elises tricks and nathan fun

little little elise is quite difficult when it comes to eating these days! she does not want baby food. she wants what everyone else is eating, especially shelby. however, she still has no teeth. she still has the cutest, toothless, baby smile!

actually, that may not be entirely accurate. she does like to play with her baby food. she discovered a pretty cool trick recently, and today she mastered the art of spraying her food. she sprays it and laughs and laughs! i am really trying not to encourage it, but when she laughs real hard it is so funny! so, today i had a nice even spray of squash in my hair, on my face, and on my clothes. it probably looked like it was airbrushed on :P

she has also started squealing! ugh! she belts out this shrilling, brain rattling, echoes around on the inside of your skull, scream when she is crying. i have to nip this one quick. no, she doesn't rival elizabeth, yet.

i took shelby and elise to the library today. we used to go a lot to get books for nathan for school, but he's been stuck on the iliad and the odyssey for awhile. plus, i think shelby was too young to really appreciate it at the time. today we went to the main columbus metropolitan library, it was so cool! they have a huge section for kids, a tree house, and a theatre-style story time room. i am looking forward to taking them to story time there.

i haven't had many updates for nathan recently. he was out of town off and on over the last couple of weeks. first he was in warren, ohio with my mom and bob, and then he was with parish for parish's wedding. he had a great time at both, but now he is back home and has been locked in his room for the last several days working on getting it clean!

ya know, i should have him start a blog so he can tell everyone what he's been up to. i would have loved to see what he would have written about his vacation in warren. he got to ride in a manure spreader in one parade and got to drive a tractor in another! he got to help with cows at the trumbull county fair, helped a family friend plant flowers around her house, and worked his tail off at mom and bob's house! nathan is very proud that his grandma drives tractors and he loves this kind of work, so he will be talking about it for quite awhile! here are some pictures from the first parade.