Friday, April 24, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Spring... finally...
Spring is finally here and I am super excited about it :-) Of course today it is kind of rainy and gloomy, which is why I am inside on the computer. But it is still warm enough to wear a t-shirt and sandals and that is FANTASTIC!
Chris and I have been taking advantage of this beautiful weather, we raked the yard and picked up all the nasty giant dog poop that accumulated over the winter and we planted a garden with cucumbers, green beans, peas, sugar snap peas, romaine lettuce, and some other random stuff. I am SO excited about it! I have wanted to grow my own vegetables for so long and it is so great to have access to a yard to put them in. Now if we could only get rid of the monster that lives in the backyard... a.k.a. Buddy, the giant moose of a dog with no brain... But then again, I don't own the place so my opinion doesn't really matter too much. I can't wait until Chris and I have our own place! That dream is still a ways away I am afraid... We also took our first picnic of the season the other day over by Lake McBride for you Iowans who know where that is. Beautiful place considering it's one of the few lakes in the whole state... :-P Ok so there are more than a few, but really, you can't even compare to the 10,000 in MN.
So here's what's new with Elijah... He is finally crawling! This happened just in the last couple weeks. He's moving pretty slow and he still gets a little bit frustrated, but he can totally get all over the place if he wants to. And he seems to be getting better at it everyday so pretty soon we won't even be able to keep track of him. He's still standing up leaning against things or holding onto someone's hands, but he isn't standing on his own yet. He's trying to pull himself up, but can only make it to his knees... He's a heavy guy! He also said "mama" a couple weeks back and he said it all day and the next day, but then he decided that wasn't fun so he hasn't said it since. He's been saying "dada" forever. He hasn't said anything else yet, just babble. He almost looked like he wanted to wave back at someone at church today but he just kind of held his hand up in the air and stared... Which is pretty much what he does all the time. He's started sticking his tongue out all the time, it's really cute :-P One behavior I'm not too thrilled about is that when he wakes up now, he will sit up in his crib instead of just laying there like he did before. It is cute sometimes after naps he will just sit up and play, but in the middle of the night he sits up and screams until somebody gets him... And since he makes himself sit up, he totally wakes up and won't lay back down and go back to sleep like he normally would if we just ignored him... Silly kid.
I think that's about all that's new, he is becoming more and more fun every day, I just love the little guy :-)
Chris and I have been taking advantage of this beautiful weather, we raked the yard and picked up all the nasty giant dog poop that accumulated over the winter and we planted a garden with cucumbers, green beans, peas, sugar snap peas, romaine lettuce, and some other random stuff. I am SO excited about it! I have wanted to grow my own vegetables for so long and it is so great to have access to a yard to put them in. Now if we could only get rid of the monster that lives in the backyard... a.k.a. Buddy, the giant moose of a dog with no brain... But then again, I don't own the place so my opinion doesn't really matter too much. I can't wait until Chris and I have our own place! That dream is still a ways away I am afraid... We also took our first picnic of the season the other day over by Lake McBride for you Iowans who know where that is. Beautiful place considering it's one of the few lakes in the whole state... :-P Ok so there are more than a few, but really, you can't even compare to the 10,000 in MN.
So here's what's new with Elijah... He is finally crawling! This happened just in the last couple weeks. He's moving pretty slow and he still gets a little bit frustrated, but he can totally get all over the place if he wants to. And he seems to be getting better at it everyday so pretty soon we won't even be able to keep track of him. He's still standing up leaning against things or holding onto someone's hands, but he isn't standing on his own yet. He's trying to pull himself up, but can only make it to his knees... He's a heavy guy! He also said "mama" a couple weeks back and he said it all day and the next day, but then he decided that wasn't fun so he hasn't said it since. He's been saying "dada" forever. He hasn't said anything else yet, just babble. He almost looked like he wanted to wave back at someone at church today but he just kind of held his hand up in the air and stared... Which is pretty much what he does all the time. He's started sticking his tongue out all the time, it's really cute :-P One behavior I'm not too thrilled about is that when he wakes up now, he will sit up in his crib instead of just laying there like he did before. It is cute sometimes after naps he will just sit up and play, but in the middle of the night he sits up and screams until somebody gets him... And since he makes himself sit up, he totally wakes up and won't lay back down and go back to sleep like he normally would if we just ignored him... Silly kid.
I think that's about all that's new, he is becoming more and more fun every day, I just love the little guy :-)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I think it's about time for another blog. I'm sitting here at the computer with the Obama press conference playing in the background and he's pretty much boring me out of my mind with his mindless banter, so I need something more productive to do (I know, blogging is real productive :-P)
So anyway, let's see what's new with the Cox family. Chris had spring break last week so we went up to MN to spend some time with friends and family. We stayed in Walker for a little over half the time and then in Eden Prairie for the other half. We didn't do anything too exciting, Elijah was still recovering from his sickness so we took it pretty slow. He is doing much better now, back to his old playful, stinker-butt self :-)
Wow I really don't have much to say :-/ I think I will have to come back later when my mind is working... In the meantime I will put up a cute picture of my baby :-)
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