I know, I know...

So it's been a while. I guess my time management skills need some improvement...

OK, here's what you've been missing:



Each night before we put Elliott to bed, we sing lullabies, read a story, and say prayers. The other night I had Jacob get started without me and I walked in on him singing Erasure as his night-time lullaby. I guess he's getting started early, nothing wrong with that...



He was laughing so hard before we started recording him!! He just loves to get lost in the lens I guess... :)



And another video of him being camera shy. :) He's cute though, so I'm okay with putting videos up of him just moving and squirming. He's just so awesome. :)

The other day we were getting ready for church and we sat Elliott on our bed while we were getting dressed. He's normally just fine if we just prop him up with some pillows, but lately he's been wanting to sit up even more than we let him. If he's reclining even a little bit he uses his little tummy muscles to pull himself up so he's just straight up and down (he must get this from his Grandma Ashley... I've been in a car seat after her, she certainly isn't a recliner! :) ) He did this the other day and fell over, but he didn't start crying. He was too busy looking at what we were doing.
This was the first time we had dressed him in an actual church outfit, so I wanted to record it as well as I could, hence all the pictures of him on our bed. :)

The other day Taz and Elliott were playing together. E is at that age where he likes to just look at people, and Tamsine looooves other babies, so they have a blast when they get to play. Elliott was just laying on the floor and Taz crawled over to him with her cute little Army crawl (just like her daddy) and laid down and played with him for a while, it was super cute.

Grandma Ashley wanted some FBI pictures, and he certainly fits the shirt!!

In this last one you can get a glimpse of Albi (Jacob named him... if you don't already know Flight of the Conchords, there's a reason for the name. We want to teach our child tolerance). E loves Albi, it's his favorite. It plays Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and teaches him how to say "good morning" and "good night" in French and Spanish. He's already liking the educational toys, that little genius man of mine. :)

Ladies and gentlemen, a new development since I started this blog post yesterday: Elliott now rolls over BY HIMSELF!!



OK, blogger won't let me add anything else, so I guess until next time! :)

Conference Waffles!!

It's time for General Conference, and that means one thing in the Christensen household: Conference Waffles! Yum!! We get together as a family and make belgian waffles with berries and whipped cream. It's even better than it sounds.

Are you wondering why we look so terrible? It's the little guy's fault. He's being punished for not letting us sleep by not getting his face on the blog this time (although you get a good view of Elliott's little duck tail. We're growing it out). I wasn't there for the first half of the morning session, Jacob so kindly let me sleep in. Let me tell you, I needed it and then some! Oh well, such is life... To think he still has 27 more of these little buggers to go... (Teeth, I mean).

At least there were the waffles.

Just kidding...

You know how in my last post I said that even though Elliott was teething, he was good for the most part? He must have read it and wanted to make it a little harder on me. All I'm going to say is this morning I thanked my lucky stars for two specific things:

For Elliott:


For mommy:

I guess I've been fooled...

Normally, the Orkin man is my friend. Bugs are fine, as long as they aren't in my house. Today, however, he is my nemesis.

So last night my dad tells me that Orkin is going to be coming by around 10:00 to take care of a little centipede problem we've been having for a bit. Cool. "That's perfect," I think to myself. "I have plans to go out to lunch with some friends at noon." April Fools!! (You can see where this is going, can't you?)

Jacob and I straighten up the apartment that night and I wake up to get ready around 9:30. After all, I like it when he comes to get rid of the bugs, I don't want him to know what I smell like before my shower. :) Then, I wait. Elliott wakes up at 10 from his morning nap, and we wait. at 11:00 he falls asleep again so I wait. And wait. And wait.

I was so looking forward to seeing these two friends, Debbie and Janette. I used to work with them and haven't seen them in months. Debbie hasn't even seen Elliott, not ever! :( So I called at around 11:30 to tell them that it wasn't going to happen. And here it is, 12:50, and there's a knock on my door... Finally he gets here. What's the moral of the story? Never count on the Orkin man to come on time when it's April Fools Day and you have plans.

So that's one prank that has been played on me. Here's another one: Elliott's been teething (I know! I'm freaking out... He's my baby!!) but it really hasn't been too bad. I wanted to show my son off and let everyone know that he's still my happy boy even though he's in pain.



Not five minutes later, here he is again:



It's as if he's saying, "Fooled you, mom! You only thought I was in a good mood and this teething thing has been a breeze... Mwa ha haaaa..."

I know, I know... He's not really that fussy in the second video. He's such a good baby! He has his bad times (like right now, as I'm trying to get him to go to sleep), but for the most part he's still his happy wonderful self. :) Night time is another story all together though; can anyone tell me why he seems like he's in so much more pain during the night?

Anyway, I hope all your April Fools day is awesome. Let me know what sort of awesome tricks you played on people, or tricks that were played on you! I'm still trying to come up with the perfect one to play on Jacob... Maybe something about his Star Wars costume being destroyed in some freak fire...