Eli's First Sit

A little wobbly - a good start.

Ellis Week 21

5 months today!!! These are a little late but still within a week.

Ellis Week 21 - a set on Flickr

9 Hours

Eli slept for 9 hours last night - 7:15p to 4:30a !!! We're reading the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth and are finding it very helpful for teaching Eli how to sleep well. Odd to say, think and write that we're teaching our son how to sleep well while that's exactly what we're doing.

Spinning in Circles

Well, that's a bit of an overstatement. During Eli's morning tummy time, after checking email for a few minutes, I looked over at him and he had done a 180* on the blanket! His head was where his feet were when I put him down there. He usually spins to the left. I wonder when he'll start crawling.

Jumping Dad

Dad jumps for Eli

Ellis Week 20

Staying caught up with the latest photos and videos this week!

Ellis Week 20 - a set on Flickr

Spit Bubble

Eli plays with his elephant until 51 sec when there's a huge spit bubble

Eli wakes up

With a small interruption...

Mommy

It's not that Eli called her that - it's that I did. I was changing Eli a couple of nights ago when I called to Jen saying, "Mommy, can you come in here?" I'm in fatherhood, all in.

Sesame Street - to watch or not to watch

What do you think - is Sesame Street an staple of U.S. childhood or is it harmful and to be avoided? I know there are lots of opinions out there, so if you have one, please leave a comment.

This article prompted this post:

15 Things You May Not Know About Sesame Street

Roll #5

This is Jen, blogging as Andrew.  We are both home this morning, and both witnessed Eli roll over.  Jen thought it was cute.  Andrew.... well, he thought it was blog worthy!!!!  So, this was it, roll #5 while he was laying on the floor for his morning tummy time.  No rolls yet from back to tummy, but he's getting close... he gets the bottom half to roll.  Now to get those pesky shoulders to turn...

:) We love our little guy, that's for sure.  Call us over-bloggers, but you know at the heat of it we are just over-excited first time parents!

Through the Night

"Is he sleeping through the night (yet)?" - this is the most often asked question about Eli and has been since he was born. Thankfully my good friend Rob forewarned me so I got to think about how I would respond. Newborns should be eating more frequently than sleeping through the night would afford for the first few months. Eli has been sleeping 6-7 hours for over a month now with regularity. (Technically, "sleeping through the night" means 6 hours.) Last night, he slept over 8 hours and awoke when Jen got up to get read to go to work! So we are celebrating this feat at 19 weeks. We have adapted pretty well to the one who's not working the next day getting up to feed Eli around 2-3 am when he wakes for his night feeding. Hopefully we won't be doing that much longer.