The other night this is what I found in my bed when I got in it. I was wondering where the can opener went.

It's safe to say Amelia is moving. Tom put her in the middle of the quilt, and here she is… photolink
(Awesome quilt made by Erich Harbowy's mother. Thanks!!!) There's also phtos of Eli in soccer socks that he put on himself, and a few photos after going to the park on a cold day: Eli has some pretty sweet clothes on.
She's also gigglin', especially when Eli does anything goofy, which is most of the time, so we have a pretty spirited home theses days.

Today we were reading bedtime stories and I had Amelia and Eli on my lap. We were reading Caps for Sale, one of his favorites. Eli practically has the whole book memorized. As he/I read the book Amelia giggled the entire time. She thought the monkeys saying “tsk, tsk, tsk” was hilarious.

Also Eli has decided that Marching Bands are the best thing ever. He is going to be a marching band member for Halloween. We took a couple videos of him because it is so amusing.

We have been potty training for a couple weeks now and things are going well, He usually has no more then and couple accidents a day and sleeps in a diaper at night. He really doesn't like going poop in the potty, and when he does he freaks out and wants it out of his potty.

Things Eli is currently afraid of:

Tonight at dinner (of which Eli ate very little) he spilled water on his shirt and freaked out so I took the shirt off. A short while later he announced: “three belly buttons” and pointed at his nipples and belly button.

Eli has been talking up a storm lately, often quite clearly. This great improvement in speech means we have to say goodbye to some cute words.
No more canpakes (pancakes), Gammy (Grammy), or pedos (torpedos, the kind you throw in the pool).
Elijah has also decided we get to say goodbye to diapers except at naptime & overnight. That's a pretty awesome goodbye.

Well, it has been a bit over a week now and having two isn't much different then on, just more of everything.

• man do they poop A LOT when they are little. We had to get some more diaper inserts .
  
• She is sleeping well, and only getting up twice a night to nurse, one of them with a diaper change.
  
• There are some more photos uploaded. Click the photos link above.
  
• Being off has been nice.

Yesterday I told Eli something that has probably never before been uttered to any child: “you have to eat some more pizza before you can have more broccoli.” That was last night.

Tonight after dinner he snuck in to the kitchen and crawled on a chair to get a fresh, uncooked green bean that was left over from dinner.

So we try to eat pretty healthy, and we also try to feed our kids the same way. Eli refuses to eat Kraft Singles and other faux cheese. He prefers actual cheese. Apparently this has paid off.

Born July 5th 2008 5:45 am
7lbs 13oz
21″ log

So the plan was a homebirth, active labor started about 8pm on the 4th. After a while pushing the C-Section scar started really hurting and the decision was made that we might be close to a uterine rupture (sounds as bad as it is) so to play it safe we transfered to St. Joes around 4:30am. Baby and Mom looked like they were doing fine so she went ahead and kept pushing and the baby was born at 5:45. They are coming home today. Eli is excited to be a big brother.

Some photos are here.

After his grandmother got him some bear paw mittens he learned that he should growl like a bear when wearing gloves/mittens. Here is a video of him wearing my ski mittens.