3/31 - Eli's firsts!

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The picture above is Aiden at 6 months. Below is Eli at 6 months. They look pretty similar although Eli is chunkier. Things have been going pretty well. It's GREAT to have Brad back home.
The weather has started to turn nice. Aiden had his snack outside the other day and swept the porch afterwards. We've just been hanging out a lot lately because Ms. Michel (his daycare provider) has been closed for the last week.
Aiden and I went to Spoutonline.com the other day. He loves to see that channel (Sprout) in the morning because Thomas the Train comes on. We went online and he was trying to play games. It was too funny. He's only allowed to touch computers with mommy or daddy. We'll see how long he listens to that rule although he generally does really well.

In the video below, you can see Aiden getting into his chair for meals. He's learned to pull his stool over and get up there himself. He's pretty excited about it and acting like such a big boy.

In the picture below, you can see Eli holding a sippy cup for the 1st time. He did pretty well considering he's never even held this cup before.
We've having to give Eli prune juice lately to help clear out his system if you know what I mean. We had a guest over last night for dinner and Aiden decided to get lots of plates out. How sweet of him!

I had to go to the doctor yesterday and gets some new medicines to help me breathe. The sudafed kept me up all night and I got very little sleep. I go to an ENT in 2 weeks and my general doctor thinks I'll need to get my septum fixed. We'll see what the specialist says. Eli and Aiden did a great job at the doctor with me yesterday though.

Eli doesn't get bottles very often because I'm normally around. Aiden was holding bottles of his own starting at 6 months so I figured I'd see if Eli could do it. Aiden got lots of bottles since I went back to work so I figured Eli would be pretty far behind so when I gave him a bottle of prune juice and water, I was shocked to see that he did pretty well with it. He was pretty sloppy with the sippy cup I gave him the other day so I wasn't sure how he'd do with the bottle. He did great.

It was a big day for Eli. He also got his first mum-mum today. Once he figured out it was food, he was good to go. He got aggravated because he didn't know how to let go of the mum-mum and put it in his mouth.
Eli is a jumping manic!! Look at this little guy. He was flying high tonight in his jumping johnny. The video below the picture is great. He was getting some serious air!


Aiden was trying to help him tonight. They are so cute together and Aiden wants Eli to be able to play so bad. We had great success in taking pictures on Monday and I can't wait for 2 weeks to get them back. I'll scan them on put them on the blog. Aiden, although he had a poopy diaper, was adorable and Eli was flashing some big smiles. Too precious.

Tomorrow we have doctor appointments for the boys to check up on the ear infections. Hopefully they are going away and the boys are cleared to fly to Texas on Sunday. Stay tuned.