Weekend in MN

I think it's about time I write a new post, so here goes...

Life is basically back to normal with our little family. Sometimes it's almost as if nothing ever happened (except for the fact that our entire world was rocked to its core only a few weeks ago...). Elijah has completely recovered, and then some! He is better at walking, starting to even run a little bit, but he mostly just gets too excited and falls on his face... He is talking more, maybe not saying anything we can understand, but he knows what he's talking about and that's all that really matters to him at this point :-P He can also point out most everything he plays with if you name it. He also knows where his belly, nose, ears, eyes, and mouth are. He refuses to say "touchdown" anymore, but we still try sometimes :-)

This weekend Chris had drill so we finally made it back up to MN for a visit. Thursday night Elijah got to see his grandma and he was very excited about that. He made sure to ask her what everything was by pointing everywhere and saying "dat". The rest of the weekend we stayed at Darren and Alaina's house where Elijah just roamed around and played with random stuff while Alaina and I had some girl time. On Saturday we got lucky and got some free passes for the MN Zoo from the library so we went to the zoo for a few hours. Elijah refused to take a nap the whole time we were there, even though he was totally exhausted, he didn't want to miss a thing. I think his favorite part was when we went underground and could look at all the tropical fish through the glass. He just stood there and stared and made "Ooohhooohhh" noises. We also got to visit great-grandma and great-grandpa and uncle Chris and auntie Lisa and his cousins Sophie and Abby. All in all, it was a very exciting weekend :-)

Here is a picture of me and Elijah sitting on the turtle at the MN Zoo :-)

So let's see, the excitement of the day today is when I cut Elijah's fingernails. It was extremely traumatic and he screamed his lungs out. But man, I gotta cut that kid's nails, they are like razors! Plus he is not a gentle boy, I have been scratched more times than I care for. And I have to cut them constantly because they grow so fast and he can't seem to hold still so then I have to hold him down, and then the screaming comes... Crazy kid. That's all for now! :-)