Update

So Chris left today to go to drill for the weekend and I missed him the second he walked out the door. I thought for sure I'd be sick of him by now, but I just can't help but the love the guy! :-P I tell ya, it is great being married to your best friend :-) I know, mushy, mushy, yeah, yeah...

So things have been going pretty well lately. Elijah is growing like crazy. He's really starting to get taller and I can see that he's thinning out a lot while he's stretching out. It's so crazy how fast the time has gone by. When I'm holding him in my arms he feels like this huge kid, not a little baby... He's wearing size 2T shirts now. Yeah, and he's 8 months old. Granted they are a little bit big, but the 12 month shirts are too small and I don't have anything in between. What a little chunker :-)

He is sooo close to crawling, he can taste it! He gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth and he scoots backwards a lot. But to go forward, he's still stuck on the army crawl with belly on the floor, but he is getting better everyday. Of course, he's going through kind of a stinker-butt phase right now and wants me to hold him all the time, so we aren't getting too far. Today was a really rough day for him, he was just really fussy all day. I'm not sure if it was gas, teething, growing pains, or something else altogether. The kid's got some troubles. But really, I can't complain, he is such a good baby. Sure, he has his moments, but all around he's very peaceful and joyful which is a HUGE blessing for us.

I'm having a hard time getting him to eat baby food. He freaks out if I try to put a spoon anywhere near his mouth. He does love finger food, but all he really ever has is cheerios and peas. I'm not creative enough to come up with good finger foods and he isn't excited about it enough to really eat more than a few pieces. It's frustrating me a little bit because I would like to get him eating real food regularly so that it will be easy to wean him when the time comes. I do NOT want to breastfeed forever. I think breastfeeding is fantastic, but it definitely has a limit.

So that's what's new with Elijah... As for me everything is about the same. I stay home and take care of the baby of course. I'm anxious for better weather so we can start getting outside more. Yesterday it was beautiful so Chris and I brought Elijah outside and they sat in the yard while I raked - even got some blisters on my hands :-) But then today it was nasty out, but tomorrow is supposed to be nice again so maybe we will do something outside tomorrow. I am SO excited for summer to come!

So Chris is still going to school and doing the military thing. He was in the application process for the police department but he just got the "thanks, but no thanks" letter from them the other day, so that is a no-go. We were praying about it really hard, so we know now that it wasn't what God wanted for him and we are just thankful that we got an answer from them and didn't have to wait any longer without knowing. So now he is starting to think about other jobs. It's going to be difficult since he's going to school full time and he has to leave the whole month of June for sniper school. But we are just praying that God will show us where to go and what to do. He knows better than we do :-)

Yeah, that's about all for now. I need to get in bed and get some sleep since I won't have Chris to help me with the baby all weekend (yikes)... Ciao!