Today

It is just me and Eli spending a quiet rainy fall day inside today. He is sitting on my lap as I post this, actually. He has been super sleepy this morning, so I exploited it and took these pictures of him before we move the couch out of the big studio room. Another one of the knit stripey sleepers that I bought for him before he was born. Here he is modeling it.










We are celebrating the fact that he slept from 8:15 or so last night until 5:45 this morning without a single peep. Go Eli! For the past few weeks he has been about 50/50 whether he wakes up once or twice to eat in that same 10 hour period, so this is a big deal. We hope it is a sign of things to come.

Christmas in October

The Mohr Family Christmas was Sunday and it was a really, really nice afternoon with everybody together.

A quickly organized big group shot of everybody. Derek is propping Grace up - he had to wake her up her to be in the picture. She had fallen asleep in an armchair in the midst of all the activity.

My little patient

Charlotte was home sick from school yesterday. A bonus for her - her Aurora costume came yesterday, too. She put it on right away. I was happy to find a princess dress that was long sleeved and full enough for her to wear something under it if it is as cold on Halloween as it usually is.



I cropped this one a little funny so that you can see the very edge of my beautiful wallpaper with rocking horse border. All around my family room. At the ceiling and at the chair rail. It's really something.

She made herself useful by tickling Eli to try to get a picture of him smiling. He smiles all the time and it is adorable. Once I duck behind the camera, though, he stops.



Not technically a great image, but look at that little face. I love this one. I was telling Derek the other day how hard I have to strain to imagine that such a little peanut is going to grow into this big guy and be taller than me and everything.

All three

(but not in the same frame...still working on it)

The girls walking in our new backyard last week. We can cut through the empty lot behind us to get to the playground. I like how they are carrying the basket together.




Together on one of those ride-on playgorund toys that have been around forever.



One of the boy from inside this morning. I intended to take some sleeping pictures, but he had other ideas. I like this one, though, so I'll overlook it this time.




I think he looks like Gracie did at this age. I had a hard drive crash and I still haven't rebuilt the data from archives yet, so I had to crop this out of my website. I think there's a resemblance.

Happiness is

taking a nap on Daddy.




I need to work on some pictures of the girls, too. It's been awhile since I tortured them with the camera. They're growing all the time.