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So, we’ve got some catching up to do, eh? Last time we talked, Eli had the croup and was too sick to wear his Halloween costume, he was slowly transitioning from commando crawl to hands-and-knees, and his top two teeth were just poking through. Now, our main jobs in life have become “Keep Eli From…

He just couldn’t handle being in costume last night (and he had a pretty good fever going, so we didn’t want to cook him). But in the interest of record-keeping, we at least laid him on top of his costume and took a picture … and then he went directly to bed. Poor baby. The…

Eli and I are having a sick day today (and yesterday, and probably tomorrow, and hopefully not Thursday) because he has croup. Or, as Justin likes to call it, The Croup. He woke up with it Sunday night, and then got some steroids Monday morning for his worsening breathing. It’s a one-dose thing and they…

Eli’s new monkey towel takes bathtime cute to a whole new level: Speaking of monkeys, he may have a favorite new toy: He has a new girlfriend in Scarlett: And we’ll never need to buy him a car, because he’s perfectly happy with a shopping cart. Remember this, Eli. Remember it well. In cuteness relating…

I guess I sort of thought we’d get to six months and then just stop. You don’t hear a lot about seven-month-old babies, you know? Six months is sort of this milestone, and after that felt like uncharted territory. But here we are, marching on into seven months (as of Oct. 2). And marching we…

Breaking news! Eli has sprouted not one, but TWO teeth! We’ve tried and tried to take pictures, and I even thought taking a video might work, but Eli is much more interested in blowing raspberries and pushing the camera away than he is in opening wide for mommy: But he actually handled the tooth-growing incredibly…

Eli turned six months old on September 2, and he is right on schedule! He’s followed up rolling with, well, rolling the other way. He can now sit up (when placed in a sitting position) almost completely unassisted — there are still periodic lurches backward and to the side when he forgets that he’s sitting…

We’re three weeks into the fifth month and it’s becoming all too clear: Eli is a big boy now. It feels like he’s developing his personality at a rocketship pace–and becoming more independent, bossy, and ambitious every second. His little coos and tiny-baby wails have given way to full-on hollers, dolphin-like shrieks, and squeals of…

Ok, I know we reported that Eli rolled over at four weeks, but after that, he got a little lazy. Now, we’re happy to report that he has truly rolled over, for real, under his own power, after weeks of frustrated trying. He now easily goes front to back and is working pretty hard on…

Not much new this week, for my birthday Molly turned Eli into a Simpsons character as pictured above. More to come…