We went to the temple last weekend. Per tradition, we took a picture of Eli there for his first time.
For some reason, she doesn't look like how I remember her looking in this picture... And here's Sam.
Eli had his four-week check-up last week. he was 10 pounds, 15 ounces. He was 22 inches. That puts him at 75% for weight, 75% for height, and 75% for head circumference. He's very well proportioned and he has the smallest head of all our kids.
He's a great sleeper at night. He goes to bed between 10 and 11, wakes up to eat around 2 or 3, then goes right back to sleep, waking up again between 5 and 7 to eat. Then he goes back to sleep for another hour or two. The trouble is that he grunts like CRAZY when he's falling asleep and it makes it hard for us to sleep. (He's in our room and I am hoping to keep him there until after Dan's parents visit so we can wait to set up the real crib in the guest room. Once we set up the crib, that room will be kind of cramped.) Dan has gone out to sleep on the couch a few times because it's too noisy. Eli's getting used to being lugged around wherever we go. I feel bad that he takes so many cat naps in his car seat instead of his crib. I guess that's what happens with the third.
The other night Sam thought it would be fun to play a new game called "dark football." He handed Dan a nerf football, then turned off all the lights in the bedroom and made it super dark. He told Dan to throw him the ball. Dan did and it hit Sam in the face. Sam started to cry and ask, "Why did you DO that??" That was the end of dark football.
Afton wants to be a detective when she grows up. The other day there was a crazy white plume of smoke in the middle of the road making my visibility just a few feet. I have no idea what caused it, but it was clearly something car related. Afton deduced that it was caused by a restaurant cooking their food too long and burning it. She's well on her way to solving problems.
We took Eli to church for the first time last week and it worked out really well. I teach singing time in the primary, so I was worried that he would need to eat while I was teaching, but I fed him between the junior primary and senior and it worked out great. Here's hoping that happens today, too! Everyone at church (and everywhere we go) comments on his hair.
We can never remember what we do for Valentine's Day (we usually don't go out or anything, so I wanted to write it down this year, even though we didn't really do anything out of the ordinary).Yesterday for Valentine's, Dan worked from home and went to an eye appointment. The kids and I cleaned the downstairs. Sam went to a birthday party. I took a nap. We got pizza for dinner. Dan got the kids those giant Hershey's kisses. His parents used to get him one every year, so he's carrying on the tradition. And we watched Dateline. The husband did it, of course.
