The Stages of Growing Elijah!

Our baby boy is 1. How in the world did this past year fly by so quickly?! I will be posting a nice little entry about Elijah's actual party, but in this blog, I just wanted to share pics from Elijah's 1 year to look and see how much he's changed! He's still my little prince charming!

This is our peanut in the womb!

Minutes after Elijah Alexander was born.


Elijah was 1 month old when he went to his first Great Darke County Fair!


2 months old.


3 months... this has got to be one of my favorite pictures!!!!


Happy Thanksgiving!


5 months and blue feet.


My handsome little 6 month old!


Daddy's day to watch me. (7 months)


8 months


King Elijah (9 months)


Fun in the park (10 months)


Elijah's very 1st time watching fireworks. (11 months)


My birthday boy!

Does this chair

make my butt look big?!
This cute chair was in Menards. Elijah loved sitting in it!

I love my swimming pool!

Elijah has a pretty sweet swimming pool. He loves water and he even got his big brother to join him for a swim! They had fun :)

4th of July

Elijah had a great 4th of July! He's 11 months old and loves loves loves the fireworks. We first went and saw some fireworks in Dayton. We were right under them and he loved them soooooooooooooooo much! Then, a few days later, we went and watched the fireworks with Nana and Papaw in Ansonia. While in Ansonia that day, we watched the parade in which Papaw Rider was in and then went to GG's and had a cookout. A busy, but good day.

Also, we got to visit our nieces (Elijah's cousins). They live in Georgia so we haven't seen them since Christmas. It was great getting to see them, but our time together was too short :(

Elijah's Birthday Onesie

Nana & Papaw got Elijah this adorable, personalized, Elmo onesie for his birthday party. I am in love with it!

I'm an aunt, again!

This time, I've become an aunt to my very first, beautiful niece! Her name is Harmony Ann. She was born June 30, 2010 (exactly 11 months after Elijah) at 12:35 p.m. - She was 7 lbs 10 oz.

10 months have come and gone!

So, June seemed to fly by. I cannont believe my son has turned 11 months old. Because I'm slacking yet again, you'll just now be seeing his 10 month pictures. This month, I won a free photo session with a photographer in our area, so the ham got to smile for the camera :) - I hope you enjoy all of his pictures!!!!







Daddy and his boys on Father's Day!!


Elijah and cousin Jacob. Believe it or not, Elijah is 4 months older than Jacob!



Sleepy boy!


This is how much of a stinkpot he is. Sitting on the back of the couch .... and standing on a Bengals tin to reach things on the fridge.


This is one of my favorite pictures of Elijah. It's funny, the reason he's even on the rocking chair is because he climbed up on it when he was playing in his room.




The bros :)

Swagbucks

I'm really starting to get a lot of referrals under me for www.swagbucks.com/refer/OhioMommy

I've included an actual news clip to show you what it's all about and that it's legit. I've been doing it for awhile, but didn't really 'believe' that it was real so I didn't use it as a search engine much, BUT I finally got enough bucks to get $15in Amazon gift cards and found out it's real! I have a friend whose earned $400 in gift cards from the site.

What it is is just like yahoo or google, but it's swagbucks. You use it to search the internet just like you would do on any other site, but this site randomly rewards you with bucks to then cash in for prizes. I'd love for all of you to sign up under me!

Here is the actual news clip if you're interested!

http://www.kmbc.com/video/22714258/index.html

9 months and I'm slacking again..

I really want to keep up with this blog so that it's up to date, but I never get the chance to sit down at the computer for more than 2 minutes at a time to work on one.

Elijah is a climber. He has learned to climb in the window, look out it and wave.


He's such a ham and, a mama's boy!!!!



I celebrated my 1st "Official" Mother's Day. Elijah got me a teddy bear, an adorable card and a mommy shirt. I love this little guy!


Elijah and his buddy, Gracie. They are about 9 months apart. Too cute!


Elijah is the coolest cat on the block. Like his shades?!


Our first bike ride! He loves it!!!!!


This picture is one of my favorites! He always has such a big smile on his face!!!!


Just a few things that Elijah does while I'm at work, sleeps, plays, eat, sleeps, plays, etc....




Elijah picked his very first flower with his great grandma. Isn't it beautiful ;)


Sleepy baby in our bed. He's zonked!


This is Elijah at his big brother's baseball game. Kicked back, relaxing, while drinking his juice/water.


Elijah and grandpa Kocher at Andrew's baseball game.



Daddy took this picture of Elijah in our front yard. I think it's a very cute one!



Chewing on a straw at IHOP. Silly boy.


This is Elijah in his big boy carseat for the 1st time!