Lucky In Love: Eli - 5 weeks old

While writing my blog this morning, I received an email from my best friend Anna. She sent me this amazing story, that I have to share. I watched this video with Eli on my chest sound asleep. Tears were streaming. I feel so blessed by this video. Praise the Lord for baby Christian. And I praise You, Lord, for my Eli. Please watch this video, it will bless you.

This morning baby and I had a little 5 week photo shoot, here are some of my favorite pics:

Thanks Aunt Haley for my adorable tie onesies! You are the best and we love you so much!!

This is why I do laundry every day -

Eli's Smiles - This week has been all about big gummy grins, and I LOVE IT!!! He is especially happy in the morning. That is when this video was taken:

Big milestone this week - This week we introduced the bottle! Daddy was the first one to feed him the bottle. At first Eli just looked at Christian like "what are you doing with that?" So I came and sat next to them, and Eli started chugging away. After the initial shock of food coming from someone other than mommy, he took it like a champ. We give little man a bottle of mommy's milk almost everyday.

Weight - 11 lbs (according to my bathroom scale)

Special visitors - Sunday Christian's dad came through and stayed with us on his way to a dog show, we had a great dinner at the local favorite O'zones, and Eli was a doll! On Wednesday my nanny came to visit and Eli fell in love with his great grandma, we hope she comes back soon!

Looking forward to this weekend - We have decided on what to plant in honor of our son: a blue hydrangea bush. Aren't they beautiful? SO, hopefully this weekend we can find one and be able to get it in the ground!

Looking forward to next week - On Monday my grandma and cousins Theresa and Audrey are coming into town to visit Eli, and I can't wait to see them! Audrey just finished her first year of college and Theresa just graduated from nursing school! I couldn't be prouder :)

Mixed feelings next week - For the remainder of May, I will be teaching an after school cheerleading camp Tuesday & Thursday for Foley Middle School. The camp will be from 3:30 - 6:30. And even though it is only about 4 hours (with travel time) that I will be away from Eli, I am not looking forward to it; but I am excited to coach cheerleading. I am glad that he will be with my mom and then Christian. Eli will be in good hands.

Special outings - We made it to grandma's Jazzercise class!! Monday was our first class together. I kept him in his car seat and put him in front of me while I worked out. Eli kept looking at me like, "what are you doing??" I definitely felt like he was judging me. At the Wednesday class my nanny and Amelia where there so they watched Eli for me. We also have class today, I hope it goes as good as Monday went.

Eli and mom at Jazzercise

At the end of class

Favorite day of the week - Thursday was a good day. We went to lunch with the recent college graduate Hannah (who is heading to NY for an internship) After lunch Eli and I were feeling a little daring (we finished lunch around 1:30 and Eli needed to eat again at 2:30) we headed over to Christian's work to introduce Eli to daddy's co-workers. I was so nervous Eli would be grumpy, because it was so close to when he needed to eat. But the moment Eli saw Christian his face exploded into these huge gummy grins! Eli was soo excited to see his daddy. To me his expressions said "so this is where you've been!" It was the sweetest encounter, brought hormonal tears to my eyes. We are so blessed with a sweet loving baby!

Meet my new best friend - The Pacifier! :)

This is my new babysitter - Eli LOVES to look outside! This distracts him for a good chunk of time, until he gets bored :)

Other big news - Auntie Ama-ma (Amelia) Got her permit!! Woo woo!! She is a VERY good driver,.. but no driving Eli around for awhile though! Like maybe when your 25....