He just makes us laugh...

Elijah this morning...

Are these not the cutes pj's!?! They are Incredibles. I can't remember who they came from, Amy or Kris, but they're great.



Elijah was carrying around another shirt and wanted it tied on like a cape! Now he's a real superhero!!

He has been in a very descructive mood lately. Anytime he sees something he can "mess up" he does.

"Vroom vroom!"

Okay, now this is funny (at least it was to us). Beau let Elijah play outside this morning while he helped me cook for Women's Retreat. We didn't want a repeat of yesterday so he left Max's water bowl empty and then put his food bowl up on the grill. After a while we didn't hear anything (remember how that's a bad sign) and looked outside. Elijah had figured out that he could climb up on the window seal and reach the food on the grill. We still don't know how he did it exactly, but I'm telling you, this kid is not dumb!!


I leave in a few hours for Women's Retreat. I'm really excited, we always have a blast. However, this will be my first night away from Ligy for the whole night. I'm not thrilled about it! I told Beau ahead of time that I'm going to call A LOT and ask A LOT of questions and he can't get frustrated with me because its just my way of dealing. It will be hard because I am the one who puts Elijah to bed about 95% of the time, so I will miss that. Beau just laughed.

Having fun in the backyard

Elijah and I went shopping for Women's Retreat at Sam's this morning. By the time we got home a few hours later (we did more than just Sam's) Elijah was getting pretty fed up with sitting in a cars seat/shopping cart. So, when we got home I decided to try out the whole "let Elijah play in the backyard while I cook" scenario now that Sydney's gone. At first he just played on the porch, then I couldn't hear him anymore and looked out the window. He was off exploring one of the holes Sydney dug.

I guess that big, muddy rock didn't taste too good.

Elijah spilled Max's water bowl all over the porch. When Max came over and took a drink I guess Elijah thought he would try it out. Yep that's right...that's Elijah trying to drink water off the porch.

After that I decided to try and spare Elijah's nice clothes so I stripped him down. So...Aimee, you think you're ready for a boy? Katy....you sure you want to hope for a boy? Ha!! They're the greatest!!

Elijah's New Trick

This is what Elijah did this morning. I normally would have made him get down, but it was so cute, he was so proud of himself.

Yes that is a pen in his hand, yes I'm a horrible mother. I take them away from him, but he always finds something to hold in his hands at all times. Its hard because now he can reach things on the kitchen counter and the table in the study....everything. It's crazy. Beau or I will put something up "out of reach" and a few mins later Elijah will walk up with it. We are always shocked at what he can reach. Oh and yes, it's 10:30 and we're still in our pj's. Mommy's days off are fun!! Pj's till noon!!! When Beau is about to be home for lunch we run and get dressed so he doesn't make fun of us!

Sunday Church Shower

Sunday was Aimee's church shower. I got put in charge of this shower so we did things a bit different from the normal "traditional" church showers. Not that I have anything against church showers, but its very hard on a very pregnant woman to sit in an uncomfortable chair for 2 hours opening presents. The guests can't mingle because you're supposed to be watching and no one really has much fun. Its great because you get amazing gifts, but I wanted Aimee to get amazing gifts and her and all the guests really enjoy themselves.

I stayed after church was over to set up with the other ladies since we couldn't do it Saturday. Beau was really sweet and went to get us lunch. After we all ate he took Elijah home for a nap.

Elijah thought he was so clever hiding from Beau behind the planter when Beau was trying to take him home.

We sat up the trellis and hung all the little boy clothes on it as a backdrop. There aren't many clothes b/c these pics were taken before the guests arrived. By the end of the shower it was full of clothes. Everyone brought their gifts unwrapped. We did that for two reasons: 1) Aimee doesn't like attention and loved the idea of not having to sit in front of a room full of people to open gifts 2) it saved time so we were able to play games and visit. It turned out to be a really cute backdrop and everyone loved walking around looking at all the gifts.

Instead of the traditional cake we had Aimee's favorite: Brownies and Ice Cream. We had 6 different kinds of brownies (peanut butter, classic fudgy, creme de menthe, raspberry, rocky road, and cheesecake) It was a huge hit. No one could decide what kind they wanted so you saw all these women walking around with a plate full of brownies.

This is a picture of the center table, it had the diaper cake I made for Aimee, the game prizes, the hostess gift (car seat) and the "guest book". It was a photo album and every guest wrote their name, what gift they brought and some advice for the new parents on a card that we put in the book. It was a hit.

I loved the cake topper. I found it all Walmart with all the Easter stuff. I love ducks and loved the way he was all sprawled out. If you squeeze him he quacks. I hope Grant loves him as much as Elijah and I did.

Melissa won one of the games - a blindfolded diaper race. We laughed and said she should have been disqualified. She was the last one to have a baby - Maddie is about 9 months and so everyone thought she has too much middle-of-the-night diaper changing experience (in the dark).

All the hostesses. I don't know why, but I look really tall. I guess I shouldn't stand between Cathy and Aimee unless I want to look really tall! Ha!

Self portrait! I don't know why we didn't take a real portrait. Oh well. We had a great time!

Suzie's Tea Room Shower

Saturday we (me, Aimee, Jan and Bibby) drove to Tomball for a shower that Aimee's mom thru at a Tea Room. We had a good time and took these two pics:

Ding, Dong, Sydney's Gone...

An Ode to Sydney:
Sydney was a beautiful dog, she was incredibly smart and loving. However, all the brain and beauty she possessed could not make up for the destruction she caused. We joked about one of the rather large holes she dug in the back yard and called it "Beau's Grave". Though Beau loved her she caused too much stress. I think now her life will be better off. She has left us to go to a new family with a much bigger yard. She will be getting "married" soon and hopefully be a mother. We hope that she will have a better life than we could give her. We do have big plans now, though. Beau cannot bring himself to part with Max (but he is a really good dog so its okay). We plan to totally redo the backyard to have a place to be together as a family and to have a place for Elijah to play. We will miss Sydney, but not a lot! :)

Stay tuned. I've had a busy weekend with all of Aimee's showers and will try to post tonight or tomorrow about them. Off to church.

One Great Night!!

Well, Beau and I got to go on our date Friday night! It was wonderful. We got dressed (and I will say we looked good) and went to Perry's Steakhouse. I had been joking all week that I was going to get steak and lobster and I ended up really getting steak and lobster + shrimp!!! It was great! It was a huge kabob of fillet mignon, lobster tail and huge shrimp. It came with some great mashed pots and veggies. Beau got pecan crusted fish. Wow, we spent WAY too much money, but had such a good time. I wish I would have taken my camera - I would have been totally innapropriate and taken pictures of our food.

Then we went and saw a movie. The last time we saw a movie in the theatre together was Madagascar 3 years ago! I know what you're thinking....no Elijah yet.....why Madagascar? Well there was nothing showing and we had to kill 2 hours before something (I don't remember) Anyway, that was ridiculously expensive - $9 a ticket!!! We saw the Bucket List - it was really good.

After the movie we got gelato from Piccomolo (Italian ice cream) So Good!!! We came home to relieve Gary and Aimee - they said they had a good time ( I need to confirm that with Elijah). It was so cute though. All day before they came Elijah would look at Aimee's picture and say "Maimee" then when she finally got here he was SO excited. Beau got me flowers and my favorite kind of muffins ( I ask for them all the time). The bakery said they didn't have any and he asked them if they would make some just for me. Mmmmm fresh muffins! He's so sweet!