want them to grow up so so so fast on me... I cherish every single second with my baby boys... and I love that!!! I just don't want them walking out on me for college before I blink again! AHHHHHH breaks my heart ... OH but how I love every single darn second of being a Mommy and wouldn't trade one thing in the world for it!!!!!!! LOVE my babies to pieces!!!
Happy 3rd birthday my Mr Eli! I LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH and so does Zacary and Daddy :]:]
Here is a slide show of his birthday pictures :] We had such a great time! I loved it we did a party with fam at Christmas too b/c Eli loved it also, it is so close to his birthday anyway, and it gave us time to do a family and be with family for his birthday too! I plan to do this with Zacary even if it is a lil early too for when family is down in summer or fall to visit! It will be fun!!! Here are his pics for his bday party with friends and when we went to the game too :] (I really hope this slideshow doesn't cut off the pics -- but if it does all his bday pics are under the January 2012 album on FB!!!) :]
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