New Pictures

I've added some new pictures from January to the Shutterfly site. One new album is called 'January', and appropriately enough, it contains pictures taken during January. Some you've seen on the blog, but a few are new.

There is also a folder called "Trudi's Birthday Weekend", which does technically fall into the 'January' category, but it's an event in itself, therefore got its own album. Click over here and enjoy.

Sleepover

This weekend we visited Mike & Suzanne. I'm short on time and haven't been able to upload all the pictures yet, but from these pictures you can tell we all had a good time. Someone is always laughing when we get together with these two. More from me later!

Soon

I'll admit it. Sometimes when I'm checking in on other blogs I like to read and I noticed that it had been a few days since they posted, I wonder "what are they doing? why aren't they blogging? It's not like they have two kids/a house they're getting ready to list for sale/a demanding job/hair that need conditioning/8 loads of laundry/whatever seems to occupy my brain at the time". So I feel your pain if you've checked in here only to be dissapointed that it's still about Baby Alex. At least I left you with a cute one, huh?

We've had a mellow week at the Ellerman Household, and I'm having a hard time being productive after a very relaxing weekend in Charleston with Sessy, but its looking like it's going to be a fun February for us.

And hopefully an entertaining one for you to read about.

Babeeeeeee A'ecks.

So, like I was saying. Baby Alex. He's pretty darn cute. He belongs to this couple, whom I will call Hancock[left] and PrivateSchool [right]. They do have other names, but this what I call them in my head.

They so graciously invited us crash in on their quiet and relazing weekend at their family lakehouse. We briefly considered saying no since nothing about twin almost-two year olds is relaxing, and we knew we could run the risk of not being invited back if our kids didn't cooperate, but we needed a change in scenery ourselves and threw caution to the wind.

I got plenty of baby-holding in, and about melted into a puddle when Alex rested his head on my shoulder. He's a cuddler! Keith will try to tell you that Alex also cuddled with him, but its not true. Alex liked me best. Right, Alex? See- he's not so sure about this.

I could so steal Alex to make him mine, but he does seem awfully content with PrivateSchool and Hancock.

Even Grady liked him. And offered him the opportunity to touch BEAAAAAH. Not just anyone can touch that bear, you know. I was hoping in this interaction that Alex was telling Grady how to be more relaxed and laid back.

Thankfully all little kids sleep at some point, so while the weather outside was like this:

Inside it was more like this:

We played games, chatted and enjoyed our time with some of our favorite people. And hopefully left early enough the next day to let Alex and his parents relax a bit.

SHISH!

When it's cold outside and you have little kids you often wake up thinking "what are we going to do today?". The park is not an option, 'cause it's freezing out. The house is getting smaller by the day, and we've already walked around Walmart a few days ago. Since we're possibly some of the last Atlantans to go to the Georgia Aquarium, we decided my birthday was as good a day as any to go. 

I am not going to bother with any commentary, because the pictures really speak for themselves. Nah. Who am I kidding, half the fun is telling you what happened. 


We froze our *sses off getting inside, and dodged a crazy looking woman [who stepped right in front of Keith as he was taking a picture. Perhaps wherever she is from it means something else when a person stands and points a camera at the rest of their family? Here it means he's taking a picture, lady], and we headed to see the tunnel of shish first. 

The tunnel did not disappoint. Lots of SHISH-ing, and pointing.

And not all of it done by kids. 

After the tunnel, one comes to the giant wall of shish. So peaceful and we all sat mesmerized. And pointed. Sark! OOOOH, sark.

My apologies to the dude in the background. Not the best or most flattering picture of your rear, but at least we didn't capture your face. I did get a cute pic of Keith and Grady ID'ing fish.

We left the deep sea tank and headed to the coral reef.

We stopped in the rivers section for a rest, and we played in the kiddie area. That poor kid stood there for several minutes waiting his turn in the bubble window. Sorry dude. 

And we checked out the jellies.

 

The above picture is possibly my favorite picture of Keith and the boys, ever. Or should I say of Keith, the boys and Pacific Sea Nettles.

A great first visit to the Aquarium! We got annual passes, so you can look forward to more shish pictures in the future.