Lots of changes!

Okay, I'll try to be conscise (not my strength). Scratch the comment in the last post about us having to wake Eli up to eat, he must be going through a growth spurt or something becuase he's wanting to eat as often as every 2 hours during the day and he's definitely not going more than 5 at night :( He's been really fussy when we feed him and would just scream when we tried to burp him so we finally took him in and they say he has reflux. Very common in babies so they gave us some medicine but it's supposed to take 1-2 weeks to begin working. Poor guy! We've decided he's old enough now to go out so we've been to dinner, friends houses, and for a walk on the Monon Trail. It's wonderful to finally be able to go places with him. I've finally decided I don't have to be in the room with him at all times (that leaving him doesn't make me a bad mom) so tonight I put him down at about 9:30 and turned on the monitor and left the room...FREEDOM! Usually I'd try to sleep too but just needed some time for myself. I did the dishes, read a magazine, and thought I'd update the blog. Here are some pictures of his first real bath, he liked it...at first.

So if you haven't realized by now I'm not the best at keeping up with my blog. And I'm more in to posting pictures than blabbing about the baby but I suppose some of you may want to hear our stories anyway:) Eli is doing great. He makes all sorts of funny noises and faces, he squeaks all the time and does really good elephant and terradactyl impressions. Aside from his squeaks and grunts he's a really good sleeper. Several nights we've had to wake him up after 4 1/2 hours to feed him. At this age he's not supposed to go longer than that without eating but by 1 month if he's willing he can sleep through the night so we're anxious to see if he'll be up for that, wouldn't that be awesome?! Cross your fingers for us;) We had a photographer come to the house Tuesday to take his pictures and they turned out great. We should have them by the end of next week but there's probably some copyright issue about me posting them here so we'll see about that. They're adorable though! Well, that's all for now. I think I'm going to try to squeeze in a nap.

New Pictures

Here are some more shots of our adorable little Eli. He likes to play (during the brief moments when he's awake) and loves to sleep on his daddy's chest. He's also already a Colts fan:)

Baby Eli

Eli finally came to see us at 7:30 pm on Tuesday August 5th. We went in at 7:15 am to be induced and 12 hours (and several needle sticks) later had the most beautiful baby boy we've ever seen. They had to try 5 times to get the epidural (that means 2 numbing shots and 1 huge epidural needle sticking me in the back multiplied by 5) but finally they got it and boy was it worth it! I'm in the lucky 1% who gets what's called a "wet tap" with the epidural which means they went in too far and punctured something that leaks out spinal fluid. It causes really bad migranes for about 8 days but again, it was all worth it. Okay, enough about that, here he is in all his glory. He had quite the cone head at first!

The Baby Room!

Well here they are, the long awaited pictures of the baby room!! Eli will be here any day now and

his room is ready to greet him:)

More Showers

Today I had another shower, this time with friends from work thrown by Debby, arguably the best cook in the entire office. Needless to say the food was delicious! In addition to friends from work the "grandma's" were also invited. You'll notice Malena in the picture but my mom wasn't able to make it. This week she fell off the ladder while picking cherries from a tree in their mini-orchard and landed square on her knee:( She can't get around very well but did still manage to make the cherry pie! It was so much fun seeing people from work outside the office and I was really touched by how many people were able to come.

Last weekend Erin, Kelley, and Tara hosted a couples shower for us. Finally Ryan got to open some presents! We grilled out, ate cake from Concannons (the best bakery in the world for those of you who've never been to Muncie, IN), sculpted babies out of playdough, and of course opened gifts. Everyone contributed to a very special gift, an "advice book" where each person wrote some words of wisdom/encouragement for us. We've loved reading thorough it. The excitement of the day came when Alisha realized the diamond had falled out of her engagement ring and we were all down on all fours tearing up Steve and Tara's house (all I found was a toy cell phone and a couple pennies) until she finally found it in her purse:) Thanks to all for making this such a great shower, we feel blessed to have such amazing friends.

Ford Family Shower

Saturday June 7th my Mom hosted a family shower. We had relatives from both my Mom's side and my Dad's side there as well as Ryan's mom and sister and a family friend. It was great to see everyone. The house was decked out in a jungle theme with stuffed monkey's, lions, and elephants everywhere, most of which came back with me to decorate Eli's room! Everyone had a wonderful time. Special thanks to my Mom for making this such a perfect day and to my aunts for all their help :)