9 month appt. & 4 years of Marriage!

So we have our camera back, yeah! Thank you Adam for picking it up :) As you can see above Eli is playing as usual with all his toys scattered through the living room enjoying every minute of it!

Here are Eli's new stats -

19 lbs. 4 oz. - 35th percentile

29 1/2 inches long - 85th percentile

45 inches circumference of his squash

(we refer to Eli's head as his "squash", it is quite round, he gets this from Poppi & Uncle Tommy, they both had very round heads as babies. He is completely normal though, it just protects him from his falls better! hahah..)


The doctor said Eli looks great, he had his cold/runny nose situation going on (he is cutting another tooth) but his ears & lungs were clear so nothing to worry about. Finally that tooth has come through and it is working its way out now. Poor little guy is a BEAR when he cuts these teeth!


Yesterday, June 3rd was our 4 year wedding anniversary!
(this is our engagement photo)

We have been together for 9 years total. We reminisced last night about our wedding day, and how we had the very best time that day. Totally carefree and not at all stressed! It even rained so we didn't get married on the golf course but we were moved inside and everything was perfect, we couldn't ask for more. All our friends & family were with us, I wish I could relive that day again, I guess that is what makes it such a great memory....

We celebrated last night by drinking some white wine & we had take out sushi once Eli went down to bed at 7:30pm. The best part about the wine is that it is a new cheap bottle and it is FAB!! For the price you can't beat it - $5 a bottle!! It is called Gato Negro and we had the Savignon Blanc variety, I highly recommend. My friend Nicole was at the same packy I was at last night and I got the recommendation from her. Thanks Nicole :)

Our sushi was YUMMY as usual, this is our new way of eating fancy with a baby. For Adam's 30th it was also during the week and since we are eating dinner together when Eli goes down to bed we started doing take out sushi and it is perfect. We are working our way through the whole menu at this point! Last time we were actually sitting at the restaurant was New Years but takeout is just so much more convenient these days.


And....some might call this the height of laziness (which I am ok with) but I tried for the first time "ShopRite from Home". You order your groceries online, schedule when you are going to pick them up and they come out to your car with the little computer thing, you give them your coupons and form of payment (cash/check or credit card) and you are checked out right at your car! Then they get your groceries and bring the cart to your car and you load them up and your off!

The whole process worked smoothly and I would do it again because I have some serious issues with grocery shopping:

I have to do it all the time, Adam doesn't do the grocery store. Period. Not even going there.

I have severe ADD that strikes me the moment I step foot into the grocery store. It is out of control. I just can't focus.

I use coupons allot and I am very organized about how I keep my coupons. I save a ton of $ doing so, the only area I am unable to save is in the produce aisle. I price compare so well that I often beat hands down any wholesale club & lots of times I get things for free or for pennies on the dollar. I save the most money in the areas of paper goods/cleaning items/baby items/and general grocery. Having said all that, price comparison takes me allot of time and grocery shopping is a chore, it pays to save but a chore for sure.

I constantly run into people at any of our 3 grocery stores in town, it is a given....so I chit chat and that just adds time to my whole process.

I don't have time to get to the store until Eli goes to bed and I HATE having to go out at night. Grocery shopping on the weekend is just not my way of spending my time, I will do it but I despise grocery shopping & laundry on the weekends!

So that is my new thing...we'll see how it works out, I am sure I will have to go into the grocery store here and there but no more 2 hour grocery store visits for me!! And I get to use my coupons still so this is a win-win for me I think!

Only 2 more days until my 1/2 marathon on Sunday, I will post the update on howthe race turned out on Sunday evening hopefully. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Recent Adventures

This past week & a half has been kinda busy you could say...I got lots of good runs in which was great and I am feeling very prepared for the 1/2 marathon on the 6th ! Only 1 more week until race day & I am hoping for no rain, low humidity and a nice breeze. It's a tall order but 2 out of the 3 would be FAB!

Last weekend we had a family picnic on Saturday for Adam's cousin's birthday's and Eli got to play on a huge trampoline. He had a blast! I wish I had pictures to post but our camera is still there. Very annoying. I don't leave the camera anywhere and if I did I would pick it up right away. * hint. hint.* Having a 9 month old dare devil requires you to have a camera on you at all times! Ok that is my lame passive aggressive attempt to see if Adam will go pick up the camera finally. Moving on....

Adam started a huge drainage project at our house while Eli & I spent 2 days visiting at my sisters with my Mom & Aunt Lydia. We went up to celebrate the long weekend but more importantly my sister's birthday that is coming up in a week. While we were out in Massachusetts, Adam spent his holiday weekend digging up our yard with a backhoe. Every time Adam does an outdoor project & rents heavy machinery it initially always brings a smile to his face. Being the outdoors man that he is to begin with then throw some construction equipment on top of that and he is happy as a pig in shit!

Currently, our house looks like a huge construction zone from the outside, all the major trenches he had to dig and drainage pipes he put in had happen this weekend. The backhoe will be picked up tomorrow & the remaining portion of the project is supposed to take Adam 2 weeks to finish. Once Adam is all done he will breathe a huge sigh of relief that all our gutters from the house will dump into this one fancy drain he put in. Also, we won't have to deal with a huge puddle that ices over every winter in our driveway and creeps into our garage. Not to mention the marshy area on our side lawn which got so bad a frog pond formed last summer and was back again this spring.

Tomorrow is Eli's 9 month appointment, he also has a cold, initially we thought it was an ear infection but the doc told us Saturday morning it was just a common cold. He was super cranky this past week, wouldn't nap many days in a row so it looks like there is another tooth is on it's way. The good thing is that if you keep Eli distracted enough he is ok with his cold and the runny nose you have to continuously wipe dry. Basically, you have to be on your A game with this his little guy just keep it moving type of thing and then he can't focus on how yucky he feels. He is a little clingy as well but I secretly love that part :) All the other times I try to keep Eli in my arms he tries to get out and on the ground so I do love snuggling with the little guy!

Hopefully tommorow I will have pictures to post with Eli's 9 month stats and report :) I would post a "file" picture but we finally got a new PC and all our pictures are on our external back up hard drive that we haven't transfered over yet either. I know we are just batting a zero here....