September 22, 2010

Elly and Miles on the iPod

Elly was showing Miles a little game on the iPod...and making noises at him...and licking him.

Miles Peekaboo



And...

Elly Quotes

On the way to school today, Elly got to sit in her new booster chair.  She was pretty excited that it had armrests, cupholders, and no special straps - that is, that the car seat belt goes over her instead of the car seat harness.

Brandon:  Elly, what do you think of your new seat?

Elly:  It's great!  I'm just like a big, old lady!

Brandon:  Wha?

Elly:  I get to use the seat belt from the car, like a grown-up lady does.

September 21, 2010

The Baby Whisperer

(Make sure you click through to the actual blog post in order to see the video.)

We saw this video about the Puppy Whisperer, so we thought we'd give it a try on Miles...cuz, well...he's kind of like a puppy.  Anyway, it apparently puts him in a trance.

Oh yeah, and Elly's in a princess dress of course.

September 20, 2010

Elly Quotes

Elly:  Dad, watch this!  (She begins spinning around)


Brandon:  Oh, are you going to get dizzy and fall down?

Elly:  No.  The house is going to spin and move all around.  Watch!

(After a moment she stops and looks around)


Elly:  Look!  It's moving!

(I couldn't bring myself to tell her that I couldn't see it, so...)


Brandon:  Cool!

September 16, 2010

Elly Quotes

We have a big unfinished basement room where we keep all our stuff (read: boxes and boxes of crap we don't use anymore). Elly had wandered in there from around the corner where we had been together.

Me: "Elly, where are you?"

Elly: "I'm in the baby section."

September 15, 2010

Miles is 7 Months Old!

 
 
 
 

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We love this shirt that Adobe sent us in the mail as a gift for Miles' birth (I wish I had one just like it!). Miles is still the best! We all just love him so much. He's so easy going. He lets other people hold him and gives strangers smiles. He sleeps through the night (most of the time). He is the smiley-est person on the planet. He loves technology; if there is a screen (TV, iPod, phone, computer) anywhere in the room, he heads directly for it. He has the best belly laugh ever. He likes food. Mashed potatoes is a favorite as well as frozen peas, "puffs", and blueberry muffin (thanks, Daddy!). He likes to get in the shower and scoot around on his tummy, but ends up playing with the drain the entire time, trying to stick his fingers in it. The water pours down on him. He comes out with his eyes all red; but, he doesn't care. His favorite thing now is rolling over during a diaper change. This is not something I love about Miles. But, he's usually laughing all the while so I can't really be mad.

LOVE HIM!

September 13, 2010

Elly Quotes

Elly learned about Australia in preschool today, so we talked about it on the way home:

Mom: "Elly, did you know that I have a friend from Australia?"

Elly: "What's her name?"

Mom: "Esther."

Elly: "Oh! Cause she's from Estheralia!" (As if to say, Of Course!)

September 9, 2010

Elly Quotes

Elly is almost 4 and still pretty dedicated to sucking her thumb. This is causing us some concern. So, today I tried to scare Elly out of sucking her thumb by explaining the concept of "buck teeth" and the resulting braces. She looked a little confused, so I offered to show her pictures online.

Me (pointing to the grossest pictures): "Elly, if you keep sucking your thumb, you'll have to have these metal pieces glued to your teeth."

Elly: "Mom, that will be really pretty...see?" (pointing to the kids who had different colored elastics on their braces...halloween colors, christmas colors, pastels.)

Plan officially backfired. I should've known that to her braces are like jewelry for your teeth!

September 3, 2010

Elly Quotes: Heart Breaking Edition

Elly threw a complete fit today. Both kids had fallen asleep on the way home from the grocery store and both had woken up in really bad moods. Boy was screaming and Elly started to scream and cry because I couldn't carry them both up the stairs at the same time and I left her in the basement while I took Boy upstairs to his bed.

Over her screaming and crying, I told her that when she was all done crying I would be happy to talk to her. But, until then, she would need to stay in the basement all alone. She screamed and cried for a good 10 minutes or so. And then, I heard this through the tears...

Elly: "But Mommy, I love you, Mommy... I still love you."

And then my heart broke.

But, I did NOT go down there and get her. Sheesh, she has to learn somehow!

She did eventually stop crying (after about 15 minutes) and we had a good talk about being a big girl.

September 1, 2010

Elly Quotes

Lacy has this thing about milk.  It can't sit out for more than like 15 seconds before she drinks it.  If it sits out too long, she has to dump it and get a new glass.  Apparently, Elly has it too.  Tonight at dinner her cup of milk had been out for about 5 minutes, and she'd been drinking it off and on.

Elly:  Dad, will you please get me some clean milk?

Brandon:  Clean milk?

Elly:  Yeah, this milk is dead.

Brandon (containing my laughter):  Dead?

Elly:  Yeah, it's dead.  So I need some clean milk.

Brandon:  Well, what do you mean it's "dead"?

Elly:  Look at it.  It's just, like, been there for a long time.

Brandon:  OK.  I'll get some clean milk.

Elly:  Thanks, Dad.

Rainbow Update

We've been looking for a rainbow all week, but no luck yet.  Except that our good friends Kevin and Bree Ahlstrom read our post last week and sent this picture to Elly.  They snapped it in the car on their phone.


How awesome are they?  Thanks, Kevin and Bree!