Changes Ahead

I think a lot of my family and friends in town already know, but I thought I'd do a bit of an update on the blog as well. As of June 3rd I will be a stay at home mom - mostly. When I was still pregnant Dan and I talked a lot about what to do for childcare for Elliott. As I'm sure most people know, daycare is very expensive. We were lucky enough to get Elliott into a great daycare that is amazingly close to our house (1 minute walk) two days a week. I was able to work 4 days a week. my mom and my sister, Sarah, were good enough to help care for Elliott on the other days. But...that wasn't really a long term plan. So, a week ago I talked to my manager and put in my notice - I also gave a one month warning for them. Well, they countered back asking if I was able to work about 10 hours a week...from home!! This is perfect for us as I was going to try to do a bit of part time work during the summer anyways.

I'm excited about being able to stay with Elliott full time. It's hard being away from him during the day. I usually leave home at 7am and he's still sleeping. So I usually only get 4 hours with him in the evening. I am a little nervous about not working. What will I do to fill up all that time? (I'll probably look back at that comment and laugh sometime soon) Hopefully Dan isn't going to be driven crazy by us both being at home all the time.

My last few weeks at work I'm suppose to be writing work instructions for everything that I do. I'm blogging to keep my mind going, work instructions can be very boring to write! I should get back to it though. I'll get another post on here in the next day or two of Elliott.

~Wendy

Six Month Old Monkey

Elliott had his six month check up this afternoon. He's weighing in at a hefty 18 lbs, 4.5 oz. Amazingly that's only 70% for babies. What do the other 30% look like? Also, amazingly, when I was a year old I was 19 lbs! E is also 28" long, 90%. Guess that means he's getting his height from Dan and not from me.

We had a pretty busy April and May looks to be the same. This past Saturday we took Elliott to the Portland Timber's soccer game. It's a minor league soccer team, but Portland is hoping to push through getting an MSL team by 2011. With my horrible luck, we are now all sick. :( Hopefully it's just a quick cold and we'll be better soon.

Here are some recent pictures of Elliott as he practices to sit and crawl around the house. Also, some from our trip to the beach last month.









This one doesn't even look like him to me:

Elliott - 5 months+ video

This one includes his first so-called solid meal and some good laughs.

So Cute!

Easter and More

Playing outside.



My favorite toy.


Learning to sit.


Grandma and Grandpa on Easter


Posing


Smiling


Josh, Grace and Brooke


My "little" cousin Caleb




Brooke and Grace


Brooke


Hanging out with Caleb

More pictures

My Aunt Victoria, who also has a blog, took some pictures of Elliott while she was in town. I'll try and put together a video soon too:

Rice, Tulips & 5 Months!!

I apologize for the big break in blogging. Things just seem to be busy around here. Elliott just turned 5 months old on Friday. I weighed him on Wii Fit today and it calculated him at 17.7 lbs...at 5 months!! Recently Dan and I have noticed that Elliott is very interested in everything we eat. He'll grab for our plates and glasses any chance he gets. We decided maybe it was time to try feeding him rice cereal. The first time wasn't very successful, he couldn't decide if he liked it or not. One bite would go in and he'd appear happy. The next would be spit out after one second. I tried it again last night and he seemed to like it a bit more. Maybe he didn't like the big spoon I had to use the first time - I have since purchased smaller, softer spoons for his eating pleasure.



Dan's Aunt Victoria is visiting from the DC area for a long weekend. Yesterday we went to the Tulip Farm with her and Dan's parents. Unfortunately, hardly any tulips were in bloom :( I guess the farm is suppose to be quite amazing when everything is blooming.




Elliott dancing on a windmill:


Finally, here are a few recent pics of Elliott that I thought were cute.


This is Elliott lying on the floor, he turned himself so he could just barely see the TV. It was right before heading off to bed and he just calmly lay there, watching TV and zoning out. (Dan is a no TV dad, so whenever E is able to, he tires really hard to watch it)