Today Eli took his first steps. Jeff had already gone to church and Eli was playing in the living room with his toys while I folded laundry. I looked up and he was trying to reach for his car that had tipped over. He had things in both hands and I think was confused as to how he was going to grab the car and hold on to his bell and his moracca. He was trying to stand when I noticed that his right leg was stuck, but he kept on trying to stand anyway and then swung the right leg around after he stood up. This was the first time he had ever stood with all his weight on one leg. Then he looked at the car and took a step, then took another. I couldn't believe it. So I set up the camera and moved him to the other side of the room. He did it again and that is what you will get to see. These are his next few steps....maybe steps 3, 4, and 5....he he he....










Eli also put on quite the show at church this morning, taking a few steps for Michelle (our Doula at Eli's birth)


Helping Dada load the car for our camping trip over Memorial. We leave on Wednesday for Sumpter, Oregon, and come back on Monday or Tuesday. We did a test run to see if everything fit, including our Jogger. We got everything in just fine and even have some elbow room.



Eli doing his funny head down thing that he does....then back up for air.




This was so cool...last night he started scooping his food up with the spoon and putting it in his mouth. He has had his spoon for some time now, but has only used it for chewing on. I think he has been watching Jeff and I and decided to give it a try himself. These pictures are one right after the other to show how cool his spoon skills are!!!

Early this week we took family pictures. Josh and Green and their boys meet us down at the park and Green took the shots. She's really good and got some great ones. Josh helped a ton too. All the ones where Eli is laughing is because Josh is jumping up and down behind Green making Eli laugh. It was pretty funny.
These are just a few that Jeff picked out and emailed to me to get on the blog. We have over a hundred!!! So This weekend were gonna have to sit down and pick out our favorites and get them printed. Eli did good...he loves the camera.

This past Sunday we held our first Community Dinner. Eli woke up from his nap with a whole house and deck full of people. Of course he was excited to see all of his favorite people, and all at his house to boot. He cruised around and worked the room. Lots to see and do. At one point he had found a barbecue chip on the ground and Mirabella found him and told me. I grabbed it at the last second....

Isabelle and Eli

Eli's been doing really well this last week. He is eating good and sleeping good. The last few nights he has been sleeping through the night. He hasn't really done that since before he had the stomach flu. His new foods this week have been black beans (mashed with brown rice) and toast with cashew butter. Both of which he loves. These are good foods for him to eat because they are complete proteins, which he needs. Eli also had his Well Baby check up this week. He's only a whole 16 lbs 12oz's, but Dr. Mattern said that he is a very healthy boy with lots of energy and very happy!!! All good things. So he just said that he's probably a little under weight because he was sick last month and not to worry, he'll even out. And told us some good sources of protein. He also said that we could feed him meat it we want but that it's up to us. I think we'll wait a little bit longer.