1 Month

Elliot is one month old today!!!

I know he looks slightly stunned in this photo. We had a really busy day, and I had about 2 seconds to take a picture of him. Plus...that is just kind of his expression these days.

For comparison, here is Henry at one month old:

(Henry was a little better at posing at this age...)

To celebrate his one month birthday, Elliot came with me to our mom/baby exercise class:

(he doesn't participate much)

And then in the afternoon we had Henry's 5 year check up. He is weighing in at 41.5 pounds (32%) and 44 inches (75%). Still Mr. Skinny!

Henry's 5th Birthday Party

We had Henry's 5th birthday party today! He decided long ago that this year he wanted it held at the local mecca for pre-school birthday parties - My Gym - and since they make it easy on the parents by basically doing everything for you we figured that this year was a good time to do it.

The "theme" was, of course, Toy Story. Our local cake shop once again came through with an awesome cake for us:

The kids had a great time running around and playing all the various games with the instructors:

Henry loved leading the "Birthday Boy Parade":

Then it was time to blow out the candles:

Thank you to all of our friends for celebrating with us!

Firehouse Party

This morning, right before Henry's birthday party, we celebrated Liam's 3rd birthday with a party and tour of a local firehouse. Henry loved being able to climb in the trucks, try on firefighter gear, and seeing the firefighters in action.

Brotherly Love

Henry has not gotten over his Elliot obsession. I thought after a few weeks he may become kind of bored about the whole thing (seeing as how Elliot doesn't do much at this point), but Henry still adores him - is constantly checking on him, hugging him, talking to him, helping change diapers, give baths, burp him, you name it.

Here is his latest drawing:

It is a picture of Elliot in his crib and says: Elliot I love you I love you I love you (we are still working on spacing between words, obviously)

Elliot fell asleep in his bouncy chair and Henry decided to display his art on him:

2nd Child

I am ashamed to admit that I have allowed Elliot to fall into typical 2nd child syndrome ...meaning that at this point in Henry's life, I had taken hundreds of photos, and at this point for Elliot...maybe 20? (At least I never got around to doing a baby book for Henry, so Elliot won't feel slighted that there is no way I will be finding the time to do a baby book for him!) So, hoping to slightly rectify things, here are some current pictures of the little guy:

Henry is FIVE!!!!

It is true...our incredibly sweet, active, enthusiastic, creative, caring, wonderful, Toy Story obsessed Henry is FIVE today!!!

As usual, we started the day with him waking to our gifts to him:

After preschool, our sitter came over to watch Elliot and Henry and I headed to the Children's Museum:

For his birthday dinner, Henry requested that we go to Five Guys Burgers (he is a big fan of the peanuts.) While there, I requested that he give me a "5 year old smile" for a photo. This is what he gave me:

Here's hoping that he does not actually use that expression for all photos this year.

Happy birthday Henry!!!!