Holiday Cheer from Nate

Nate loves to sing with us! Here is some holiday cheer from our resident cherub!

Eli's 3 year old stat's

Eli finally had his big 3 year check up, and it was quite an adventure. We got to check hearing, vision, and blood pressure in addition to all the usual height and weight measurements. He loved it! Totally fascinated by the blood pressure cuff, and headphones for the ear test. Of course Eli is perfect! His weight is hard to pin down right now because our poor little guy has been sick for 4 weeks now! But on the 17th he weighed 39.5 pounds (thats off the charts for weight) and they measured at 40 inches which is not quite accurate (he was looking down), I measured him at home and got 40.5 inches which puts him up and over the 95th percentile! It is crazy what a long, lean guy he has become (despite the 99th percentile weight). 

At three years old, Eli is still that sweet little boy we fell in love with at birth! He has the soul of a poet and a dreamer! He loves to tell us stories, jokes, and make up adventures! His vocabulary and speech is that of a 30 year old and he loves learning! He has a strong stubborn streak and a huge heart (compliments of mommy and daddy). We love this little guy!

Little Monsters

While I was making dinner last night I heard the boys giggling in the living room. Now this can either make your heart smile with the sweetness of brothers playing or your hair turn grey with the n0-good antics they are up too. This time it was a huge heart smile! They were playing little monsters and running around like wild-men! After I recorded their antics I played with them!

Dinosaur Birthday Party Day!!!

Stegosaurus Nate (sporting a stegosaurus scale hat)
Stegosaurus Eli! He was ferocious!!!
Spike the Dinosaur Birthday cake! 
Digging for dinosaur fossils with friends!
Eli loved when all of his friends (and their parents too) sang him "Happy Birthday"

Make a wish baby boy!
YEAH!!!! That is one happy little boy!

Eli had a fantastic birthday party today! He was so happy to play with friends, and discover new fun things about dinosaurs! We had Eli's birthday party at the Nature Center where Eli and I do a "Kneehigh Naturalist" class on Wednesday mornings. We picked a dinosaur theme party as our big boy is a dinosaur lover extraordinaire!!! The teacher miss Erica had a ton of fun things planned: They got to stomp like dino's and learn how big dino feet are (they all had their feet traced on a dino footprint), they got to make their own dino fossils with clay, and they got to pretend to be stegosaurus's with awesome paper plate stegosaurus scales! They even got to do the dinosaur hockey pokey! So much fun! 

We had pizza and fruit salad for lunch and dino cake and ice cream to celebrate with! 

We had 6 three year olds, 3 Twenty-month old, and 1 tiny baby (3 month old) plus all of the parents! We had two extra-special visitors: My Aunt Valmere and Uncle Wyn! Having them celebrate Eli's birthday with us was such a treat! 

Eli LOVED when everyone sang happy birthday to him! He also got his stegosaurus costume first and got to show off his dino moves! Happy Birthday Big Boy!

P.S Little brother Nate loved everything too... when he stopped moving long enough to take part! The longest period of time Nate was in one place was during lunch! Ha!