Catch up for Zoe

Zoe seems to be getting bigger every day. She is the happiest baby! Everyone always comments that she is always smiling, never cries, always seems so happy, etc. She really lights up when Eli is around.

Zoe can now sit up unassisted. Eli always puts a pillow behind her in case she falls back (such a protective brother). She has started to army crawl, using her forearms to drag herself across the floor, she doesn't quite have the concept of using her knees yet. And she rolls, fast.


Last week we moved her from her infant seat to the "big girl" convertible car seat. She's still has to face backwards, but she was outgrowing the infant seat and was getting way too heavy for me to carry.

Catch up for Eli

We've had a few fun and important things going on around the Tomasino house the last couple of weeks. Johnny's brother Cesar cleaned Eli's teeth in San Antonio, but he went to the dentist for his first "official" cleaning last week. He sat perfectly still and didn't twitch at all (hopefully this means he does not have my distaste for the dentist's office). Dr. Allman told us that he has perfectly spaced teeth, which means when his baby teeth fall out, his permanent teeth should come in nice and straight. Yeah, looks like no braces in the future! He got a new toothbrush, toothpaste and a water bottle from the treasure chest. He now brushes his teeth every day after lunch "because I went to the dentist".












Eli has also started taking showers by himself. He washes his hair and his body, except his back, which I reach in and wash. He has taken showers with Johnny or me since he was only a few months old, and most of the time prefers them to baths. I am so proud of him, but a little sad to reach these types of milestones because it reminds me how much he is growing up.
He has also been playing basketball on a city team. It is a six week long program that teaches the basics of basketball. The first four weeks they rotate through skill groups and then the last two weeks they will play games. I'm not sure how or if they will lower the goals, but hopefully they will so they can score. However, tonight on his shooting rotation, Eli made a basket. He kind of granny shot it, but it went in. He came running over to me at the end of practice and asked if I had seen him. I told him I had and that I was so proud of him. His response was, "I have wanted to make a bastick (basket) my whole life mommy! Yesssss!!"

One more thing that has started around here this week is that Eli has learned how to change the channel on the remote by pressing the numbers. Yes, Eli has learned to recognize his numbers 1 through 10. I can tell him which ones to push and he goes in the other room all by himself and puts it on his channels. He told me yesterday that he kept changing the channel with the up and down buttons, then pressing the numbers again to "practice". Maybe this should be a sign that he's been watching too much TV. Oh well, I'm proud that he's learning his numbers :)

Bug bug go away!!

Seeing my child sick is one of my least favorite things in this world. Last night Eli told Johnny that his stomach was hurting. He sent him to the bathroom and I went to check on him. He asked me to pick him up and hold him. About 10 seconds later, he threw up all over me. I had just gotten out of the shower and still had a towel on my head. So, I got to have 2 showers yesterday. Johnny, being the good daddy that he is, came and cleaned up the mess while Eli and I got cleaned up. Eli immediately said he felt better and was singing and playing in the shower. About 2 hours later, Johnny was getting him settled in our bed to watch a show, when Eli said his stomach was hurting again. And I'll be darned if he didn't throw up again, this time all over my bed. Luckily, Johnny got the comforter pulled back (I just had it cleaned last week). He also kept it from getting on the carpet. However, it did get all over my sheets and soaked through to the mattress. Again, he immediately felt better, and got to take another shower. I put baking soda all over the mattress. Johnny slept with Eli and I slept the first half of the night on the couch and the second half sideways on the foot of the bed. Eli also woke up with leg cramps and had Johnny rub his legs. Zoe woke up at 3:30, because she went to bed around 7:30. Luckily she went right back to sleep after a bottle. She's the only one who got any good sleep. Anyway, whatever it was is now gone (hopefully). He's been fine today. He was very hungry however, because all I let him have last night was a piece of bread and saltine crackers. The grape Pedialyte, disgusting by the way.

Misc. December Stuff

Okay, so we checked out one of those I Spy kind of books from the library and Eli loves it. Johnny, Eli and I would sit on the couch and try to do one page a night. It's actually pretty hard. One night we were bored and decided to create our own. Can you spy Eli?



He's been dying to make a spoon stick to his nose. He had been trying to do it with a big spoon even though I told him it would work better with a small one. He has seen it on one of his shows. He was so proud when he finally got it and asked me to take a picture of him. How could I say no?



So, I've mentioned before that Eli loves to help with the laundry. Well a couple of weeks ago I was switching the clothes from the washer to the dryer and I asked Eli to get all the laundry from my room for me. I waited and waited and he never came back to the utility room. I figured that he had gotten sidetracked by the TV or something so I went to look for him. I found him in this exact position in the middle of the living room floor. He says to me, "Mommy I needed a break. This thing is heavy. Maybe you could just pull me the rest of the way." He's such a ham, and no I didn't pull him the rest of the way :)