The Cislaghi's: My Poor Neglected Blog

As you may have noticed, my blog has not gotten a lot of love lately. I have been hanging on by a very thin thread to try to get it updated every so often, although December has been rather rough on the poor blog. That said, a neglected blog means that we have been having a lot of fun! We have had lots of Christmas parties and get togethers and just fun hanging out and playing together. Elijah is getting SO much more vocal and I love this stage. Every day he continues to say new words that impress me and understands things that I wouldn't expect him to. He is so much fun to spend my days with and I am thankful for my little buddy. I feel like we have a ton of pictures that I haven't posted lately, so I am going to really try to weed them down and give you you a little taste of what we've been up to lately. So without further ado, here we go...

PJs. Beanie. Iron. What else could a little boy need to be this happy?

Just working out all those wrinkles in the rug. Thank you, buddy!

It has finally cooled down here in Dallas after a very hot summer. Eli's interest in the pool, however, has not waned. One day we were out playing in the backyard and Elijah kept calling out "blue pool!" (which sounds more like "boo pooo"). I tried to rationally explain to him that it was too cold and we would play in the pool again next summer (aka, a lifetime away!) but believe it or not, that tactic did not seem to be very effective on a 20 month old. So, we got a little creative and brought the boo pooo inside. Eli found it to be just as much fun without water. :)

Crawling across the booo pooo.

"Mommy, check this out!"

Now playing in the pool sans water in the nice warm house. Good idea mom! :)

Ahh, the always popular pool tent!

"Come on in, guys, there is lots of room and it is SO fun in here!" :)

When we were in San Antonio for Thanksgiving, Nana gave Eli this very special Christmas present. It is the book "The Night Before Christmas" and she recorded herself reading the story for Eli. He LOVES this book and I think we will all have the book memorized before long. :)

Eli loves listening to Nana read to him.

Fun with the yellow school bus.

Just can't get enough of that sweet smile!

Our annual tradition of Ethan putting the bow (since we don't have a star) on top of our little tree. :)

Eli was very interested in the Christmas tree the next morning!

"Ooooh, what is this one?!"

"I know I'm not supposed to touch it, but what about just this one..."

This picture is of Eli watching the video of himself on the blog. He LOVES to see or hear himself on tape. We must have watched the video about 10 times in a row and it was this awesome each and every time!

Cute new PJs from Mamie

Family breakfast at Biscuits Cafe on a Saturday morning

My boys

The most childproof plate they had :)

After a nice breakfast, we headed next store to the hair salon for Eli's second hair cut.

"Oh boy, I can hardly wait!"

Eli "read" his way all through the haircut and did great.

Thank you, Dr. Seuss, we owe you one.

This time we told them to just trim it up and leave some of those precious curls intact.

We forgot to take an after picture, but he looks very handsome of course.

Storytime with Dada before bed

Eli sitting on the big potty

Interest in the potty is definitely growing for Elijah. The other day, he wanted to sit on it when it was open. I set him up there for a second, and then decided that it was time to go him a potty of his own that he could sit on. While he is not really potty training yet, he loves to sit on is potty and it is certainly a fun toy for the time being.

Last night Eli was sitting on his littly potty and it was so cute. I wish I had my camera but wasn't able to grab it at the moment. He was sitting on his little potty, completely naked, and kept saying "Ei peepee potty, Ei poopoo potty." We sang a little potty song and he was grinning as big as could be, naked on his little potty. For his sake, it may be a good thing that I didn't get any pictures of that, but it is a fun memory that I will certainly keep.

Elijah's Sunday School Craft :)

We posted his beautiful nativity scene on the refrigerator. He loves to walk up to it and point out "baby Jejus." It melts my heart every time!

Another current obsession is driving mommy's car. These next few pictures were all taken yesterday and Eli was just having a ball "driving" my car.

I have a little voice recorder that has become predominately a toy for Eli. We will record him saying different things and then he plays it back over and over again.