5 Years

Eric and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary this year. He is the sweetest man ever and got me the greatest gift- or gifts actually. So this is how it went:

5 Gifts for 5 years together.

1

For how sweet I am. Swedish Fish

2

For how I take care of him. A dinner made by him

3

For the traditional 5 year anniversary gift: Wood

4

For all my hard work taking care of Eli. A 5hour Spa Day at Elements

5

For how beautiful I am, he wants me to have beautiful things (his words-not mine :) A diamond necklace and earrings :)

He did such a great job! so creative- I had to post it on here to brag on him alittle. His gift was giving him the credit card and letting him go shopping all day for us! If you know Eric you know how much he enjoyed that!! He got Eli some stuff too:

Doctor visits

Well my visit on Monday went fine, nothing exciting. No help with my tailbone- they say I just have to tough it out-nice. We just got home from Eli's visit- which was horrible! The doctor was in and out the door before I was even done asking questions. She was in the room for 2 minutes! I was there because of the lump on his head, she walked in the door said hello and says that the lump is a encephalohematoma, totally normal and then starts to stand up and walk out the door! I said EXCUSE ME, I have a few more questions if you don't mind. She answered all my questions with "totally normal" WELL THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. I just had to wake up early and listen to a screaming baby while I drive 20 minutes over here for information I could have looked up on the Internet! Ugh. Well one good thing- I got to see how much he weighs, 12.8 lbs. Not quite as much as I thought, but nice and healthy!

baby and momma

Well the weather has gotten so much better here! It was a wonderful 83 degrees today and we could actually go outside and walk around. We are having a good time together at home during the day. Its kinda fun getting a schedule down- but we are going to totally blow it when we move home next month! For those that were wondering, I am doing a lot better. I can actually sit down quite well, I get pretty sore after about 10 minutes. But I will take it! It is so nice to sit on the couch and nurse- vs. having to lay down in bed every time. I have my follow up doctors appointment Monday, and Eli has his doctors visit on Wednesday. Can't wait to see how much this chunker weighs!

pretty much the cutest baby ever

big diaper booty

He can hold his head up so good.















We got in okay late Saturday night. It was was pretty rough flight and we had to fly around some storms, so we got in about an hour late. Eli did great up until the last hour when he started to lose it. But we got through it.
So Sunday we started him in his cloth diapers, they are working great! Its been about 24 hours now and he went through about 8 of them. They are so easy to use and he hasn't leaked at all yet. They are pretty cute too with his big booty.* Thank you Celeste*

Babies trip home

So far we are having a great time visiting home. Eli did wonderful on the flight here, he slept the whole 6 hours! He didn't even want to nurse when we were landing and it didn't seem to bother his ears, which I am really glad for. He has had to adjust alittle to the time change, but its not to bad. Just this week he is doing so many new things, he started smiling! and cooing and "talking" to us. It is so fun.





















Great Grandpa Jerry















SMILES!!!















4 Generations

We come home tomorrow

We are flying in tomorrow evening!!! I can't wait to bring him home to show everyone. Its really hard being so far away from home and any friends and family. We are having a party while we are in town and here's the invite if you want to come!

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Welcome Home Eric, Melea & Eli!


Host: Karen Quick/Darlene Holt/Jeannie Culp
Location: Dennis & Karen Quick's House
When: Saturday, September 15, 3:00PM

Phone: 360-253-5087

Everyone is invited to the Quick house to welcome home Eric, Melea & Eli. Come wish Eric well as he will be leaving for IRAQ very soon. We will be having an Open House so you are welcome to come and go when you would like. If you can, please bring a finger food to share.

we have a new camera

So that didn't last long- I had to go and buy a new camera. Here is the latest of our little chubby man.

we have no camera!

4 weeks ago already.



















I am not much of a blogger. I think your supposed to pour out your thoughts like an online diary. Mine is more like a photo album- you know you only look at the pictures anyways! So we lost our camera in Nashville! Actually ERIC lost our camera. So no new pictures of Eli until I can go looking for a new one. Heres some old ones to hold you all off until we get new ones.

August 13th



















August 20th















August 22nd

DADDY PLEASE

Daddy comes home tomorrow!!! We are very excited to have him back. He hasn't seen Eli in 2 weeks and I think he has changed a lot- he has definitely gotten bigger! This weekend we are headed to Nashville to stay a couple of nights and do some sightseeing with Darcy and Linda.

Coming home

Eric and I will be coming home to Portland September 8th! Oh yeah and we will bring the baby too. We will be there from Saturday the 8th til Saturday the 22nd. This will be Eli's first visit home and Eric's last before he deploys to Iraq :( Hope we get to see everyone while we are there!

New Grandma's and Grandpa's

Grandma and Grandpa Bauer got here Friday, and I am pretty sure they like the little guy :)

Well, Grandpa Quick and Uncle Micah joined us here in Tennessee on Monday. We got to go to Nashville a couple of days and do some sightseeing- it would be a lot better if it wasn't 103 degrees out! I am serious. We have had a CRAZY heat wave. Baby had his 2 week appointment on Tuesday and he is doing great and gaining weight very well- he is up to 9 lbs.
















Grandpa Quick and Eli

















































Playing video games with uncle Micah

pictures

Babies first bath! He loved it.





































































Babies first mohawk- I had to do it! He has so much hair on top.

I am the boob monster

So far so good at home now. He is sleeping about 4 hour chunks at a time and feeding is going so so. Lets just say a large chest is NOT ideal for breast feeding! The poor kid can't handle these giant things in his face. It has been alittle frustrating but we are both getting the hang of it. Eric left yesterday for a 2 week training course which has been really hard- Eli sleeps best with his daddy :) I am sure Eric will enjoy the extra sleep, but he hated to leave so soon after birth. What else, oh yeah I am on the greatest diet EVER! I eat whatever I want and I have already lost 20 lbs! Its pretty refreshing after watching the scale creep up for those 9 months.