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Please excuse this mess of a blog while I am changing the template. I'm trying a few different things, but it's a bit out of whack at the moment.

Eli, Oh Eli.

While doing a number puzzle, this is what I hear. “Ok, we’ve got number 3. What comes after that? Four. You betcha! Now number 5. Then 6. Then 7. Then 8. Then 9. You’re right. What’s the puzzle missing? Number zero. Right, you got it!”

Eli climbed up on the couch and sat next to me the other day. I was wearing a green Penn State t-shirt. He leaned in and said, “Mommy, that’s a really nice shirt.”

I asked Eli to be a helper and throw away the babies’ diapers. He said, “I can do it because I am a super cake.” I said, “You’re what? A super kid?” He answered, “No Mommy, I am a super CAKE.”

When he’s getting ready to do something or wants someone else to do something, he counts to three and yells “Ready, Go!”

(Sorry about this one) When he has to go number 2, he tells us that there is “some-sing in my hiney.”

He calls fruit snacks “lollipop seeds.”

When I ask him if what he is eating is good, he always answers, “it’s scrumptious.” He’ll even take a sip of water and call it scrumptious. He’s actually very much into food lately. Kevin picked up takeout from a new restaurant in Urbana for our anniversary one day late. I was talking to my mom on the phone when he walked in with the food. I told my mom that the food was here and we hung up. Eli heard me and ran over to the kitchen yelling, “Oh the food is here! I love food! I need that food!” (He had just eaten dinner 30 minutes earlier).

Eli isn’t the toughest kid. He’ll barely bump into something, and come running over to Kevin or me saying, “I hurt some-sing, I hurt some-sing.” It sometimes takes him a minute to remember what hurts. Luckily for us, a kiss still makes it all better.

We’ve been going for a lot of walks and Eli likes to take his lawn mower to “cut” the long grass we pass. In his words, “What a messy mess. I need to cut this grass. I need my lawnmower. I need to cut that. I need to cut that too....” etc, etc, etc.

Eli has been coming downstairs with me while I’m exercising. While I’m using dumbbells, he’s doing dead lifts with my pencil. While I can’t imagine he’s building much muscle tone, I guess it’s good practice counting reps.

Our Anniversary

I use this blog to post pictures of the fun things our family does- the fun trips, the visits to Milton, etc. I also use it as a way to document the things the kids are doing since I don't do baby books, just an annual photo album.

But just in case you are thinking all is rosy in the Kim household everyday, I am using the blog today to present to you...

3 hours in the Kim Household
May 12, 2011  (our 4th wedding anniversary)

Wow, what a morning. Luckily it ended far better than it started. Here is what the first three hours looked like. I woke up with a textbook case of mastitis. Ouch. Besides the pain from the infection, I had a fever, chills, a headache, and felt sick to my stomach. Eli got up earlier than usual and was wet. I had just nursed both babies at 5:30, but they both got awake at 7 too. Kevin hadn't slept well, so I put on sweats, took all three downstairs with me, and wrapped up in a blanket. One or both babies proceeded to cry for the next couple hours, so I was juggling both of them. In an attempt for attention, Eli meowed constantly or cried when he couldn't do something that required my assistance. In a headache-induced display of impatience, I sent him to time out for meowing. It was just too much. My kitchen looked like a tornado had gone through it. I hadn't even brushed my teeth or put my contacts in. When Kevin came downstairs, I handed him a baby and went upstairs for a break. Isn't that how everyone celebrates their wedding anniversary? :)

All Aboard!

My mom called Sunday night to see if we wanted to meet them in Strasburg, PA on Tuesday. Strasburg is located next to Lancaster and is a little town with a big railroad. Eli was so excited. The weather was absolutely perfect. We got there a little before noon and rode the train out to a picnic area. The conductor came through and got our tickets. The train ride was so nice and relaxing. Eli loved looking out the window and naming everything we passed.

The train stops at a little picnic area, and we chose to get off there and eat lunch. My parents packed a delicious picnic lunch and Eli got to play on the see-saw and swings afterwards. We stayed there for about an hour and then caught the next train to return to the station. Eli also enjoyed riding a small Thomas train ride and visting the toy store.

Just a little up the road is a place called the Choo Choo Barn. My parents got us all tickets to visit this neat place. http://www.choochoobarn.com/. It's a huge model train display- really detailed and really cool. Eli really wanted to play with all of the little pieces and didn't like that he could only look and not touch.

Thanks Mim and Pop for a wonderful day. We all had so much fun!

Playing with his new train toy from Pop

2 months (+2 weeks) check up

Spencer- 10 weeks old

8 lbs. 3 oz.

20 in.

head- 35cm

Ryan- 10 weeks

8 lbs. 6 oz.

20 3/4 in.

head- 37.7 cm

What's Your Vote?

Decorating Eggs

Eli dyed and decorated Easter eggs at Mim and Pop's house. He thought it was fun giving them a bath in the colors. We made a special egg for everyone with their name on it. 

Aunt Jo's Egg Hunt

More belated Easter-related pictures...

My dear Aunt Jo hosted an egg hunt at her house for Eli and Kylie. It's too bad the weather was cooperating, but they had fun hunting them inside.

Carrying eggs in his stylish Longaberger basket :)

Aunt Jo also had special presents for them. Eli loved his fire hat.

Checking out his treats





Family Picture

The Good

The Bad

And the Ugly

Happy (belated) Easter from our family to yours!