A Day Outdoors!

Sunday was so beautiful we decided to spend the entire day outside. We started by heading to Franklin for the Main Street Arts and Crafts festival. It was really fun and we got to meet a lot of very talented people, eat brats and listen to some great music. And of course spend time together!

We've been putting off washing the cars for weeks now so we decided to continue our day outside washing my car inside and out. While we were doing that Kingston enjoyed watching us from inside his pack and play! He had a blast being outside and of course tossing things out so we would have to pick them up, then laughing at us!

And since we were already outside we decided it would be a great night to have a mini picnic on the front lawn. What a wonderful weekend!

And then today for the first time ever Kingston got to experience riding in the car facing forward! It's a little premature since he STILL doesn't weigh 20 pounds (we are currently at 19.4) but he's 13 months old and starting to get really bored with staring at the back seat so I made a judgment call and turned him around.

Apparently riding forward makes for a tired baby!

Happy Earth Day!

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! That's the motto we're trying to follow around here and although we slack at times we are trying to get better and raise a more environmentally conscious little dude.

Around here it's beginning to look a lot like Spring which means yard work!

Yes he did all the yard work including mowing the lawn with Kingston on his back while I was at work! I love these two guys! Hope you all are having a great week!

Rugby...simple, football...piece of cake...1 week in Toddlers tough!

This is Kingston's first official week in the Young Toddlers Class at daycare and boy these kids are no joke. In a full year in the infants class we signed one incident report and that was when Kingston was learning to stand up while holding on to things and he fell and bumped his head. This week we have had 2 incidents! One scratch on the face and a bite on the arm. I told Kingston he better hurry up and choose sides so he'll have some protection :)!!

If you look really close you can see his bite mark on his arm in this picture!! Poor little guy didn't even cry but all day today he's been trying to bite me so I think he's learning bad habits :)!

This week has been pretty low key. Alfred was really sick for most of it so when I wasn't at work we just hung around here. We went to our friend Rosanna's last night and hung out with some of our friends and today we went to the park to play before the rain comes rolling in again. Since Kingston is finally out growing his front carrier that we use all the time our friend Lisa gave us this awesome baby backpack so of course we had to test it out and we love it! Thank you so much for giving this to us Lisa!

Thanks for checking in with us this week! ! We're about to get our food off the grill, hope you enjoy this beautiful Saturday night! It's great to be an Eller!

Another wonderful Easter Present!

Last Easter my water broke and the next day Kingston was born. This Easter weekend I went home to visit my family and my sister worked all weekend trying to get Kingston to walk. He never took that first step. Then today we've hung out at home all day because Alfred is running a 102 degree temp so I've spent the day working on getting Kingston to walk and all of a sudden it all clicked and it's official we have a walker!

We're still a little shaky but I think he'll have the hang of it in no time!! Hope your Easter was as wonderful as ours!

Well Kingston your name does start with a K!

We went to see our friends Lori, Jason and Ian this Saturday where Kingston took it upon himself to take a letter out of Ian's play mat! Just so happened it was the letter K! We of course think it's because our little boy is brilliant!
Hopefully I'll have time to post some pics of Kingston and Laney playing over the last few days but I'm heading to West Virginia for my first 6 hour road trip without Alfred since Kingston's been born so I have a lot to get ready tonight!