Typical

Typical scenes at our place:

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Eli watching his sister.

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Eli with a teething ring. (No teeth in sight.)

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Eli distracted by the camera - eyebrows up in anticipation.

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Eli watching his sister.  (Again.)

Nora busy with puzzles (or legos or ballet dancing or imaginary friends).

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 Eli distracted by the camera - eyebrows up in anticipation.  (Again.)

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Eli with a teething ring. (No teeth in sight.)  (Again.)

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 Nora with a precocious precious grin. 

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Rub-a-dub-dub.  Two babes in a tub!

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But my favorite typical scene these days??

Story time.

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xoxo

We love Dad

Happy Father's Day!  You are one amazing Dad!

And, in case the cake wasn't clear enough... We love you!!

Five Months!

And now, somehow, Eli is five months old.

I was chatting with my dad on the phone tonight and he wisely pointed out how terribly slowly those first five months of pregnancy seem to crawl along (waiting to get over the morning sickness and tiredness, waiting to have a bit of a bump to show off, waiting to feel those first kicks, etc.) but the first five months of a baby's life simply flies by.  It rang so very true.  I often find myself wishing I could just pause life to give us enough time and space to soak in every detail of our precious children.

Dear Eli,

Please slow down little man.  You're growing too fast.

Love,

Momma

More from the Edsall clan

We have, of course, taken many more pictures (and videos) of Eli and Nora than we have posted. Here is a selection of some of the ones I love…the pictures and the kids.

Nora as a "mean" tiger.

In case you were wondering, this is a sassy three-year-old.

Our curious boy.

Nora loves to climb up me and flip over.

We got Nora her own guitar…also she's not wearing pants.

Nora loves her brother…

…really, she does love him.

See.

You know you want to visit.

Four Months!

Today our growing boy is four months old.  

See, I told you.

He's getting louder and stronger and is producing incredible amounts of drool.   

He is becoming more and more interested in what Nora is up to. 

He still loves to sleep (about 19 hours a day).

And his smile still melts our hearts.

Three Months!

Our handsome boy continues to delight all who meet him.

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Eli loves to smile and laugh and chat but you'll just have to take our word for it.  He refused to humor us with a grin during this 5 minute photo shoot.  Oh well, at least he's still cute when he's being contemplative.

(*sharing secrets already*)

Happy Easter to all!

 And happy 3 months Eli!

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Two Months!

Can it be?  2 months already?!

This second month has been so much fun.  We are getting glimpses of what's to come! 

Eli is an easy-going dude.  This is the Eli we enjoy most often: alert, calm, bright-eyed.

 

He is enjoying more and more awake time (usually during daylight hours - which is nice) and is beginning to really interact with us.  He's finding he can ask for things by giving a little shout to let us know he needs something (he still doesn't cry much).  Usually he just wants to eat or be put to bed but these last few weeks he will sometimes just want to chat and will babble back and forth with us for several minutes, often exchanging smiles too!

But, he does know how to cry...

...it just doesn't tend to last very long.

Nora is really ready to play with him... 

   

we try, but he's not quite ready to keep up with big sis just yet.

So she settles for holding him on the sofa.  

And if we happen to have the camera out, she practices all her faces for us... move over Zoolander.

Today when I told Nora that it was time to take Eli's 2-month pictures on his quilt, she informed me that she needed her picture taken on her quilt too.   

I couldn't agree more.