Outnumbered and Overjoyed

I skipped last month, as Maddux aligned her arrival with the first week of the month, when I would have normally posted a new Donation Corne...

Eli has MMO this morning so Maddux and I headed to Kennesaw Mountain for her first hike. Eli was a little older when he visited the mountain...

I know it seems like I've overused that phrase recently, but it really rings true these days. Grandma and Grandpa left yesterday and whi...

How long have I been reciting the alphabet and numbers with Eli? It seems like forever...real time is probably closer to 18-months. When we ...

He don't eat no meat.......(Sorry - not many people other than Lehr will get that.) Since I stopped pureeing Eli's fruit about a yea...

Not that it came as any surprise to me, but Eli LOVES Grandpa Jim. He hasn't seen him since March, but you'd never have known given ...

Maddux slept in her crib last night for the first time. We tried her on Friday night, but between her 3am feeding and her 630am feeding, I k...

Maddux is growing so fast!! I think I am noticing it more with her than I did with Eli because she started so small (at least smaller than E...

We took another trip to the Botanical Gardens this morning. Eli had a blast running through the fountains, as he always does. Afterwards we ...

Eli had an appointment with the orthopedic this morning. As we hoped (and pretty much suspected), there is no sign of relapse!!! Eli's f...

Wow. I know I keep bringing it up, but Eli has become an absolute sponge when it comes to words lately! There are a lot of new words he'...

In my last photo email, I titled one picture of Maddux's feet, "Perfect Feet and Toes". After giving this title more thought, ...

This video doesn't need much explanation.

Eli's new hobby is drinking milk from a bowl. In the last few weeks he's transitioned himself off of oatmeal (a one-time favorite br...

About two months before we moved I decided to buy Eli a 'potty' seat so that he could become aware of what it was. I didn't dare...

Eli is still doing really well with Maddux. Offering his blanket, sharing toys, and only poking her eye and saying "eye" once so f...

I took Maddux to the pediatrician this morning for a weight-check due to her low weight when we left the hospital last week. Of course as so...

Eli has become much more fond of his sister (still called 'be-be') in the last week. He loves how she sits in her car seat next to t...

Ok. The story on the name. About two weeks before we sold our house Lehr threw out the name 'Maddux' in an IM to me one morning. Gre...

That is the only word I can think of to describe Eli right now. Big. For a few months he's seemed big-ger, but not 'big'. Now th...