Pictures at last, for the month of June!

We spent Memorial Day out at the lake with friends.

Here are a few pics of Eli with his buddy Hogan

Being sweet and sharing food



Bath Time

Eli on the boat

Both Boys on the boat


I was able to meet up with a family I babysat for in College over Memorial Day weekend.
The kids were Eli's age and younger when I started keeping them and now the oldest is headed to middle school!



While staying with Mike and Amy, Eli and Georgia had tons of time to play together!

Here they are making a mess!






Eli exploring the new house:
He loves sitting in the window


Look Mom, I found your sunglasses!

BOXES, BOXES, BOXES



With a playroom, we blew up Eli's Ball Pit! He loves it!!!

Brandon turned 30 on June 11th and I threw a little dinner party for him.
Here he is with dessert!




Here is everyone that was able to make it:
Chris, Brandon, Deborah, Greg, Yvonne, Corry, Amy, Amy, Mike, Chelsea, David



Eli in throw the ball mode


We went to my good friend Amy's house to swim.
Amy and Eli


Hope, Eli, and Amy


Eli in the drivers seat!



For Father's Day a few of the girls and I send our hubby's golfing and then we fixed dinner for everyone! Here is the "Daddy" pic
Brandon and Eli, Josh and his three girls, Cory and Hogan


Daddy and Eli

Eli all PJ'ed up and ready for bed



The only two pictures I have of Eli on his 19 month b-day!




Every summer the Robinson (my moms side) family meets at the lake for family time and fun. When they can my dad's brother and his family also joins us.
These are a few pics of the weekend!

Laura, Eli, and Bryce having fun on the slide


Eli, Brandon, and Britten

The Robinson Grandkids
Steven, Blake, Jeana, Kyle, Kelsey, David, Deborah, Bryan, Paula



Grandkids, Spouses, and Great Grandkids
Steven, Lauren, Blake, Jeana, Kyle, Alyson, Kelsey, Brandon, Deborah (holding Eli), Paula, Bryan (holding Bryce and Laura), Carrie (holding Benjamin), Annie, David



Robinson's
Aunts, Uncles, Grandkids, Greats, and Better Halfs
Steven, Ruth, Jan, Bruce, Blake (holding Bryce), Lauren, Jeana, Kyle, Alyson, Leon, Kelsey, Brandon, Deborah (holding Eli), Bryan (holding Laura), Paula, Carrie (holding Benjamin), Annie, Ladell, David, Mark



Grammy's kids
Britten, Benjamin, Laura, Eli, Brooklynn, Bryce


Brooklynn and Eli



July post, Eli 20 months, and more pics to come!!

Eli, 19 1/2 months old

Sorry I did not get this posted earlier, I have trouble sitting down to type a whole post at once without interruptions (and I only have one kido, how do others do it?).

Eli at 19 months.....

He is all boy. He loves to play, run, climb, and roll around. Eli laughs 99% of the day. He things everything is funny. He is into hiding. He will get a hold of something he knows he is not to have and find a corner to hide in. He loves giving kisses and hugs and is an overall happy kid.
One of his favorite things to do is go outside. He mows, play at his water table, climb the climber, and just explores the yard. He will go to the back door and ask to go out, it makes it harder to say no when he is saying please out loud now and so cute. The rain the past week has been hard on him since he did not get much out side time. Eli also enjoys the playroom. I have it set up into different areas and he likes to run from one thing to the next.
Eli is very particular when it comes to putting on his socks and shoes. He wants you to put on both socks then both shoes. If you try to put on the left sock and shoe then move to the right he gets upset and will kick his foot to let you know you forgot his sock.
When asked "Where's your belly button" Eli can point to his belly button and will left up his shirt if he can (one piece outfits make this hard). He also says belly button. Eli can point to his noise when asked (most of the time) and we are working on "where are your ears?"
One of Eli's favorite games is to play Mama--Eli. He calls out "Mama" and waits until you call "Eli" the repeats "Mama". This can go on for some time.
Eli is waving and saying hi now, he has had bye-bye down for awhile not but Hi is new.
New Words said regularly:
shoes
hi
keys (he asks for keys often, he likes setting off the horn)
berry
boat
truck
butter (the kid loves the stuff and will hand you back a roll to put more butter on it)
please (he has been signing this but now says it)

He is able to say a lot of names you just have to ask him to say them.

He is trying new words all the time. When ask to say a word most times he does, but now all words he continues to say without prompting.

Again no pictures. Every time I try to up-load them they turn in to letters and such. I will keep working on the problem and get them to you soon!

WOW! What a month!

Sorry it has taken me so long to up-date.

We have had a very fun and busy month. This post will be picture free due to problems uploading! I will post all the pictures that go with the following events as soon as possible.

For Memorial Day weekend we had friends out to the lake to play. We had a wonderful time just hanging out on and off the lake. The Curry's stayed at the house with us and the boys (Hogan and Eli) had a blast. Lots of the big boys came out with their families for a great time.

The next weekend I moved us into our new home (with the help a 3 paid movers) and a few friends. Brandon had a blast in St. Louise for a friends Bachelor party (don't worry I got a night out for the Bachelorette party)!

Our first official day / night in the new house was June 7th. We are loving it.

For the weekend of June 11-13 we celebrated Brandon's 30th birthday! On Friday night we went over to the Wood's house to celebrate, they were leaving for CO and could not make the surprise party. On Saturday Brandon got to watch USA play England in a World Cup game here at the house with his dad and brother. The rest of the family was here also to play. Eli had been missing his Georgia! That night Brandon thought we were going to dinner just the two of us. When we got to the restaurant... SURPRISE!! A table full of his friends were there. Thanks to all that could make it!! Sunday was a lazy day with church and naps.

We had a great Father's day weekend. Friday night we had dinner with Brandon's family to celebrate all the wonderful fathers! Saturday Brandon got to have some one on one time with Eli while mommy had a night out for a Bachelorette party. On Sunday I surprised Brandon with a round of golf with friends and then a family barbecue. The boys got to go play golf, come back to one of the houses and watch golf, then have dinner with everyone! It was a blast to see all the little ones running around and to celebrate what a wonderful husband and dad Brandon is.

The week after Father's Day was Kids Kamp at our church. I had a wonderful group of 2nd graders to lead. It was a exciting and exhausting week. Praise the Lord for all the hearts that were opened!!!

Wednesday Kelsey calls me after Kamp and asked if I could take her to the ER? She broke her foot running up the stairs and can not put any weight on it for two weeks, then back to the doc. She lived with us in our office downstairs until last Thursday and will be back after the 4th to stay until she leaves for New York.

Eli turned 19 months on June 24th! I will post a separate update for his 19th month achievements.

The last weekend of June we had my Robinson family at the lake. We had every aunt, uncle, cousin, and great grand kid; except the Bartlett crew. Jim and Iria just had twins that are still in the NICU and Aunt Karen was out in CA with them. John and Lina were in Columbia with Lina's family, and Jason is at boot camp.
We also had Tarah and the girls and Lauren's parents and brother, Clint. My Storms aunt and uncle came and my cousin John.
It was a wonderful weekend of story telling (they keep getting bigger) and just hanging out with family.

The 4th weekend was uneventful. We went to Ikea to get a few things for the house, cleaned, up things together, unpacked, watched soccer, and just hung out. On Sunday we worked nursery and then we to the lake for a few hours to see Aunt Lauren and Uncle Blake before they headed back to Las Vegas. We talked about going and seeing fireworks but just ended up hanging out at the house with the Woods until late. Monday Brandon had off, we just hung out at the house and worked.


Pictures to come as soon as i can get them to up-load.