Eating, decorating Christmas stuff, more eating, and the funny things Elle says

Here's Noli getting ready to eat his cereal/sweet potato mix! He LOVES eating cereal and now after working on it for 2+ weeks, he's got this eating thing with a spoon down! We've mixed cereal with sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, bananas, and apple. His favorite is the banana and his least favorite, the peas - not a surprise. He wants his food to be shovelled into his mouth as fast as possible and gets upset when it is gone. I have given him seconds and it seems he would even want thirds! He's usually pretty mellow, but not when he eats! Now that he is eating more than just breast milk, his pooping has slowed to 1 - 2 blasts a day, which for the most part stay in his diaper (except for last night at 4am, what a mess).

This is his first cereal feeding! He wasn't too sure what to think.Elle really wanted to help spoon him the food, and wipe his mouth. She couldn't stand to see his face so messy (wonder where she gets that from)!!
I had to capture this one time cuddling moment! Elle has very hot/cold feelings toward Nolan. At first when he was born, she really could care less about him. Lately the jealousy has come out. She will say things like "Noli can't read this book with me". She is mostly jealous when anyone other than me shows Nolan any attention, especially Jonathan. Jonathan will tell Nolan he loves him, and Elle will say "No you don't, you love me" with attitude. If Nolan's hand touches her, she will say "no" and push him away. However, in the blink of an eye, Ellison's attitude can change...if he's fussy, she will try to put his pacifier in his mouth. Or if he wakes up from his nap, Elle will yell to him "don't worry Noli, we are coming". Anyway, the picture below was right before Elle's nap time. We usually read books in her bed. If Nolan is awake he lays on one side of me and Ellison is on the other. Well, while I was picking out books, I looked up to see Elle going by him, I was worried she would be possessive of her bed (like she sometimes is), but instead she cuddled right up to him. Of course Nolan loved it, she always makes him happy! I praised Elle for being such a great sister and told her how happy that makes Nolan and Jonathan and me.

Cookie Monster! Elle helped me with cookies this year. She helped make the dough and eat it, roll the dough (and eat it), use the cookie cutters, bake the cookies (and eat them), and frost and decorate them (and of course eat more)! Here she is with one she frosted and decorated.

Noli the Christmas Elf!

Elle and I had fun building and decorating this gingerbread house, guess what...she loved to lick the icing!

Here she is with the naked gingerbread girl (Jonathan's contribution to this post: please note the NFC Divisonal and playoff standings in the background...GO BEARS!)

Now she is all decked out!

Fun with snow people. Check out this outfit! (Jonathan's 2nd contribution to this post...she wears the colors and GSH close at all times)

Elle has been saying some funny stuff lately and I've been writing her lines down to post (my friends Jenny and Katie are really good at this and I always get a kick out of what their kids say).

Background story - Elle likes pigs and deer/reindeer...

Elle- "I can't get my hoof in" -she was trying to get her shoe on!

Me- laughing "honey, you have feet"

Background story - We were making eggs for breakfast, as we were cracking the first egg...

Elle- "Maybe there will be a chick in there"

Me- "the mother chicken didn't get a chance to sit on these eggs"

Background story - Reading a Dora the Explorer Book. The book reads something along the lines of "will you help Dora find her way home?"

Elle- "But, I'm not in the book"

Me- "you're right, but if you could help her you would right?"

Elle "yeah"

Background story - Elle was playing with a little toy and asked what the fine print said on the bottom of it, the only part I could read was "Made in China"

Elle- "that's where panda bears live"

Me- "that's right, did you learn that from the Wonder Pets"?

Elle - "yeah"

(Who says TV is bad for kids?)

Background story - Elle is really into Max and Ruby books/shows. Anyway, Max (the little brother bunny) has a stuffed slug, called the Can't-Sit-Up Slug, who slumps over whenever it sits. She laughs whenever she sees it.

Elle - "Nolan is kinda like the Can't-Sit-Up Slug!"

Me - laughing of course "he will sit up some day soon"

On a much more serious, yet sweet, note...

Background story - I've been calling calling Nolan "Noli" and Elle has been correcting me saying "Not Noli, Nolan" Sometimes she says "Not Noli, Nolan James". This is funny on it's own, but it went further the other night when Jonathan was explaining to Ellison where her and Nolan's middle names came from. He explained how her middle name, Leigh, is the same as mine and her Aunt Megan's and cousin Daphne's. Then he went on to say that Nolan's middle name is from her Grandpa Jim, who she never got to meet since he is in Heaven.

Elle's response "and I live in Cary and Grammy and Grampy live in Wausau!"