Football Star?

Elijah (like most babies - especially boys) loves to play with balls! Any kind of ball - big or small, bouncy or flat, basketballs, soccerballs, footballs, exercise balls. He especially likes the unpredictability of the football when bounced. It jumps all over the place and then he gets to crawl after it. Although I don't know much about football I must say that he's got great form.

Here are just a few more recent pics:

Playing in the box of his new "big boy" car seat since he has outgrown the infant car seat

We got those foam letters for the bath and Elijah loves to chew on them and stick them all over his face....oh yeah and spell words (he's a prodigy ;)

Napping well in the stroller..we love taking walks in the crisp air of FALL!!! Lovely New England, how we'll miss you.

Elijah fell asleep like this on Bruce and just about fell on the floor his body was so relaxed

He loves to make "farting" noises on windows and doors, or on your legs or arms. Now he just makes the noises with just his mouth..he's quite talented.

I just thought it was a cute shot of him eating from his big boy plate and cup.


Nothing like a smoothie to encourage him to learn how to drink from a straw! He sucked it down.


Hey babe, give me a call sometime.


None of this is great, but I felt like it was time for a post. Morgan is a much better poster for sure. Elijah turned 9 months old last week, can you believe it?

Mr In Control

Elijah is starting the age where he wants to be IN CONTROL of everything -- what he's eating and how he's eating it, what he's playing with and where he's playing with it, and on and on. To get him to stay away from certain things -- like the bookshelf which is a current favorite because he pulls all the books off -- I've said NO sternly and even squeezed his hand a bit to let him know that I'm in control. He still just laughs at me....he laughs! When he's getting his way, he's happy as a clam...otherwise, he whines. He doesn't like to be fed -- he wants to do it all himself, which makes for quite the MESS!

To a certain extent we've let him do a little more of what he wants this last week because he's been sick and pretty miserable. He had a fever to 102 degrees since Sunday, took him to the doctor on Tuesday and he said it's probably viral so nothing I can do except keep giving Tylenol and Motrin. Then Wednesday he broke out in a rash all over his face, chest and back and finally the fever is gone! Classic roseola. Now just waiting for the rash to clear and we can go back out in public and rejoin the human race.

Did your kiddos go through this stage (I'm hoping it's just a stage......right?) and how can I help him know I'm the one in control?? For now, some recent pics:






But he loooooooves being able to feed himself.




A little of this, a little of that




Thanks, mom.

And here he is getting into the bookshelf....he has that "who me?" look on his face

He flips through all the books...one day he'll know this book is upside down. For now, either way will do. **Love those squeezable cheeks!**

Crawling

Here's a quick video of Elijah crawling down the hall. He's gotten to where he doesn't like being in the living room (where we mostly hang out) and will open the door and crawl out into the hallway -- and FAST. This video captures that exit:





Our friends Matt & Pam came over today and we took some pics of Elijah and their son Gideon (3 months old). Gideon has a full head of hair with a piece in the back that always sticks up - I call him Alfalfa. Sooo cute!