Eli goes to Maggie's

Eli made his first of many trek's to Maggie's Herb Farm on SR13 today along with Molly (his nanny) and Victoria:




Mom is fitting in a few last things before returning to work on Monday. On tap for tomorrow is a trek to PV Soap to pick up some oils. Stayed tuned for Eli's first soap making experience!

Genora's Birthday Extravaganza

And Eli had a ball! He got to try out his jungle themed bouncy seat at his grandparents and LOVED it!


He also got to try out the desk his granpa got for him.... looks like he's got a little more growing before he can really use it.



Everyone got a little cake and ice cream:


He spent some quality time with Antigone this afternoon, recovering from last night's festivities resting in the late afternoon sun:

A few of Eli's Views

In his room

Eli's Day Today

Must be nice just to hang around with your pals all day...

Eli's First Overnight Trip Away from Home

Eli had his first overnight trip away from home Friday. We drove to Fanning Springs (between Gainesville and the Gulf) for Genora's birthday extravaganza.

Jimmy started a custom to take Genora away to a state park or hiking for her birthday when they started dating. Thus far, they've been to Torreya State Park, Wakulla Springs and Stephen Foster State Park. Genora thought it only right to continue the custom and include Eli.

We headed out to Fanning Springs early Friday afternoon. Along the way we stopped at Satchel's Pizza in Gainesville

http://www.satchelspizza.com



Eli's heard so much about where Uncle John works


and about how amazed Jimmy is that Steve (Satchel) has been so successful with a pizza place in a business park in Gainesville. He LOVED his tour of Lightning Salvage, especially the wind chimes, and surrounding sites (like the green house).


We got to Fanning Springs later that afternoon and hiked about 1/3 mile from the cabin to the spring head. Along the way we saw several native trees and palms, buckeyes, butterweed and lots of birds and squirrels.

Eli saw his first manatee at the spring, well, kind of... he was asleep. The butterweed was in full bloom in the wetlands around the spring and it looked very pretty against the bright green of new growth on the cypress and other trees.

We headed back to the cabin and enjoyed the traditional chicken and dumplings with veg-all from the Dollar Store (dad will explain to Eli later why he treats mom so well). Eli got to lay in the middle of the living room floor on a pallet stark naked after a shower with Jimmy...he LOVES being naked! Jimmy and Genora had fun later that evening with a tick check. Ever find a seed tick (or any tick for that matter) on you?! It's frightening and will make you search frantically to make sure there are no more.

The next morning, we packed up and headed to Manatee Springs to check things out. The spring head there was much larger and the spring run out to the Suwannee was beautiful! We saw 6 manatees and some stained, dingy underwear on our way along the spring run.

Eli even got to ride a manatee... well, kind of:

Welcome to our blog!

We've put this together to keep track of the special and mundane aspects of our day to day lives and how it's changed since Eli came into our world two short months ago. Seems like he's been here with us so much longer than that, and I guess technically he was, though still in utero.

It's really hard to believe Eli's already 2 months old! He had his two month well baby check up today... he's already 12lbs, 1oz and 23 inches long! Go breast milk!