It's All About Eli!

Time to talk about the child in the middle!  Eli is just the best kid there ever was!  He is so grown-up that we sometimes forget he is only three!  So smart.  Eli went to get ice cream with Mike and I at McDonald's recently.  I just had to take a few pictures of his ice cream face!

 

 


Eli has been the best eater of the family!  There is nothing this kid will not eat.  Of course, now that I say that, he will become a picky eater!  He actually loves to eat raw onions.  His Great Pop used to eat raw onions like an apple, only with mayonnaise on each bite.



 Eli loves his Pop.  Here they are hanging out during VBS.  (I know this is all about Eli, but Miles is in the doorway over to the left :) )


 Eli has become quite adventurous.  It may be hard to tell what he just climbed, but it is really not that easy to climb for a three year old!  It requires taking some pretty big steps.  He saw it as a challenge and did it over and over again!


 Jenni, Jay, and Eli all share a birthday month.  This year we celebrated Eli and Jenni together.  Eli has a cupcake, Jenni a big cake.  Doesn't quite seem fair when you look back at it!  They both blew out all their candles!



Eli likes to play games.  He had fun playing games at our church Funival and Trunk or Treat.  Doesn't he make a cute Longhorn Football player!


Of course, he could also grow up to be a model.  Just look at  this picture from our family photo shoot last December!  Our photographer, Amy Coffee, got perfection from him!  This is truly one of my favorite pictures!


I certainly could not write about Eli without a picture of him wearing the Elmo pi's!




Eli loved to play "Where's Eli"  when he was little.



Wasn't he just the cutest little boy baby?  Also loved playing with the piano we first bought for Ava.


Eli so far has been the only grandchild to have his very own, all by himself, dedication ceremony.
Both grandfathers blessed the new little boy.  It was very special.  I have a video of it, but it is over 3 minutes long.  A little too long for a blog, I think.  And I'm not sure I can upload something that long.  But I have it!  If anyone wants to watch it, just come on over to the house!

Did I mention this blog might not be chronological?  I keep finding pictures of Eli that I like!  I like this one!  It was his first OU weekend!  Loving on his Pop.


Another picture I like.  Stolen from Sarah.  He and Ava are just the best playmates!  This is some of her handiwork.


And I love this picture of Eli.  Such a cutie!


I just found one more I think I have to include!


I'm sure I could go on and on and on and on.  But I have to stop sometime.  Well, maybe not just yet. I have two more pictures that I love to show you.  Then I'll stop.  I promise.  First, newborn Eli.  Still at the hospital.
  

And, really the last one, a picture of Jay and Eli that Sarah took.  One of my very favorites!
  

I look forward to many more years of pictures of this guy.  He is so very special!


"My child, if your heart is wise,
My own heart will rejoice!
Everything in me will celebrate
When you speak what is right."
Proverbs 23:15-16



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