Happy Valentine's Day from Zue-Zue

The Saturday before Valentine's Day, we went over to Zue-Zue's house for supper. When we got there she gave Eli his Valentine's Day present. He was so excited to open it and discover that he had a fun new toy!



We went right to work and opened the box to assemble it. It didn't take long and soon Eli was playing and building things to his heart's content.




Daddy couldn't help himself and ended up playing with the toy as well. I think he enjoyed it just as much as Eli did!



Here are some of Josh's creations. He's usually not very right-brain oriented so I was very impressed with his building skills!

A windmill

An Adirondack chair and footstool

All that building and creating left Eli very hungry so Zue-Zue found some raisins for Eli, which he promptly put in his handy dandy raisin holder. A little background on this particular container...During the summer of 20o3, Josh and I were surprised with a Caribbean sailing trip from his dad. We flew to an island named Tortola and then spent a week sailing around to the various islands on a boat (Josh's dad was our captain!). On our last day there, we went back to Tortola and did some shopping. They had lots of wooden vases, bowls, and trinkets that were locally made and we picked up several of these things for our family and friends back home. Zue-Zue ended up with this bowl to be used as a decoration in her house. Well, in the past three years this bowl has proven to be more useful as a raisin holder. =) Jonah, Nicki's son, loved raisins just like Eli does. Anytime he visited Zue-Zue, she would give him raisins and he would put his raisins in this bowl...just like Eli! Who knew that this bowl would prove to be so useful to not just one toddler but two!

Later that night, Eli was showing everyone how well he knows his body parts, when he got stumped on finding his belly button because he was wearing a onesie. Mommy fixed this and undid his onesie so he could find his belly button. Daddy thought he'd be funny and snapped the onesie on the OUTSIDE of Eli's pants. It was funny to look at that's for sure! Eli knew he was cute no matter what though, so he didn't let this minor fashion faux pas bother him at all. What a cutie!