Elliott Advent Calendar: December 25th December 25, 2008

Elliott awoke to a stocking full of goodies and presents under the tree. Unfortunately, Santa had trouble fitting Elliott’s new wagon into his sleigh, so he is making a stop on Friday. Santa ate the cookies and had a shot of the Dalmore that Elliott left him and the reindeer chomped on some carrots. We [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 24th December 25, 2008

Elliott is asleep with visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. Earlier tonight his cousins Bea and Margaret (who live just blocks away) paid him a visit. Beatrice was very concerned that Elliott get a present to open on Christmas Eve, so Mr. E got his first chance to rip up some paper. I [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 23rd December 24, 2008

Elliott is super cute in his new knit hat. He’s not a big fan of hats right now — he always pulls them off immediately after we put them on. I am not sure if he just thought this one was super stylin’ or if the shiny wrapping paper had him distracted enough. My bet [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 22nd December 23, 2008

Memories don’t come easy. Sometimes you have to roll out a strange, sticky substance multiple times in order to have the perfect canvas on which to capture your son’s handprint. And sometimes, it takes several attempts to get said son’s hand to imprint in a somewhat satisfactory way. But we did it! And now, Elliott [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 21st December 22, 2008

Elliott was sitting in his high chair at the dinner table tonight and started grabbing at his sweater. We thought maybe he wanted to take it off — he hasn’t enjoyed the bundle up part of the snow storm. But he kept yanking at his sweater and looking up at us with anticipation. Uncle Dal [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 20th December 21, 2008

I can only hope that the rest of Mr. E’s life is this charmed. You see, he doesn’t realize that we don’t get a beautiful snow like this every year. As far as he is concerned, this is what Portland does in December. We took some shots of Elliott in his first real snow today [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 19th December 20, 2008

Well, Elliott still doesn’t really *eat* food, but he does *play* with it. At dinner, I gave him some Cheerios to see if he might consider putting them in his mouth. I showed him by eating one myself and then he stuck one in his mouth for a second. But then his magnanimous side won [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 18th December 19, 2008

Elliott’s cousin Beatrice has generously lent us her rocking chair. And just today, Elliott discovered it. He tried to pull himself up onto it, so to avoid a spill, Mom picked Elliott up and sat him in the chair right next to the Christmas tree so he could play a bit. He obliterated a candy [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 17th December 18, 2008

What do you do with a drunken sailor…when he gets into your recycling and finds an empty bottle of rum? Well, in our house you take a picture. Elliott is a big fan of the recycling area now that he is mobile. Tons of fun stuff that mom and dad never intended for him to [...]

Elliott Advent Calendar: December 16th December 17, 2008

I have seen many cute things over the past 9 months, but nothing melts my heart more than catching my 2 guys snoozin’ together. One of these is of Peat and Elliott asleep in our glider downstairs; another is of them catchin’ some z’s in the overstuffed rocker in Elliott’s room. And the third one [...]