Mr. Personality

Elisha's personality is beginning to truly shine through! And let me tell you he is all boy!!! Yesterday, Andrew had him and I was in the kitchen taking care of some things and Elisha decided that it would be a great time to poop.  That was totally okay with me because the rule in our house is if you are holding him when it happens then you are responsible for the diaper.  So Andrew took Elisha over to the changing table to change him. A minute or two later I heard "Erin come here I need your help!" I was like "What do you need?" and Andrew just said "I need your help, hurry please!" When I got over to the changing table Andrew's said "He just peed everywhere as I was changing the dirty diaper." As Andrew said this Elisha got the biggest smile on his face and started laughing.  It was so funny! I literally almost fell on the floor laughing.

Later in the afternoon I had Elisha and he was up on my shoulder and decided that he should spit up everywhere.  When I took him down and was wiping him off I said "Really Buddy, I was going to wear this again tomorrow" and again he got a huge smile and started laughing.  Then not even 30 minutes later he was sitting next to me and he pooped again!! (Now I know most babies poop all day long but Elisha normally poops once a day so the fact that he had two in a short time frame was crazy.)  So I pick him up and was holding him and said "Are you done yet? Or do you have more?" and he got a huge smile and let loose again.   Andrew was taking pictures at this point because Elisha was being so funny and full of smiles.

Isn't that the cutest face! He was just as happy as could be.  I waited a few minutes to make sure he was done and then I took him over to the changing table and when I put him down I looked down at myself and saw ...

Seriously! So I look at Elisha and said "Really Bud. How did you get all that poop in you?" and he smiled and laughed again.  He is such a happy boy and is full of smiles and laughs; particularly when it comes to poop and spit up!

Andrew then found this card and he thought it summed up our day well:

I guess "Pooh" is the theme in our house :-)

We've been Flocked!

Thursday night Andrew got home from the restaurant and came inside and asked "Did you hear anything outside?" I was so confused, and responded with "Just you coming home?"  He said "No, come look." When I looked out of the door this is what I saw ...  

Apparently, this is a common youth group fundraiser; Andrew had completed it at multiple churches.  The youth come and put the flamingos in your yard and then leave a letter explaining the program.  This church was leaving them up for one day and then they come back and move the "flock".  If you wanted to help support the Youth Group's missions trip to Honduras you could pay $20 to send the "flock" to another family.  We send the flock on to friends of ours.  They got "flocked" Sunday night and the kids absolutely loved it!  

Mother's Day Project

For Mother's Day, Andrew told me that he wanted to take me to Amazing Glaze, a local "paint your own" pottery studio.  He wanted to make a coffee mug that had Elisha's foot prints but needed an extra pair of hands.  Now that Andrew is on summer vacation we found time to go.  I painted while he distracted Elisha with a bottle.  I enjoyed it so much that I made coffee mugs and kitchen trivets.  It was a super fun afternoon!  

My Little Man and a Coffee Date

I can't believe how fast Elisha is growing, everyone told me that he would grow up quick and to enjoy every moment.  But I did not think it would be this quick!  I was organizing some things in his room yesterday and I ran across this outfit.  When my Great Aunt Patty first sent it to us it was way too big so I hung it up in the closet and forgot about it but I found it yesterday and now if fits just right! He was so cute and looked like such a little man in his khaki pants and collared shirt :-) 

He wore his handsome outfit out to a coffee date with a friend of mine who had her baby 2 weeks after Elisha.  It was so nice to catch up and have the babies together.  

Many Visitors

Elisha has had many family members and friends come to meet him in the last two months.  Here is the first set of visitors who came to the hospital.  

Visitors the night he was born: 

Nana!

Grandma!

Uncle Kyle

Aunt Erin

Uncle Tim (after much persuasion Superman finally held his nephew)

"Aunt" Hannah

Thank you for coming to see us that night and for making Andrew's dream come true of having a full waiting room anticipating the big gender reveal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7J4fQ9gd8 

Visitors at the hospital over our two day stay! 

Great Poppy and Great Mommom!

Great Grandpa and Great Grandma! 

Poppy and Nonni!

Carol and Rachel Walker

Ernest Family

Josh Ernest

Luke and Faith

Elizabeth and Jonathan Zader

Tina Jaison

*Picture taken by Nicole Renne Newborns

*Picture taken by Nicole Renne Newborns

*Picture taken by Nicole Renne Newborns

We felt so loved by the number of people who came to meet our precious little boy!! 

Watch Me Grow!!

I can't believe that I have a two month old.  See how much he has grown in the last two months! 

1 week: April 19, 2014

1 month: May 12, 2014 
Elisha has grown a lot! He is now 8 lbs 13 oz, and is 21.75 inches.  

2 months: June 12, 2014 

I can't believe how quick he is growing! He is now 12 lbs 6 oz, and 24 inches!! 

Our first ER visit ...

May 4, 2014 

Our first visit to the emergency room happened when Elisha was only three weeks old.  It was a Sunday morning and we were going to the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival.  This was our first long drive with him and entire day out of the house.  I wanted to go because its my favorite sheep show and both of my parents are involved in the festival.  My Dad was there showing animals and my Mom was doing a demo with her spinning wheel.  As I was getting Elisha dressed that morning I noticed that around his belly button it was slightly brown.  I didn't really think about it and we continued to get ready to go.  We got to the festival and walked around a bit, fed Elisha, and got lunch for ourselves. Then around 2:00 I went to change Elisha's diaper--and below is how I found his belly button . . .

Needless to say I began freaking out because belly buttons are not suppose to be gray, orange, black, and blue.  So I call our pediatricians triage line and left a message with a secretary.  Five minutes later I get a call back from a nurse and I explained what we saw and I told her that on Wednesday (four days prior) we had been to the doctor's and they had put silver nitrate on his belly button because his umbilical cord had fallen off but it was still a little gooey.  The nurse said she had not heard of a belly button looking like this before.  She asked me a series of questions like: Does he have a fever? Is he still eating? ... all of these things were normal.  So her response was "If it gets worse go see someone but if not call your pediatrician in the morning to make a sick appointment; but I have never heard of this before."  Well having only been a mom for three weeks I did not like the, "I have never heard of this before."  So needless to say, off to the ER we went.

Once we got all checked in at the ER the nurse came back and said well did you try wiping it off? I said I used a baby wipe on it but nothing happened.  She then got out alcohol wipes and tried those; again nothing happened.  Then the pediatrician came in and asked us 50 questions and I told her all about how on Wednesday they put silver nitrate on his belly button for the third time.  (We went to the doctors a lot in the first two weeks of his life because he was not eating well).  So she examined Elisha and he was acting perfectly normal.  She then said I think its just a skin stain from the silver nitrate so I am going to have the nurse come in and try to wash it off.  I was skeptical because the silver nitrate was put on four days ago and neither of the other times had this result.  I asked her, "Why would this happen this time when it was not a problem before?"  She said it could just be residue that was left over from the treatment so they would try to wash it to see if that took care of it.  The nurse came in and used this sponge and sterile water and tried to get it off and it started coming off a little bit but there was still a lot there.  Then a while later the pediatrician came back in and said, "Well it is coming off so it is definitely a skin stain but this method is not cleaning it well so I'm going to give him a full sponge bath."  So after much scrubbing and a very unhappy baby we left the ER after getting the diagnosis of a skin stain and a treatment plan of a BATH.  Seriously!?!  That is the most expensive bath Elisha will ever have.

So chalk that one up to a new over-reactive mom but seriously his belly button looked horrible and the nurse said, "I've never heard of that before."  I was completely freaking out!

Here is the song that Andrew had stuck in his head the entire time: VeggieTales: BellyButton - Silly Song: http://youtu.be/n5uujMb_hbo