Update

Hi!
Well things are rolling in the Elliott household. We finally got a new computer after Christmas and now all we need is some free time to use it!. I promise it is next on my list after getting the house in shape to go on the market...hopefully Feb 1. And if you know of anyone in search of a home in Birmingham let us know!

I took Luke yesterday for his 15 month check-up. He is doing well, reaching all his milestones. He is 30 inches tall (25%), weighs 21.8 pounds (25%) and his head circumference is 19 1/2 inches (75%). He has 6 teeth (4 up, 2 down) with 2 top molars breaking through right now. He can say a few words: Mama, Dada, something very close to Noah, dog, this, that, uh-oh. He will Moo when he sees a cow or you ask him what a cow says. He's usually right when you ask him to find something in a book. He loves to be read to. He loves climbing the stairs and even has learned how to come down them holding onto the rail. He is fascinated with Noah and knows when Noah is doing something bad. He knows several words in sign language. He can sign milk, all done, and i want more. He may know more signs, because it seems like he does some others, but we don't know them!

I'll try to post some pictures soon to catch you all up on how he has changed in the last couple of months.

Hope you all are doing well!

The wait is over

The wait is over! Josh matched for a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship with a practice in Atlanta! Congrats to Josh!!
We got the news this morning and I for one am glad to finally know where we are headed. Now I can start planning.
More details to come when we know them, but I just wanted to let you all know the good news.

More Halloween Pictures

Thanks Melissa!

Trip to Houston and Halloween

As you can see we have been quite busy over the last month! We made another fellowship trip this past weekend to Houston TX. We were able to visit with our good friends Marc and Melissa Inglese and my friend June while we were there.
Again, we weren't so good about taking pictures, but here are some shots from the Houston Zoo that Luke and I visited while Josh was interviewing.


Look Mom!


an Okapi!


and African cattle!


and an American gator (ok maybe mom liked this one more than Luke)


and here is our favorite gator. Luke was a gator for Halloween, this is the only photo I have of him in the costume, he wasn't sad about it all night. My friend Melissa got some cute pictures of him, I'll get another one from her to post.

Trip to North Carolina

Josh had another fellowship interview, this one at Duke. Luke and I went along so we could visit with our good friends the Dungans and the Samuels. Luke got to meet Clark Dungan who is not quite 6 weeks older than him. They got along great, Clark was very kind to Luke in showing him were all of the toys were in his house. I guess we didn't take too many pictures while we were there, but here are a few of the shots we got. We had a great time and really miss our NC friends!


Luke is looking serious about riding and Clark is posing for the camera


another obligatory embarrassing tub photo

Luke's First Birthday!!!

Luke turned one year old today! He had both sets of grandparents and many of our neighbor friends over to celebrate the occasion. Luke had a little "smash" cake all to himself, although he didn't really get into the smashing of it. Luke was spoiled with all of the wonderful gifts he received, thank you to all of you friends and family that helped make his birthday so special!


Luke's cake


what should I do now?


ok, I'll give it a try


Here Nana, you try it


after the cake, Ryne shows Luke how to properly work the red spinny thing


on to the presents, Noah was getting a bit impatient and decided to help


fine, I'll just play with this paper

Trip to Atlanta

Luke, Noah, and I went with Josh on his first round of interviews for his fellowship. He had two interviews in Atlanta, one at Emory on Friday and another with a private practice on Saturday. It was quite an adventure traveling with both Noah and Luke. While Josh was at the Emory interview, I had to check us out of the hotel and then I walked around the campus for an hour and a half with Luke in the stroller and Noah on the leash until Josh was done. We were able to spend Friday night and Saturday with our friends Danny and Regina and their little boy Preston. Luke and Preston had a good time together, Preston was studying Luke's crawling moves and it wasn't long after we left that Preston had it down! Luke got his first busted lip on this trip, he was trying to use Noah to stand up and Noah scooted away too fast for Luke to recover. He was a trooper though, a little ice cream and he was all better!


Luke's busted lip


obligatory embarassing tub shot