18 months!

Our little Eli man turned 18 months last week. He is such a delightful child and we love him so much! We went to the doctor for his check-up yesterday and he's doing great! I could tell he had grown a lot lately, and sure enough, he grew more than the past few times. He continues to be a little above average for height, skinny for weight, and he's actually growing into his big head! Haha.

Last week my mom was here for a few days. We had fun visiting with her and then she went on to Idaho to see my sister for a few days. She was lucky enough to be here when we had our big snow storm! She was in a bit of a shock, but it turned out to be a pretty nice day after that.

That morning I made pancakes with Eli's help:

He loves to stand on a chair and help me in the kitchen. I'm in the kitchen a lot and he hates when he can't see what's going on. Whenever I start to get things out to make something he tries to carry the chair over and he starts shouting things like "Bowl!" He loves to help. :)

The day after the big snow was a beautiful sunny day, so we spent the afternoon outside playing. We still had a bit of snow in the shady areas of our yard, so Eli had fun making snow balls and carrying them to various spots on the patio.

(This is a little bike our neighbor gave us since they were moving. It has all sorts of buttons to push that say things like "To the bat cave!" and "Moving right!" Of course it's not annoying at all when pushed repeatedly...Eli loves it though)

We sure love our little guy! He keeps us entertained and busy, that's for sure. He did well in nursery again on Sunday, for which I'm very glad, and he's just getting so grown up! I love how interactive he is now and how well we can communicate with each other. It's so much nicer to be able to explain things to him and for him to tell me what he wants most of the time.

Oh, and by the way, the weather is beautiful this week! All the snow was gone in a couple days and this week it's in the 60s with sunny blue skies. Hooray!