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my parents house to open gifts with my family eli got an activity table books a drum complete with shakers a maraca and tambourine a teething blanket stuffed christmas dog bowls and spatula easily his favorite gift a baby einstein classical music toy that lights up while it plays a farm rattle that plays different animal sounds and teaches colors and a lot of clothes this boy is most definitely spoiled eli with his farm rattle his favorite a bowl and spatula playing with his tambourine the next day we actually ended up getting snowed in the next day so we stuck around for an extra day and played video games and basically didn t change out of our pajamas for the entire day it was good to just rest for a bit i think that sums up our main christmas festivities this year it was a fun one stef posted by stef at 11 37 00 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas wednesday january 2 2013 happy new year i really need to be more diligent about updating this blog i m a pro at instagram now though eli changes more and more each day and his little personality is really starting to shine through he cracks us up on a daily basis and i think he thinks he is pretty darn funny too some of his favorite things to do right now as a 10 month old are eli taking ornaments off the christmas tree crawl everywhere get into everything i have to watch this kid like a hawk now because he has gotten super quick and manages to get into things i didn t even realize were within his reach he is now tall enough to reach the end tables which was my default place to put things out of his reach and i swear he has the longest arms ever that and he is a master at standing on his tippy toes in order to reach as far as he can this one is blurry but here is eli attacking jon one morning climbing he has been climbing up the pillows and our headboard for a couple of months now but he is getting pretty adept at it one of his favorite things to climb is his dad every morning jon gets woken up to eli crawling on top of his head i just have to sit back and laugh however with his love of climbing i now have to watch him in the bathroom because he thinks it s great fun to climb into the bathtub except he goes in headfirst and hits his head on the bottom yeah that happened we read a lot of christmas books this year reading he will sit and read books for a long time which is super surprising considering that his attention span is about 5 minutes long for most activities we are constantly going to the library to check out new books strumming along with dad music he will stop whatever he is doing if he hears a song start playing on the computer or tv he also has some new toys that will encourage this love of his eli in his new seal tub baths he gets super excited and bounces up and down and tries to crawl into the bathtub as the water warms up we have resorted to leaving his diaper on until just before we put him in because he would pee on the tub and bath mat every time because he got so excited he is going to love that i publicly proclaimed that when he s 14 he also loves splashing as much as he can and gnawing on his various bath toys sticking his tongue out and making the pfffttt sound he will do it all day long and if he hears the sound or a sound that is similar he will immediately do it it s super cute until he is spitting all over my face with food in his mouth sitting on the floor and scooting in a circle i m not sure why he does this but my guess is that he wants to see everything happening around him and that s the easiest way for him to do it if we re on the couch eli is pulling up right beside us and making this new face of his pulling up on everything he started pulling up just before he turned 7 months old and has not stopped most of the time i am trying to cook or wash the dishes with a baby attached to my leg banging his toys on hard surfaces such as the coffee table and hardwood floors and he doesn t find nice soft toys to bang he finds the heaviest toys he can find and then bangs them as hard as he can on the table i always tell jon that s it s a good thing we don t have nice furniture because kids will ruin everything you own peek a boo we usually play with the comforter on the bed but lately i have been playing it with him in the living room as we chase each other around the couch and a side note crawling on hardwood floors hurts i have no idea how he does it all day long eli has started to play himself it he has a blanket he will pull it up over his face and then wait for us to say where s eli before he pulls it back down super cute i m sure there are other things i will think of later but here s the list for now my goal is to update this blog at least 3 times a week so uh let s see how well i do at that stef posted by stef at 9 06 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 22 2012 6 months our little boy is already 6 months old he has changed so much and is learning new things every single day in the past few months he has learned to roll over to sit up on his own and has started to figure out the basic mechanics of crawling he s not quite there yet with crawling but practices every day he has been able to army crawl a little bit both forward and backward and will sometimes be in a different place than the one we left him in when we come back into the room he has been getting up on his hands and knees more and more lately and i think it s only a matter of time before he figures out how to coordinate his movements into true crawling he has learned how to make the m sound and just yesterday learned the b sound while he plays he will sit and say bzzz over and over which eventually turns into him blowing raspberries and spitting all over the place and us he is getting his first tooth as well yesterday i noticed a little slit in his gum then the white part of a tooth by the end of the day this morning i felt the jagged edge of a tooth making its way up so many firsts already and so many firsts still yet to come we love this little boy more than anything and we are so excited to watch him continue to grow posted by jon stef at 2 05 00 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 21 2012 payback i was a handful as a child i know it s hard to imagine right my mom told me i was going to get paid back one day that day has arrived my child is kind of a handful but i love him this face looks so sweet and innocent right let s talk about some of his antics lately 1 eli isn t crawling quite yet but he is well on his way he can at least scoot himself to where he wants to be which is usually to a place where he can get into things those things then usually end up in his mouth like pages i have ripped out of magazines for future use he is so close to staying on his hands and knees so i know it will just be a matter of time before i am chasing him all over the place today i walked out of the kitchen and found him reaching for the remote i accidentally left on the floor apparently there weren t enough options within the plethora of toys surrounding him 2 i usually put eli in his bouncer seat in the bathroom while i shower i periodically peek out to make sure all is well today i peek out and eli is trying to crawl out of his seat he was leaning completely out of the seat his hands were on the floor his butt was in the air and his legs had worked their way out of the straps i honestly don t even know how he got himself into that position i only wish i had a camera right beside me to snap a quick picture but i was trying to quickly towel off so i could grab him before he face planted into the floor so it looks like the bouncer will need to be retired i can only imagine what other stories i will have to share as he continues to grow and develop posted by jon stef at 3 49 00 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 20 2012 why i might be considered a crunchy mama there has been a lot of talk about attachment parenting and parents being crunchy i guess i might fall into those categories a little bit and i m totally fine with that i want to preface this post by stating that these are our family s preferences and i know every family differs if someone chooses to do things differently from us i am not going to judge them these are all things that work for our family i cloth diaper we decided before eli was born that we wanted to cloth diaper to a save money on buying disposables and b send less diapers to a landfill where they will stay for 500 years plus cloth diapers are just too cute i love putting eli into cloth diapers because i know they are soft against his skin and don t contain any of the chemicals that are used to make disposable diapers i breastfeed again before eli was born we decided that we wanted our child to be breastfed for many reasons breast milk has the best combination of nutrients and antibodies for my baby it is easier for my baby to digest and it helps protect against disease breast milk is free yes i did have to buy a few nursing bras and a manual pump which was actually a gift but in the long run it is cheaper than buying formula breastfeeding is convenient i can feed my baby whenever he gets hungry and not have to mess around with a bottle this is especially convenient in the middle of the night also i am comfortable nursing him in public with a cover so it doesn t bother me when we are out and about and he gets hungry plus breastfeeding is good for my health too because it helps protect against certain cancers and diabetes i babywear i love putting eli into one of the carriers i own when we are out somewhere or just around the house it is so much easier to put him into a carrier than mess around with our stroller i like our stroller and am glad we have it because we do use it when we take family walks to the park and i intend to jog with it when eli gets a little older but it can be bulky in certain places for example i go to our local farmer s market on saturdays and i see how hard it is to push a stroller on the busy sidewalks it s also easier to just put him into a carrier when i run errands rather than carting his car seat in and out eli also likes being close to me even when i am doing everyday things around the house he is usually in my ring sling while i cook dinner he also is in a stage where he loves to look around and take everything in with him strapped to me he is in the center of what is going on those are the three main things i do as a mother that some would consider crunchy i m not really sure why but so be it i also try to be eco friendly at home too i use cleaning products that don t contain chemicals for the most part use cfl lightbulbs in all of our lamps use a low flow showerhead and use an energy efficient washer and dryer i also am trying to buy locally more often and purchase meat and produce at the local farmer s market the one thing i really miss is recycling recycling was free in ashland and they picked it up from our curb we have to to pay for it now in columbus if we want it picked up or take it to a recycling bin ourselves i might try to start taking it myself again but it became cumbersome after awhile so tell me what do you do that is considered to be crunchy posted by jon stef at 12 28 00 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 15 2012 for anyone who has ever asked a stay at home mom so what do you do all day i ll tell you what i do all day i work hard anyone who thinks that stay at home moms have it easy is either a not a stay at home parent or b has never had children yes i understand that i do all of the same household chores as those that have full time jobs but i also have a baby at home all day with me a baby who needs fed entertained changed and loved one might think i am online all day long but a laptop is a glorious thing to have with a nursing baby who likes to eat a lot or who sometimes does not like to nap unless he is on his mama i no longer have an entire saturday to clean our apartment it gets somewhat clean throughout the week during nap time that is if eli is napping in his swing otherwise i am browsing pinterest hey it happens there are some tasks that get put off sometimes indefinitely i will probably regret this the next time someone decides to just drop on by however there are a few key chores that need to be accomplished on a daily to weekly basis the ones i would like to address today are the dishes cooking the laundry and cleaning off the dining room and coffee tables we still have to eat and i m not one to use paper plates so the dishes pile up every single day a former task of unloading and re loading the dishwasher that used to take 5 minutes can now take 15 minutes while i keep an eye on eli while he s playing on his activity mat was that a cry or a happy squeal i m the one who has to check it out meals take much longer to prepare when wearing a baby who doesn t want to sit in his bouncer or who decides to get hungry half way through chopping veggies for a stir fry sometimes it s a miracle that i even get dinner finished at all the laundry oh the laundry eli definitely gives our washer and dryer a work out babies create a lot of laundry for one tiny person between diaper leakages and spit up he can easily go through a few outfits a day throw in the cloth diaper laundry and i am easily doing 3 loads of just his laundry per week i ve been known to wear my jeans probably a bit longer than intended since our laundry can get put on the back burner sacrifices people no matter how hard i try it is almost impossible to keep the dining and coffee tables completely cleared off the dining table is where we put the car seat diaper bag mail and all the other random items that go in and out of the apartment on a daily basis i have tried to stop this i have but it s just too convenient when it s the closest thing to the door the coffee table is usually stacked with board books and rattles that entertain eli throughout the day not to mention my ever present glass of water a plate with a half eaten sandwich on it and assignments for a class i am finishing to renew my teaching license and oh yeah my camera to capture all of the cuteness that happens around here on a daily basis since this post has turned rather long and i have yet to tell you the rest of how days are spent as a sahm there will be a part 2 sometime soon you know when i get a free minute since this post has a lot of words in it here is a cute picture for you someone has found his hands oh and before anyone jumps all over me about having a full time job plus having to do all of these things with children i know i am just writing this from where i am in life right now and my experience i am by no means telling anyone that i have it much harder than anyone else i am jus...