Brought A Tear To My Eye

I have always had a few favorite pictures of me with my parents as a baby. One such picture is one my mom took of me sitting on my dad's lap watching sports together. I have always loved this picture, because it's me spending time with my dad doing the exact same thing. Well yesterday I took a very short nap and when I woke up I went downstairs to find Nate and Elyse watching basketball in the exact same position. (I am not a fan of having Elyse watch television, but I was totally okay with it at this point). Therefore, I grabbed the camera to quickly take a picture. After putting it away my only reaction besides telling Nate the meaning behind the picture was to praise God!

King of the Jungle

Elyse has this Leap Frog mirror that makes animal noises. For the past few weeks Nate would push the lion a lot and then he would make a roaring sound afterwards to Elyse. She has recently begun making her own lion roar back.

First roar is her roar of a lion, second is her roar of a lion cub.

Love This Weather

Since last Saturday the weather has been beautiful. Sunny everyday and averaging around 50 degrees. In fact, Monday hit 68. Well since it's been so nice, Nate, Elyse and I have taken advantage of being outside as much as possible. We have gone for many walks around our neighborhood as well as walked one of our favorite places in the cities, Lake Calhoun. Overall, it's been very enjoyable; especially because Elyse tends to talk quite a bit while walking, plus we love seeing her in her shades.

Successful Foods

For the past week, Nate and I have had Elyse try sweet potatoes, carrots and bananas. We filmed it, but nothing exciting happened, plus it was kind of blurry. She hesitates at first, but after a few bites takes it great. In fact, she usually finishes the entire container. Also, I thought she'd love the bananas, but she appears to like them the least of the three. I guess they are just my favorite. Still we were very proud of her for eating her fruit and vegetables.

Full and happy because she just got done eating all her carrots.
After eating she gets a yummy teething cracker while Nate and I eat.

Visit From Aunt Jan

My Aunt Jan from Nebraska decided she wanted to celebrate her birthday here this past weekend hanging out with my mom. They did what all women enjoy doing, shopping, going out to eat, talking and spending time with Elyse. Nate, Elyse and I loved having them here for the day. Elyse loved it the most; because she loves seeing Grams, plus she tends to get spoiled A LOT whenever she comes, and now she had two Grams come. Overall it was a great day! Thanks for coming to visit us Aunt Jan.

6 Month Pictures

Nate turned our basement into a studio to take Elyse 6 month pictures. Here are just a few. I believe they all turned out great though.

More Peas Elyse? No Thanks!

Now that Elyse is 6 months she can start eating flavored baby food. We were told it's better to start with vegetables or babies may not eat them after fruits because fruits are so sweet. So we tried sweet peas (couldn't be that bad it had sweet in the name). Anyway, as you can see from the video, it was not a success. After trying a few bites we soon switched back to cereal. We will continue to try other flavors until she finds one she enjoys.