Elijah Creed

Actually I call him - 'Lijah Creed or Creed. It's funny because I actually do forget that his name is Elijah....when people ask me his name I say....(pause) in my head I'm saying (Lo - no- nat - no- huh?) And then I say "'Lijah" and people say "What?" Then I have to say Elijah.
Elijah is doing very well. He is rolling, rolling, rolling! I laid him on the floor in his room the other day and watched him roll across the room and out the door! He loves to roll. OH and that rule about babies sleeping on the belly - oh- uh-uh! You lay him down on his back and he roles right over!
He loves to SCREACH and SCREAM and HOLLER! He gets this from Natalie!
He said "mama" first - He said it for me on my birthday! (it was really cute) We were at Chilie's and I looked at him and said, "Lijah, it's my birthday say mamma." And he replied - (see if you can keep up) He smiled, said mmmm....then he made a big frown and said maaaa -(tears were in his eyes) and then he smiled and laughed and said "mmmm" and then frowned with the tears and said "mmmaaammaaa"! Then he smiled and laughed again! and you know what - he hasn't said it since!
Now he likes to say "yayayaydadadaddaaayayayddaaaadadadada" aka "dada"
He loves his daddy! He can be so fussy and then Steven comes home and he starts kicking and laughing and is just exstatic to see his dad. He won't let Steven pass him up either!

Elijah used to sleep ten hours every night - then we went to Nana and Pawpaw's house and WAM!!! - He is only sleeping 5-6 hours at night! Which is still good for a 6 month old but come one what happened to my 10 hours!

Elijah's last Echo came back inconclusive. They said that there is a part of the aorta that they couldn't get a good picture of and that there seems that there might be a little more scar tissue forming that is causing a little bit of a narrowing....sigh. We go back to the Dr. in February.
He is a really healthy baby though and you can't tell that he was ever sick, except for the scar along his ribs that only I see when I change his clothes or give him a bath.
Speaking of baths! He loves to splash and doesn't mind at all if Natalie splashes back! Yes we bathe them together - It's so much faster and funner. Grant it, it will have to come to an end when Natalie starts asking more questions.

Elijah wants to crawl SUPER bad! He lays on his belly and just swims, swims, swims. (he does it really fast too!) He knows how to pick up his upper half way off the floor, but then he drops down and puts one knee under him....he just has to put them together.