It's been too long!

Sorry it has been a month since I have posted new pictures. I have been a bit distracted with my grandpa "Smoke" passing at the beginning of the month and now the last half with a baby who is suffering from some serious seperation anxiety. She just has to have me in the evening time. When I work, it is even worse, she gets all upset as soon as I walk in the door and won't settle down until I hold her. It is quite frustrating for both Tim and I, although I think Tim secretly likes it because he can just say "she wants you" and go about doing his own thing. Lucky him!!! Thus, in the evening when I would have a few minutes to post pictures, I am constantly holding a baby instead. It's a good thing God made them cute!!!

Ellery is 6 months old now and scooching around like crazy. She isn't sitting up so well yet because she just loves to stand. She is always pushing her feet out from under her to stand when we try to have her sit. I think she just wants to hang out with Caleb. She also LOVES to jump in her jumperoo.

Here, Ellery is with a few of my coworkers babies. Maddox is 5 months and Belen is 11 weeks. It was fun to have the babies together, only Matheu is missing-he's two days younger than Ellery.

Here she has her favorite dolly. She loves to roll around on the floor and play with her. Tim says she is wrestling with her.


Caleb and his blankie. He isn't too attached to it except at night, but this day, he had to have it with him everywhere he went. Dad and Caleb out in the snow fort. They actually built quite an impressive fort out in our front yard. Caleb keeps asking where it went, along with his snowman (below). I told him that the snowman moved to Antartica, but now he knows they melted(he doesn't quite get what "melted" means yet).

A little sibling love. He is sweet to her most of the time although sometimes he just hauls off and slaps her. She is funny though, she just looks at him like "what did you do that for???" and then gets over it. She rarely cries unless she wants the momma and then Watch out!!!

My Baby boy is 2!!!

My goodness how the years fly by. Caleb is 2 years old tomorrow and Miss Ellery is 5 months! It is crazy how quickly they grow up! It seems like just yesterday that I was having my little meltdown about not wanting to be pregnant anymore and wanting the next stage of my life to start. And start it has-life with two is super fun, but crazed at times too.



Caleb on February 28th, 2005-2 days old.

Caleb at 1 (actually about one month before.)

And here is the birthday boy at 2!



Ellery's first attempts at sitting up alone-February 13th


Hmmm. I don't think I like these bananas mommy.

Here she is-the five month old 2/22/07!

and while I was trying to take Ellery's picture for her 5 month birthday, Caleb was trying so very hard to get my attention. He kept saying "LOOK AT CALEB!!!" so finally I had to take some pictures of him too. What a little ham!


Mmmm...sweet potatoes are much better than bananas!

Go Heels! (Daddy's favorite basketball team)

Oh, wait, maybe I should give them a thumbs down. Go duke???

Here Caleb is answering the nightly question "Who's crazy?"

Happy 2nd Birthday

Caleb Raymond Leigh. We love you!

We also had a party for me as I will turn 30 on 2/28, but I wasn't very good at taking pictures after Caleb's party. I wanted to visit. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with me. I had a good time and I hope all of you did as well.

Out in the snow on Feb 11th. Ellery's first adventure outside. She didn't squak at all about the cold, but it was one of the warmer, sunny days. It was nice to get outside with the boys.

Caleb did a little face plant in the snow and then he was "ALL DONE!!!"

Here we are outside this past sunday with all the snow. Caleb is getting more used to playing in it and seems to be having a better time. At least this day he didn't have any face encounters with the snow! We tried to build a snowman, but the snow wasn't quite snowman material. Daddy built a big pile instead.

One crazy weekend!

Well, I finally broke down and bought a digital camera, it's my 30th birthday present. I figured that it would indeed be more fun to have one and be able to take tons of pictures of my babies. So now I will be able to post more pictures of them. We would have had tons of fun with it this weekend, but we dealt with our first stomach virus. We did MANY loads of laundry instead! We were able to take some, so here they are.

Look at that head control!

Showing some attitude!

Caleb playing downstairs in his playroom with dad. Hopefully Caleb will be a little more of a handyman than his daddy.

In the play tunnel in the playroom.

On Saturday, Ellery had her first taste of rice cereal. She didn't quite know what to do with it and from the picture below, you can see that it tired her out. We did have some on Sunday, but after that, we stopped because her brother was a little extra work and mom and dad didn't have much energy after dealing with him.

Two tired boys. Poor Caleb even had his first emergency room visit on Sunday night. He was a little needier than usual and wanted to be held for the majority of the weekend, so Ellery got to know her exersaucer pretty well. All is well now though, thankfully!

Big boy bed and a baptism

January 21st Ellery Lynn is baptised at our church. She was the best little girl. She didn't even peep when she got dunked in the water.

Ellery's godparents Uncle Jon and Auntie Janet

Ellery Lynn in my grandpa Gonia's baptismal gown. It was worn by my dad, myself, my brothers and Caleb (along with the rest of the Gonia clan.) It is from 1922 and still in great shape. The little bonnett was mine from my baptism.

Four Months old!!!


Here is my Ellery on her 4 month birthday. She is wearing a sweater that I crocheted for her for her baptism day. I will have so much fun making stuff for her. Hopefully she doesn't get sick of homemade stuff!


Caleb slept in a big boy bed for the first time on Jan 18th. The transition went really well surprisingly....at least so far. It was kind of a sad day for mommy though since it is just one more way that he is growing up!

Ellery didn't like the sling so much until she was faced out. Then she thought it was GREAT!!! She could be with mommy and see everything! Great for me to be able to play with Caleb and hold her too! I love it.


Here, Caleb is having a fun time with finger painting. He seems to enjoy art when he is in the mood.