Lucky In Love: Eli

My 10 week old baby!

Here are some pictures we took today on a couch at my dad's office... this is actually our families old couch that we had when we lived in East Hill 1995 - 2001,... and before it was recovered it was me and my mom's couch in our little yellow house from 1991 - 1995.

I love this couch

Loving his buddy El

War Eagle!

I love his sweet profile

we took these for daddy for Father's Day!

Finally!
This week I finally ordered Eli's baby announcements,.... here they are! If you see a typo please do not tell me because I have ordered over 80! :)

Big milestone - This week Eli has been excommunicated from me and Christian's room and now sleeps at night in his big boy crib!

So I stare at this all night

Having Eli in his room by himself made me very nervous.... so we installed a security system in his room...

All the years of telling Cowboy to stop barking will pay off,... if something happens in this room, Cowboy will let me know.

Eli's 2 month check up recap:

Weight - 12 lbs 10 oz
Height 95th percentile
Weight 75th percentile
Head size 50th percentile
Dr. O'Grady said that Eli acted like a 4 month old! She was very impressed with how he could stand and hold his own weight

Asleep at the Dr.s

2 month shots, I talked Dr. O'Gradys ear off about these shots,... I was very nervous about them,... but after we talked about the pros and possible minimal cons we decided that it was the best thing for Eli to be vaccinated

Eli's shots. He was so brave. He had fallen asleep waiting for the nurse to come in. When he got the first 2 shots he whimpered, but the last one made him very upset. But he only cried for a moment. After he got the baby tylenol he was very tired the rest of the day.

Waiting for the nurse

Looking forward to this weekend - Father's Day! I am so excited for what Eli and I got Chris for Father's day! I will have to tell yall next week. But also this weekend we are going to try to go to the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival in Foley. And we are going to go to the Floral Tree Gardens and pick out some plants for our yard, this is part of Chris' Father's day gift I got this off of Groupon (which I am addicted to!) Here is the Groupon link

Special outings - Eli and I kept very busy this week... we had lunch with our Landrum buddies bidding Laurie a bon voyage for California, Eli's 2 month check-up, 4 Jazzercise classes, an eye doctor appointment and lunch at Panera with Laurie and her sweet baby girl Eleanor.

This is at the optometrist office when I found out I have an eye infection and can't wear my contacts for 1 week

Eli's new favorite toy -

He isn't quite big enough for it, I have to put blanket around him to keep him supported.

You may wonder what Eli is staring at,...

You may not be able to tell but he is staring and laughing at himself :)

My new favorite toy - I ordered this wrap from Snuggly baby off of Etsy, and Eli & I LOVE it!! CLICK HERE They have a lot of different patterns, and are super comfortable. I like that they distribute the weight evenly, and are super cute!

Wearing the glasses because of my eye infection.

Side view

I ordered some pictures when I ordered Eli's announcements, so I got to go pick out some super cute frames...

We put Eli's hospital picture up -

How is nursing going - Great!.. I got an Udder Cover and I love it. My friend Joyelle suggested them, they come in all different designs. They are perfect for nursing indiscreetly. They make me feel more comfortable with the thought of nursing in public. But I am nervous that now that I am working out more I could lose my supply. If that happens all exercise stops. Eli comes first.

Favorite day - We had so much fun with Rachel and her boo Cary,... they came over Wednesday night and we had dinner out under our vineyard,... we are calling this the romantic grotto,... then we watched The Vow

It is very romantic at night, kinda like camping though

What our schedule looks like - Our schedule looks the same as last week... Except he was doing 6-7 hour stretches at night and is now down to 5-6. Super sucks. I am blaming this on going out of town for a week and his 2 month shots. Last night he did his 6 hour stretch again, but Wednesday night he woke up at midnight and 3 AM!! He hasn't been that bad since we brought him home. So I am hoping that now that we are back home and his shots are behind us, we can get back on track with good sleeping.

Funny story that most parents have - Eli and I were laying in bed, playing our version of "airplane"... where I lift him over me then bring him in for a kiss.... well you can see where this is going... I was bringing Eli in for a big ol' kiss when he spit up all over my face. It was ridiculous, and hilarious. Here is a picture of the aftermath....