Even Closer to Crawling!

It was 18 days ago that I posted Elijah's first "all 4's" movements, and even though he didn't meet our forecast of a Christmas Day Crawl, he is definitely getting closer.  The video below was taken a night or two ago when he army crawled literally, down the hallway!  Aaron had called me on my way home from work to tell me that the boy had army crawled from one side of the room to the other and then back again, while Aaron was doing some work in the room!  I think our days of sitting back are coming to a close!

(Next post will be about his first Christmas, with lots of video and pictures. I will try to get that up tomorrow (Friday) .... Just for you, Gram!)

P.S. Sorry for our messy house...I am running out of energy chasing this kid around!

Fun Pictures from the last week

Disclaimer, I just realized I did not post this on the 12th when I had planned to!  Result? You get two posts in one day...the info is a little old, but promise still stands for the crawling, if he really starts I will put it up right away! Love Kristin (12/29/11)


Here are some pictures to hold you over until I post again....if Elijah starts REALLY crawling this week, you can bet it will be up here!

Elijah at Gymboree Class!

Disclaimer- even though you think I have the most beautiful voice in the world, that is not however my voice singing...hahaha!

UT OH! Getting Closer to Crawling!

I have been trying to capture this on film for the last two or three days.  This week Elijah started getting his legs underneath himself and is developing the logic that this will propel him forward to obtain X object of his desire.....all this to say, the notion that many have that E will be crawling by Christmas is looking more and more realistic every day.

I'm Getting More Hair!

Yes, it's true!  Elijah is getting more hair!  I pulled him out of the bath on Sunday night and saw that I could "Mohawk" his hair!  There is still not much there, but it is definitely growing.  Hopefully he will beat me in the hair race, and have a good head of locks before his third birthday! hahaha

Laughing

Here's a cute video of Elijah laughing.  There is just something about a child's laugh that warms the heart!  Enjoy!

Chomp Chomp, Chomp Chomp!

Ok we just had to share this with you.  Today we were feeding Elijah breakfast and this is what he started doing.....  Needless to say, he had us in stitches!

City Sidewalks...

This Friday was the annual Benicia downtown open house on First street.  We had such a good time walking the street and running in to all of our friends (why this is something that seems so special, I don't know, because we see these same people week in and week out!  Maybe it is just the Christmas spirit that makes it feel that much more special). Anyway, Elijah got to sit on Santa's lap in front of the Plein Aire Art Gallery.  It was so neat to see him go right for Santa and not be scared at all.   We watched multiple gets grip their mom or dad for dear life, when Elijah was all smiles!  I have included a couple of cute pictures below. 

We didn't realize how late we were out (errrr...9:30) and Elijah was tuckered to say the least.  By the time we made it to the top of First street, on our way back to the car, he was out in Aaron's arms!