Congratulations to Linzy and Ian! We found out today that Elliot’s first first cousin is going to be a girl!
Elliot and Hunter thought Linzy would have a boy…
Also, Elliot and Hunter took a quick nap on the way to Gatlinburg.
Elliot got to play with some ba-oons
We took Elliot to visit Gam Gam’s family in Greenfield, OH for Memorial Day Weekend. We left Saturday morning with Gam Gam and Slappy. We took the 5 hour drive and stretched it to nine, making stops at McDonald’s with an awesome playplace and a diner in Ripley. Elliot got a tiny “translucent” pie. We got to Pappy and Juanita’s shortly before Lisa and her kids. Pappy and Juanita showed us their swinging area and we had a cook-out with burgers.
Here are Pappy and Eliot playing “Ba!”
We went for and after dinner walk and Elliot rode in his stroller, in a wagon, on people’s heads, and walked.
Elliot helped some…
We shouted “1, 2, 3, Go!” and lifted him off the ground or spun around and shouted. Eventually, Elliot was saying “2, Go!” Later, we put Elliot to bed and I kicked some booty at Monopoly!
The next day, Elliot and I had some Cheerios.
After a mid morning nap, Lisa fixed Elliot’s hair and Pappy tried to teach Elliot ow to whistle with his hands.
Then we headed over to Aunt Kelly’s for a cook out and pool party!
Here is Elliot saying “2… Go!” for the camera!
We went back to Pappy’s and played more croquet. Elliot went on a car ride to look at some tents with Gam Gam, Slappy, et. al. Logan and I followed with Patrick and Heather to see a very large campground with at least one round permanent tent.
We left early the next day and stopped at the original KFC in Corbin Kentucky for lunch.
Elliot got his seventh tooth today, which goes a long way to explain some fussiness over the past few days! He will let you say it if you smile really big at him and say “Cheese!”
Elliot has gotten to spend a lot of time with his Aunt Lisa and Cousins Hunter and Kyra recently.
(We are having a debate about whether or not his outfit is, in fact, pajamas.)
He got to go to field day last week,
Hunter’s award’s day Monday,
and to Kyra’s class party yesterday!
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Recently, Elliot likes Thomas the Tank Engine and Cars, the Pixar movie. He has switched from saying “Good” to “Go Go!” He will also say “Choo Choo!”
Here he is watching TV in his new nap mat!
Last Friday we surprised Gingy! Tom was going to meet her in Crossville, so Logan, Elliot, and I tagged along too! She was so excited! We all went to Cracker Barrel to eat and play around the gift shop.
On Saturday, Elliot, Logan, and I went out for Hibachi. Elliot tried sushi and, with his mommy holding his shoulder, he didn’t even cry when the chef made a big fire!
On Sunday we went to a cook-out at Logan’s parent’s house. Elliot’s Gam Gam and Slappy got him a new slide! So exciting! We are looking forward to staying at their new Camp Ground soon!
On Mother’s Day, we went to the Apple Barn restaurant with Logan’s family. Lisa took this picture of us eating some delicious apple pie ice cream! Yummy!
I got a bead on my bracelet for Elliot’s birthday (a dump truck, his favorite present) and Logan and I ordered a few more beads for holidays that we had missed (a tooth, for Christmas, and a stethoscope, for Valentine’s Day). I also had these made for me, Gam Gam, and Gingy.
My mother had silhouettes made of me and my brothers when we were babies. I contacted the same artist and she made his likeness from the above picture. Outstanding!
I apologize for the lack of posting. Things have started to finally settle down into a routine. Elliot only wakes up in the middle of the night maybe once or twice a week now. I’m still working a lot, but things are generally going well. It’s starting to make me think that a second baby might actually be doable (but not quite yet 😉 ).
Anyways, I am working tonight (Friday night) due to some weird stipulations in the resident work hours. So, I got Friday during the day off. Logan had court, and I got to spend the whole day caring for Elliot more or less alone. This is a surprisingly rare occurrence, and I was pretty excited to treat the boy to an outing with his dear old mum.
We kissed daddy goodbye in the morning, got breakfast and a bath. We set out for the Fort Sanders area. Logan called while we were on the road and told us his aunt was in the hospital, so we made a brief stop to check on her.
Then we went to Fort Kid!
Elliot climbed around the playground. He especially liked the slide. An elementary class was having their field trip there and Elliot enjoyed watching them.
Then we wandered over to World’s Fair Park to play in the fountain. I had brought Elliot a swim diaper and a change of clothes. What I had not brought was a change of clothes for me!
We stopped by the Sunsphere, where I learned that Elliot is a bit terrified by heights. He did not want to stand near the edge of the overlook by himself at all!
We found this structure in front of the convention center.
We stopped by the Chocolate factory on our way back to the car and got some cheesecake bites, which Elliot liked. We drove towards home but stopped at Wash Me Coin Laundry when we saw Slappy’s truck. Slappy joined us for some Mexican food! Then Elliot and I stopped off at Walmart to get my car worked on and pick up a few things. Elliot liked puching the cart and playing with the balls.
We got home at 2 and both went down for a nap for a couple of hours. All in all, a successful mother/son day!