As you can see Elijah’s two bottom teeth have come in. They are so cute! His top two are working their way in as well but I haven’t been able to grab a shot of them yet. He has started grinding them together. It’s an awful sound, like nails on a chalkboard. I hope it doesn’t last. 
We are enjoying all of the drool and discomfort that accompanies teething. The best solutions I have found are good teething toys, and a cold bottle of juice or pedialyte. He loves to gnaw on the cold nipple with his gums.
Teeth!
March 7th, 2010Elijah Scooting
February 26th, 20109 months old
February 26th, 2010I have officially become a bad blogger. I am so sorry. Here are Elijah’s 9 month pictures 16 days late. What can I say, we’ve been busy. His bottom two teeth are about halfway in now. He’s scooting forward all over the place on his elbows and belly and has the rug burns to prove it. Every once in a while the knees go up but he hasn’t figured out how to get his hands up too. He can pull him self up to standing in his crib but usually falls over. He loves bath time. As soon as I go near the tub he leans over to get in. His new favorite thing is to splash the water. He likes to hit tables or any hard surface with his hands like he’s drumming well the same goes for the surface of the water. The progression of pictures is a great example of how these sessions go.
Sitting nicely in my chair with my monkey. Yay everyone is looking at me.
Hmm, what’s this? A monkey, hurray!
Come here you monkey.
I’ve got a monkey hand.
Bored with the monkey and ready to explore.
Ooh a table!
Baby’s First Ski Trip – Sort of
February 15th, 2010In January we went on the Zimmerman family annual ski trip to Breckenridge over Martin Luther King Jr weekend. Here Aaron and I are getting ready to load the lift.
Rachael and cousin Alex on a lift.
Aaron and I on lift.
Skiing down a mountain.
Elijah with uncle Mark.
While we were all skiing Elijah spent his time hanging with Grandma Janet.
And sleeping in funny positions.
Elijah and Grandma Janet and the Rockies!
With Aunt Rachael and the baby blanket she made him!
8 months old
January 19th, 2010Elijah is 8 months old! He is very close to crawling and loves to play on the floor and roll around. The boy loves piano but i’ll do an entire post about that separately. He is so curious about the world around him. He loves to pound on things with his hands, everything becomes a drum, tables, books, laptops you name it. He is saying Mamamamamamama and Dadadadadada and Bababababa all the time but I don’t think he’s made the connection yet with the meaning. He continues to be a happy baby most of the time and we are enjoying every minute.
Elijah’s First Christmas
January 19th, 2010Yeah, I know it’s January 18th. We’ve been busy and i’ve been a bad blogger. Better late than never. We had a wonderful Christmas holiday this year. It started in Kentucky where we traveled for a funeral for Aaron’s great uncle Don Henrickson. Here is Elijah with Grandma Janet.
Plato came with us too for the holidays. Aaron is trying to teach him how to be a horse.
There was another baby in the family who was only 4 days older than Elijah. They kept trying to take each others pacifiers, it was adorable.
Here is Elijah with his Great, Great Aunt Janice Henrickson.
Grandma kisses
Elijah and Grandpa Guy and second cousin Zach Ergo.
Then we headed to Bowling Green, Ohio where Aaron’s parents live. Here is a shot of Elijah getting a bath in the sink.
Daddy kisses!
We celebrated Christmas at the Zimmerman’s before heading up to Michigan. We plopped Elijah down in front of the tree and he immediately decided to take a taste.
This is an adorable stocking hat that Grandma Janet knitted for him. It came with matching mittens too!
Dinner break! Elijah is also showing off his little booties that Grandma Janet made him.
These are matching outfits that Janet found for Grandpa Guy and Elijah, it reads “Little Guy” and “Big Guy”
Here they are sporting their new duds!
Another bath with Mr. Turtle.
Snuggling with mommy.
The boy cousins, Zach and Alex Ergo and Aaron and Elijah.
On Christmas Eve we headed up to Saginaw, Michigan to Elijah’s Great Grandparents (Carol and Jack Ergo) home. Here is Elijah with GG Jack Ergo.
And with GG Carol.
Aaron and his sisters Rachael on the left and Emily in the middle.
The Christmas morning tradition in the Ergo home is for all of the kids to wait at the top of the stairs. Everyone runs down at once to find the pile of gifts Santa brought them.
This was Elijah’s pile from Santa.
He of course liked the paper the most.
Baby’s first piano!
Little Santa Elijah with the big guy
The day after Christmas we headed up to East Tawas, Michigan to visit Grandpa Guy’s parents. Here is Elijah with his Great Grandpa Jack Zimmerman.
And with Great Grandma Jane.
And with his Great Uncle John.
Back in Saginaw GG Jack Ergo showed Elijah how to play the indian drum.
Back in Bowling Green, we took Elijah to his first storytime at the Libray. He loved the bear puppet!
Random naked picture. He LOVES to be naked!
And for the last picture Elijah attempting to crawl. He’s getting closer! We had a wonderful trip and made great memories for our baby’s first Christmas!
7 months old
December 21st, 2009Elijah boy (as we often call him) is seven months old and has been for a few weeks. I apologize for the lack of posts, my computer died. Elijah continues to be a delightful baby. He is very distractible these days and curious about everything. He LOVES Plato (our dog) and smiles every time he sees him. He is sitting up well and likes to sit and play with his toys. Solid foods are going well but he absolutely LOVES bananas. When I feed him anything else I have to encourage him to open his mouth to eat. But with bananas, he holds it open as if demanding more. He has recently begun the first signs of scooting on his belly.
Our baby parade shots are getting more interesting as he becomes more mobile. Enjoy!
6 Month Photos
November 22nd, 2009We recently had Elijah’s 6 month photos taken by our awesome photographer Allison in Blue Springs. www.allisoncarenza.com
He hadn’t napped before the shoot like we planned so he was a bit mellow at first. As soon as the clothes came off he was giggly and laughing like he usually does. This baby LOVES to be naked! Enjoy!
A boy and his dog
November 19th, 2009
6 months old
November 17th, 2009Elijah Wolfgang Zimmerman is 6 months old. He is a delightful little baby. His fun little personality makes us smile everyday. He is sitting up on his own and rolling over. His favorite things to do are; grabbing his feet and pulling off his socks, watching Plato our dog, hanging out with Daddy and taking his pacifier out of his mouth and attempting to put it back himself. He wants to touch anything and everything within his reach. If he can get his hands on it, straight into the mouth it goes (just like the monkey in the picture below), I love how he looks at the world around him as if there is so much to see and explore. Enjoy the photos!
