Happy Birthday Joey

 

 

 This is the only picture I have with Elijah apart from the hospital pictures.  Thanks Peter for taking the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pop pop, my bother decorates me.  Please come visit and save me :)

 

Smiles

Can you believe it?  Mommy threw me in the sink right after she did the dishes.  At least she switched to baby soap. 

 

It was time for a haircut.  Joey’s grins make me giggle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a combined birthday party, we took Peter, Joey and 4 other little boys to a hockey game.

We managed to be on the jumbotron 3 times thanks to all the awesome dance moves these boys had!

Of course, Eli came too!

Yuck for the stomach bug

 

Our weekend turned out a bit different than we expected.  It was the youth group retreat and mark was suppose to go all weekend while I just went there for the day Saturday.  Well, two hours after Mark left Joey started throwing up and continued through the night.  I started feeling yucky around 4 am while I fed Eli.  Luckily, Ellen came to the rescue and watched the boys in the morning until Mark made it home.  All day we’ve been lounging around.  I think it’s a 24 hour bug thankfully! And I think it spared Eli.

But Mom, I can’t fold.

I am getting better at sleeping though

I built a big fort for the boys upstairs. they had fun.

Cutie

 

It’s been a few days, but we’re still alive around here.  Just a little sleepy.

 

  Daddy is so good at catching the sleepy smiles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elijah still doesn’t like to sleep laying down so we snuggle him into the bean bag a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 His awake times are much more fun these days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fist bump! Don’t leave me hanging!

When we put Eli at ground level it’s not very long before the hugs and kisses attack.

 

First bath

Brother snuggles

 

Watch out Ferris State

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark made the trainers and the kids love it!  It makes learning to skate much for fun for everyone!

The ice melted yesterday, but we’re hoping for another great week

of skating soon when it drops into the 20’s again.

Me and My Brothers

 

We enjoyed an awesome visit with Andrew and Mandy last weekend and everyone was sad to see them go.  I have to load some pictures from Mark’s computer.  This is all I had from my camera.

 

We’re still working on sleeping around here. So far the favorite spot is in the bean bag chair.

Mommy and Daddy say Elijah looks like Joey.  What do you think? Below is Joey at about the same age.

 

 

Joey wanted to read a book so I told him to read to Elijah.

And then Joey showed him all the stuffies.

I was trying to get a few birth announcement pictures and caught a few cute moments.

 

 

Oh boy boy boy

 

I will post the ice rink and skating pictures tomorrow :)

Day 13

 

Eli has a stuffy nose so we’re not getting much sleep.  Good thing he’s cute.

 

Grandpa and Grandma came to visit Eli last Saturday. Yay. Eli got all dressed up and Grandma got some good snuggles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snuggling in the blankets and snuggling with big brother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m awake – and it’s daytime – woohoo!