Snow!!

He kept fighting the hat, but once he was on the sled, he totally forgot about it.

Stuck in the three inch snow.

Trains!

I know you can hardly see the train, but it is constantly running today.

I guess one man's outdated mode of transportation is another's preferred background music.

Christmas Part IV

We were in PA for round four of Christmas. Grammy had a rocking horse and Eli loved it!

Pop decided that it was time to start a train hobby. Much to Eli's delight that not only included trains but building as well. In this photo he is stressing the importance of measure twice, cut once. You never know who might be pushing on the tape measure!

Eli often work the hat of "Supervisor" during the construction. Here is approving of Pop's technique with the screwdriver. After Pop was finished Eli made sure the screw was flush, pronounced it "ot" and blew on it. They made a good team.

Eli's skill with a hammer was also excercised and perfected.

I believe this was an "oh no" reaction to Madelyn causing train wrecks with overly rapid acceleration.

Christmas Part III

We had a quick layover at home and then we headed up to PA to see my mom and brother's family. We were able to finish up Grammy's present with a little finger painting, and set up our two workbenches in the garage.

Notice how he chose to play with the recycling instead?!

Christmas Part II

From the lake we headed a smidgen further north to see Jason's family. It was short and sweet, but a good trip.

Eli loved his very own set of oven mitts!

The tool bench was even more exciting...and I would like to add that once you set it up, it is quite loud! There is nothing cuter then watching him change his drill bits and run around tightening all our loose screws! (no pun intended, just bite you tongue.)

We also got to visit the model train display. I know you can't see a train in this picture, but this is the only picture we have where you can tell how excited he was!

He also got to go to a football game. Air Force played some other team, I think the other team won, but Eli still had a good time. I was informed that his applause did always match the plays, but you can't blame him for a lack of enthusiasm!

Christmas Part I

Our first stop on our holiday tour was Granddad's house. The following pictures are of Eli enjoying "Texas snow" ...and sticks.

It was my first stick bouquet!

It wasn't super cold, but cold enough that I begged for a fire every day! Eli knew it was hot and would walk up waving his hands at it and saying "ot" but he still liked to sit in front of it because mommy and daddy always did. He also liked hunting for pine cones and trying to throw them into the fire. We managed to divert his aim towards the wood bucket which wasn't "ot".

Here he is dragging some newly picked pine cones. His coat is on backwards because I'm all about choices. And that's what he chose.

We always eat well at the lake, it is one of the major attractions. Eli likes it too.