Busy Friday

Friday was my last day at home by myself with Eli. Kind of a bittersweet moment. I guess I'm feeling lots of things right now. I'm looking forward to seeing my little kiddos at school, but I know I'm REALLY going to miss not seeing my little boy all day. I have thoroughly enjoyed staying home with him. At first I thought that there was no way that I would be able to make it 3 months staying home with no one to talk to except him, but now I kind of wish that I had 3 more months. I knew when Josh and I made the decision that I would go back to work that it was going to be hard. I just didn't realize how hard it really was going to be. I'm so glad Josh is the one dropping him off at Tammy's on Monday. That's going to be the longest day ever for me! I know many people will criticize me for going back to work, but it's something I truly enjoy and feel called to do. I am in no way anxious or worried about Eli not being with me. We truly have been blessed with Tammy keeping him. She loves him just as if he belonged to her! Plus, Josh and I feel like it's good for Eli to be around other people besides just Mommy for some socialization. I don't want him to be one of those babies that is only happy with Mommy. I want him to be at ease with whoever (or is it whomever?) is holding/playing with him. Another plus...Tammy has cats and I've read that kids who are exposed to animals early have a less likely chance of developing allergies when they get older. I'll keep my fingers crossed on this one! Josh has really bad allergies and I have zero, so I guess Eli could go either way.

Eli and I didn't really have any major plans for Friday, but I knew that I wanted to go to the church to see our pastor, Dan, put the cross on top of the steeple on the new addition. It was kind of chilly, so I bundled Eli up and we made our way over to the church. When we got there, we saw lots of people from the church. Dan had mentioned the fact that he was doing this to the entire church and lots of people came out to witness this historic event.

Eli and I in front of the new addition to our church.
It's going to look SO good when it is completed!

Eli enjoying the cool weather.
Every time the wind would blow he would catch his breath and gasp...co cute!

Here's the church and here's the steeple....

Dan put all his safety gear on and proceeded to get into the lift that would take him up, up, up.

While Dan was getting ready for his little adventure, Eli and I paused for a photo op with Katie, Julia, and Douglas. Eli and Douglas are about 3 weeks apart. So many couples in our church have had babies this year. It's such a great sign of how our church is growing and growing.

Dan's in the bucket and he's about to start the journey to the top!

We took more pictures while Dan was going up...it took awhile for him to reach the very top.

At the very top!
I bet the view was amazing!

Dan on the phone. I think he was talking to his wife, Nicki.
She was checking on him to make sure he was okay.

I don't know if he really could see everything that was going on up there, but it sure looked like he did! He was laughing and cooing at something high in the sky. I guess the crane looked funny to him.

Or maybe he was thinking, "Hmmm, this blanket looks good enough to eat!"

After the cross was in place, we came home just in time for Josh's lunch break from work. I love the fact that we were able to see him every day for lunch while I was home with Eli. I've already made Josh promise me that he will go by Tammy's during his lunch break to check on Eli. I know Josh really looks forward to seeing his little buddy, so I'm sure he'll be by to check on him often!

The rest of our day went like normal-full of eating, playing, cooing, peeing...you get the idea! I can't believe 3 months has passed by so quickly. Just look at how far Eli has come just in tummy time! Wow! I can't wait to see how much more learns over the next 4 months. He'll be six months (almost seven) by the time school is out. He'll be rolling, teething, and probably scooting or crawling by then! Life with him is so much fun! I love every single minute of it!