What JOY . . .

Loving up our Elijah. He is truly our JOY!











Elijah hanging out on the stairs . . .again! He has now taught himself to go up and down the stairs.













In his room riding his pony from Aunt Annette. Daddy pushes Eli around on his favorite pony as he squeals with delight.










Daddy and Elijah playing the drums. Notice what Elijah is using for his drumsticks - a wooden spoon. Dad give me back my drum sticks!:-)












I had to laugh . . . as I opened up the mail Dusty our cat had been quite vocal about wanting to eat. I watched in amazement as Elijah went to the pantry door and you guessed it opened it and the cats rushed in to their cat food bag.

Elijah is a piece of work to put it mildly! He makes us laugh so much with his little personality which has proven to be so JOYFUL! He is now walking I guess that is what you would call it - sort of like a drunken sailor but walking still. It is the cutest thing he will walk about 6 steps and fall down dust himself off and he is back at it. He has a great sense of humor and can be found laughing but sometimes we can't figure out what at but it makes us laugh. He is really talking now and says Mama, dada, itty (for kitty), and hi. That's all we can figure out for now. He is saying alot more with passion and can even be found pointing his finger to make his point but we just can't figure out what he is talking about but we enjoy answering him and keeping a good conversation going. He still loves giving Mommy kisses. When I ask for a kiss he holds my face real tight and gives me big wet kisses and squeals with delight! We can't believe that in two weeks our son will be one years old! When I think back over the year one word comes to mind . . . JOY!