Because!

Today we had finished up lunch and I was feeding Elliot to try to get him down for a nap.  Harry came over carrying a pair of his favorite shoes and said "My shoes!" and promply dropped them on Elliot's head.  He didn't even flinch so I don't think it hurt him, but it earned Harry an express ticket to time out.  While I was talking to him about how that was naughty, mean, and inappropriate, I asked him why he threw the shoes at his brother.  He said, "Because."  Oh lord.  I didn't even know that he knew that word much less how to use it.  In his defense, I really don't think that he hit the baby with his shoes on purpose, but I wanted to try to teach him to be more careful.  I had to hold back the laughter over his reasoning though!!

We spent half of last week and the weekend (just in time for the stock market to crash!) in Tennessee visiting Nana and Poppy and had a great, relaxing time.  The highlight of the trip was taking the boys to the Tennessee Aquarium.  Harry had a blast, and is still talking about the "--shbowl (the biggest fishbowls ever!), charks, seahorse, jewyfish, and goldsish" that he saw.  We gotta work on those f's and l's!  We had great weather and no traffic problems, all in all a great getaway.  Elliot didn't even cry once on the way down!  The ride home was a different story, but you can't expect perfection all of the time!

Poor Elliot is missing out on the fun of petting mini sharks and sting rays!

Elliot is doing great with eating baby food!  He absolutely loves it!  His menu includes: squash, sweet potatoes, peas, bananas, applesauce, and pears.  Tonight I think we'll add in another green veggie, so it looks like Elliot will be trying green beans tonight!  Yum yum!  We did have a strange scenario with him last week.  He had a busted blood vessel in both of his eyes in one week (on different days).  We think the first one was from a crying spell he had at Katrina's, so we didn't think much of it.  We couldn't explain the second one though, and that's when I got really worried.  I called the pediatrician, who said if it happened again bring him in, then I called my eye doctor who also basically said not to worry about it.  His eyes have been nice and white since then so hopefully it will just be one of those fluke things.

I Loooooove Food!

This weekend's activities include working for me (boo!) and having family pictures taken (yay!).  Keep your fingers crossed for us!