Saturday, December 24, 2011

Three Old Pictures... Again

In November I did a post of Elijah's three year old pictures. However, when I did the post I only choose a few pictures to share. Then this past week, I started thinking that I really wanted Elijah to have all of his pictures (in his blog book) for him to look back on one day. So, here they are :)





















We never knew that we could love someone as much we LOVE him!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

More Holiday Fun

One of our Advent calendar activities was to make a gingerbread house. Well, things didn't quite go as planned. The icing (glue) was very sticky and hard to work with and Elijah's attention span didn't last too long either. But it still was a fun for all three of us.





 As you can see, we didn't get it completely done, but Elijah was just as proud of it anyways.

Sunday Fun
Last Sunday, after church, we took Elijah to the Galleria. We had lunch at Rain Forest Cafe which was nice, except the tigers you see in this picture kept scaring him when they roared. I have to admit they were very loud! Now we know if we go back again, we need to sit farther back from the displays. Elijah is such a tropper! Even with him getting scared/startled, he said he had fun and wanted to come back. I LOVE his positive attitude!

Got milk?
 Still unsure about everything even in Daddy's arms (Sorry Byron eyes are closed in this shot)

Enjoying the train ride at the Galleria



*The quality of the Galleria pictures aren't the best because I didn't have normal camera with me :(

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Elijah's Video Message from Santa Claus

Click on the link below to see Elijah's special video
http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/m9TBAprg559ILO3xRuT64mg

Here are some pictures of him while he was watching the video. He was so excited and watched it three times!





Thursday, December 15, 2011

A Little of This & A Little of That

I haven't posted things about Elijah in awhile so I thought it would be to post a few things.
  • On Elijah's 3 year check up he was in 3 feet tall and 30 pounds. Still a little on the lower percentage of weight and height, but nothing to worry about. :) 
  • He continues to be a picky eater and eating to him is not important to him
  • His favorite thing to eat, hands down, is cheese
  • Still only drinks water and milk
  • Naps are hit and missed now
  • If he watches TV, all he wants to watch is Caillou or Mickey Mouse; Sometimes he will watch Sesame Street or Sid the Science Kid
  • He isn't really into any one particular toy or themed toys
  • Is really into Christmas this year
  • One of the funniest things he does is when he does something he shouldn't do, he will say every time, "Mommy/Daddy, don't come see". We LOVE that he hasn't figured out not to tell us...yet.
  • Is really enjoying school and is doing well. He is excited when it is a school day and especially if it is a day he goes to music.  
  • One of the sweetest things he has started doing lately, is out of the blew, he will say, "Mommy, I want to give you a hug and kiss". Talk about melting my heart every time!
Just some random pics I took of him one very cold evening.




 Before the hard freeze, we went out to our backyard and picked the grapefruits so they wouldn't freeze. I think his facial expression is so funny in this picture!


Helping his Daddy put up more Christmas lights. He is really into all the lights this year, and even asked his Daddy to put more out in our yard. Oh course, Byron didn't say no. :)



Below is a few Advent calendar activities we have done over the last 2 weeks. We are doing an activity every other day until the week of Christmas and then we will do an activity everyday.
 Baked sugar cookies, iced them and now it's time to decorate them.
                                         

Playing with snow (aka shaving cream)

Again, this year, are doing Elf on the Shelf. Elijah is into SO into it this year compared to last year. The first thing he wants to do, as soon as he wakes up, is go to find Jingle Bells. After that it is always to move the candy candy on the Advent calendar and see what the surprise is. Finally,  he wants to take off one ring from his countdown chain. Thanks Mrs. Mandy for the chain!




Friday, December 9, 2011

Elijah and Santa 2011

I started a tradition last year to display Elijah's pictures with Santa from previous years along with the most recent one. It is amazing to us to see how much he has changed from year to year.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

'Tis the Season

 Elijah enjoying working on his snowman
 Heading to the mailbox to mail his letter to Santa
Den Christmas Tree 
 View from upstairs - the train wouldn't fit under the tree like we had planned so we put it beside it
 Front room tree
Elijah's tree in his room


Going to See Santa

 Elijah and Santa
 Elijah did GREAT with Santa