Back Up & Running!

Well....after a hectic week following Christmas I am glad to say we are finally back up & running. For starters, we are so lucky to have been out of our home when the tree snapped in front of our home and caused an electrical fire. The electrician said that if any one was home using the water we would have had serious issues. So thank god that wasn't the case. Our electrical panel and a bunch of wires are completely new & replaced, within 3 days we were back in our home. Originally our house smelled like hair burning on a curling iron but that gradually went away. The pine trees in front of our home are around 60-65 ft. tall, we have 7 trees (well now 6 since) so it is a big job and will be costly to get them removed, but we think worth it at this stage. The thought of this happening ever again with another wind storm freaks us out. When we bought the house I fell in love with these trees that line the front of our property but right now my feelings have completely changed. Check them out in the pic below, you can tell the one that came down where you see the gap between the trees.

On a more happy note, our little Elias over here seems to be doing great! He loves the exersaucer which we introduced to him the week before Christmas. It can be over stimulation so we have to time it right, but for the most part he loves the new perspective of being in it. Also, Elias got a fun chair from Meme & Poppi as an Christmas gift that comes with a tray (they are called Bumbo chairs) so now we are using that when we feed him rice cereal. We started Eli on rice cereal the night before Christmas Eve. The first time we tried it while he was in his high chair & he seemed lost in that chair so this new chair he got is perfect for this stage!

Eli seems to be getting much better with the rice cereal, he is not scarfing it down just yet but we are making progress and he is getting better each day at moving the food to the back of his mouth. The first 3 times the cereal was all over his face and barely making it down the hatch. It was super cute though to watch. Here are some pics of Eli over the past few weeks, also a few pictures of him meeting Santa for the fist time on Christmas Eve.

And, because I never got around to posting pictures from Christmas Day at our house I figured I would put some up now, better late than never! I hated that our PC was out of commission there for a few days...not being able to upload pictures was killing me.







While in "picture mode" I wanted to post some of Eli meeting Grandpa (my dad) for the first time this past weekend. Also, Great Grandpa & Great Grandma got to see Eli again, we had such a nice time visiting everyone in NYC