Long-Overdue Update

Elijah is pulling to a stand and crawling like a champ. He's pretty quick when he does his bear crawl on his hands and feet. He likes to make a mad dash for the dog-food bowl and/or water bowl and gets REALLY upset when he's intercepted. I'll upload a video if I can catch him in the act.

This is one of the first times I realized his ability to pull up and stand. I walked into his room and there he was, looking over the edge of his crib down at Liam, and just had a BIG smile on his face. Needless to say we lowered his crib to the lowest setting that night.


Elijah (just like Liam) has a craving for pasta and the uncontrollable desire to smear it all over and into every accessible orifice. Is it the smell? Is it the touch/sensation? Does marinara sauce have some sort of exfoliating effect to the skin? And, why all over the face, in the hair, in the eyes, in the ears, on the dog (if he's within reach), and finger-painting on his tray?

"My mug shot for Quentin Tarantino's next film"

We celebrated Easter with an Egg Hunt at the church. Liam was more interested in the slides on the playground than hunting for eggs. Elijah was able to snag one for himself and proudly shows it off to everyone.

"Thats Daddy's candy making that rattle noise"

We had a little more luck in getting Liam to look for eggs in the back yard. He seemed to find the well-hidden eggs fairly quickly, but as you can see, had some issues with the blatently obvious ones. His reward for finding the eggs: Chocolate!!

Those are actual self-portraits of Liam, Elijah, and Einstein

Two Swingin' Boys:

We stopped at a park outside Cary when we went to Durham to meet some friends for dinner. Liam and Elijah both love to swing. I see two dare-devils in the making. I just hope they don't nearly cut their pinky off with a Rambo-style "survivor" knife, 40 feet up a tree, while attemting to cut a vine to make a swing across the creek. That's just Daddy's concern.