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Animated Fun At The Park

We went to Montclair Park and Crab Cove last weekend and played with my newish camera (Olympus TG-1 (external product page unavailable)).  So without further ado, let's do this BuzzFeed style:   1. Jumping The Water   2. Swinging Oh So High

What I Want For Chrismukkah

Eli has put together this list to show not just what he wants for Christmas and Hanukkah, but how he'll react once he gets it. This post is as much for cute value as for present soliciting: reading it does not mean you have to buy anything!

Rock Star and Bubbles

Despite what Ozzy Osbourne may think Bubbles & Rock Stars do go together, at least for Eli. Eli made a guitar (I'm a little skeptical that he did the whole thing by himself) at school last week and proceeded to perform for quite a while, he

Camping, A Camera, A New Post!

It has been nearly a year since the last post here, we'll try to make it less than a year until the next. First up, I sent Eli off to Radio Shack with $40 to buy a remote control car, and he came back with a camera. Molly claims they don't

The artist at work

Eli is having a great time painting today, and got so enamored of the lovely blotches of paint that the following discussion ensued: Eli: "Maybe I should paint my chin." Me: "No, I don't think that would be a good idea. How about just paint

T-Ball!

Eli has been having lots of fun playing T-Ball in the backyard so we though the natural next step was team T-Ball, or group T-Ball anyway. After a good deal of whining we got him to bat a few times which actually went pretty well when he w

The day Eli learned to draw faces

Cousin Emily was visiting Eli and I a couple weeks ago, and she brought Eli this cool erasable whiteboard for drawing. Now, Eli loves drawing. Scribbling, drawing in the same spot until there's a hole in the paper, ordering his patient pare

Eli is 3!

We are a little late with this post, but Eli did indeed turn 3 right on schedule on March 2nd. He seems to double his intelligence with each day. Unfortunately he becomes exponentially more difficult each day. Eli had several great parties,

Sea Foam Makes Me Roam

We hit Ocean Beach on Saturday and were met with some incredible weather, and mass amounts of sea foam for toddler frolicking. See all the photos from the foamy beach trip, and two pretty HD beach videos. Or read more about beach foam from

Playing in the Rain

It was pretty rainy here today, so in between a potty training marathon Eli and I went out and explored the vast world of water from the sky. Overall he was very impressed with his rain boots: See all the rain videos and photos.

Eli learns to use the camera...?

Eli has discovered my camera, which luckily is drop/shock proof, I'll let you be the judge of his budding career in photography: Sell all his photos here: Eli Learns to Use the Camera

Project Pizza

I've been trying to let Eli "help" me with dinner more lately, which often consists of me giving him a bowl of goldfish and cheerios to stir with a spoon while I actually do the cooking. But tonight I was making pizza, so I thought, ok! Per

Videos and new trucks!

Eli got some new trucks from Grandma Linda, and the best part about them was the box they came in, which he turned into everything from a garage to a boat to a vehicle bed: He's been into puzzles lately, but he's mostly into tearing them ap

Eli: boss of the world

Now that Eli is 2 (and going on 2 and a half), he's the boss of everything. And his demands, while dictatorial, are also hilarious. Here are some of the things he demanded that I do in the last 24 hours: "Eat my foot." "Do the robot." "Stan

Camp, Pancakes and Water Fountains

Camp, Pancakes and Water Fountains, photos and video.

A bunch of video

I've been meaning to post these, and since I've been so slow, you end up with a fun little backlog of video to watch! Here are seven recent videos showing off Eli's chatting skills (love how he says "Uncle Matt"), his laundry folding abilit

My Weeked (or what I ate at the fair)

Eli had a big eating weekend, most of it occurring in the last few hours at the Alameda County Fair. More photos in post....

Parks on a hot day, oh and bath art!

It was pretty hot here in Oakland today. Eli and I set off on a tour of various parks, trying to stay in the shade the best we could. For some reason Eli decided to pose for this photo with no prompting as I fumbled to try and get the camer

Father's Day 2009

Eli, my dad and I had a nice 3 generation Father's Day (only 2 generations are fathers ;) ). The day started with a nice present and card from Eli: Followed by a breakfast of fried egg, cheese, bacon and arugula panini . A round of pitch an

Eli's Premiere

Eli appeared in his first singing, dancing brunch show today. It is safe to say that he was much more frightened of the crowd then the crowd was of him. But with a little help from Mommy he got through it. See the video and other photos. Af

Cornucopia of Eli Photos & Videos

We are a bit behind on Eli photos so here is a selection of photos and videos taken recently: Eli's Potty Attempts Golfing and Box Crawling Eli Around The House Early Morning Eli Eli at the zoo on the train. More to come...

Learning to drink espresso

Watch as Eli learns to drink espresso:

Terrible Twos, Sledding, and Monsters

Eli appeared in his first singing, dancing brunch show today. It is safe to say that he was much more frightened of the crowd then the crowd was of him. But with a little help from Mommy he got through it. See the video and other photos. Af

Preschool update

We're happy to report that Eli is definitely enjoying his new school. He's had three complete days there, seems to be napping well, and best of all, doesn't want to leave when we pick him up. We haven't noticed him speaking too much Spanish

Preschool & Horsey

Eli started preschool on Monday at Monte Tavor (external page unavailable) a play based Spanish immersion school. We are transitioning him a few hours a day. Because of the time change he was a bit unhappy at drop off on the first day. Toda

Eli turns 2!

Ok, yeah, Eli turned 2 last Monday, but we had his party today, and it was a pretty chaotic and fun event, with a dance-party theme. We found that the loud music seemed to exponentially increase the hyper-ness of the children, though, so it

Cutest Boy In The World?

If you want to know who the cutest boy in the world is just ask Eli:

Eli the lounging egg eater

Eli loves his ketchup and eggs, and what could be better than feet up eggs & ketchup! (Note to concerned parents: safe straps attached entire time, and Eli was made to "sit properly" after photo was taken)

Where Eli won't be going for preschool

We went to visit a preschool today and came across this sign, and immediately sneaked out the back: What's wrong with "starwars" and what is bad firefighter?

Club Med Ixtapa 2009: Sick, Well, Sick

We've just returned from what seems like our 6th week out of town in the last month. For the last week we've been at Club Med Ixtapa in Mexico. Overall a very good trip. We were very worried the night before we left as Eli developed a feve

New Christmas tradition: violent vomiting

It appears we have a new Woodhouse Christmas tradition on our hands: the one-day flu! We were worried when, less than 12 hours before we were supposed to board the plane for North Dakota, Eli threw up all over my lap. See, I don't know if y

Cutest sentence ever.

This morning, Eli was standing on top of his little stepstool, eating Cheerios at the counter. Let me preface this by saying he's obsessed with stairs, and whenever he sees any, he wants to go up them. And he gets pretty fired up about Chee

Weekend in Monterey

Justin, Eli, and I played tourist this weekend in Monterey! I had a work gig on Monday, so we all hung out on the king-sized bed for a couple of nights. Although I think Eli had plans to claim it for himself ... Legacy gallery image unavail

Halloween 2008: Elephant attack!

Ok, first, let me just say, Eli totally gets this Halloween thing. It's all about the spoils. Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli checks out his candy Unlike last year, when he was too sick to even get in his costume, let alone trick-or-t

Funny things Eli says

Eli has amazing powers of pronunciation. He can be incredibly precise in his little sentences, like this morning's "I want my blanket" and his most complicated sentence yet: "I want to wash that." (Seriously. He's pretty amazing in the talk

Eli likes ice cream

And it's a good thing, because it's a good reward for yet another disastrous haircut experience!

Our life: a toddler-hood sitcom

Eli has entered toddler-hood. This means, in essence, that he's almost completely uncontrollable, has absolutely zero sense of self-preservation, is lethally curious and almost just as lethally clumsy, and has a temper that's as quick and u

Words

Ok, I'm trying to get a more complete list of the words Eli currently says. Forgive the repeats! This is just the easiest way to count. :) No Yes (this is extremely rare) daddy up down cat quacka (cracker) apple (almost constant usage) hot

Not tired

Eli has a pretty good bedtime routine going. Round about 7:20 p.m., we make him a bottle, which he happily takes, and then we brush his teeth, then sit and read a book or two (or sometimes the same book four times), snuggle a little, and he

Just Say No

Eli's new favorite word is "no", as you can see in this amusing clip:

I am not making this up

We are sitting at the dinner table eating peaches (Eli's new favorite food, by FAR -- he calls it "apple," which is his word for all fruit. He goes, "apple! apple! apple! apple!" as soon as he sees it), and Eli finished his slice. He reache

Tahoe vacation!

We just got back from our fabulous week in North Lake Tahoe, where we rented a super-plush vacation house with Marc, Elaine, Atticus, and Solomon (external site unavailable). All of us had a fantastic time, and Eli was all grown up, running

Haircut and the month of June

Yes, Eli's first haircut was an epic, Titanic-like disaster. But after he was mistaken for a girl three times in the same day, his daddy insisted that we try again to do something about this spectacular mop (and yeah, he's wearing daddy's s

Full-time walking, talking, and raging!

We're happy to report that Eli is a full-time walker now! He went from 10 steps at a time to all-the-time in about a week flat, and now he's obsessed. Daycare reports that he spent two solid hours walking up and down the pathway in front of

Yeah, he walks now. Well, sometimes.

Eli insists on walking these days. He doesn't want to be carried, oh, no. He has fits when you try to lift him into the car, or carry him up the stairs at daycare pickup. But see, here's the thing. He insists on walking even though ... he d

A big boy and a gross boy

Eli is such a big boy that he doesn't want to ride in the cart, he wants to push the cart: He went through about half of our football-field-sized Whole Foods before deciding riding was ok, after all. In other news, I am sorry to report that

Nothing but trouble

The results are in. Eli is a deeply dangerous boy. He's so far not bothering to learn how to walk, but he's working hard at mastering climbing. You can see here, he's starting to consider the technique: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli

The haircut

I liked his little urchin look, but pretty soon, everyone started telling us that Eli needed a haircut. And I suppose, once it started getting in his eyes, causing him to rub them nonstop, it was time: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli'

Introducing picture of the day!

We've started a "Picture of the Day" feature for capturing Eli hilarity. We can't actually promise that it will be EVERY day, but we're going to try! You can see all the pictures by clicking here, and the day's picture will automatically sh

Video of the day

Eli and daddy rolling in the grass on what feels like our first day of summer here in Oakland: Oh, ok, here's a bonus. Eli dances in the car. It's so awesome.

Oh, baby

Eli woke up a genius today. His dancing alone is amazing. He's like a young Elvis, and he tries to snap along with the beat when we play the radio in the car. If you ask him where "outside" is, he points to the window and says, "utsuh." He

Months 12 and 13: progress of the adorable variety

Just some long overdue pictorial updates from February and March. Eli discovered cabinets (which are now all locked up): Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli in the cabinets Loved his crib and his little sleepytime elephant: Legacy gallery

Eli Talks & Has Water Fight With Himself

Eli was very talkative last night at the dinner table. It might be hard to see in this video but he has emptied the contents of his sippy cup on himself and his tray. Be sure to keep watching to the end as the last second is the best.

Eli and the walking wagon

Eli turns one!

And here's the money shot: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli has his cake and ice cream, too Eli had his cake ... and his ice cream, too. See all the pictures from the big day here (legacy gallery unavailable)! And check out his newest

The Plague

Not so cute now, is he? It's interesting. The sickness is something they don't really tell you about. I mean, it's kind of out there ... "Oh, if he's in daycare, he'll get a lot of colds the first year." But there's no way to really convey

Viva la Mexico!

We think this picture says it all (sorry, future Eli): Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli vacations Yep, Eli learned to live a lounger's life last week. We just got back from our first big family vacation, at Club Med Ixtapa Pacific in I

Babies in Vegas

That's right, at just 10 months old, Eli attended his first Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas -- although, to be perfectly accurate, he didn't attend the show, since they don't let anyone under 16 into the convention center. But he did

Eli is on Twitter!

We decided that Eli needs to hop on the social networking bandwagon and start Twittering (legacy Twitter link unavailable) his daily activities. So, he has his own Twitter account and he'll be posting short blog updates about his activities

Eli: Halloween to Christmas

So, we've got some catching up to do, eh? Last time we talked, Eli had the croup and was too sick to wear his Halloween costume, he was slowly transitioning from commando crawl to hands-and-knees, and his top two teeth were just poking thro

Poor little hot dog

He just couldn't handle being in costume last night (and he had a pretty good fever going, so we didn't want to cook him). But in the interest of record-keeping, we at least laid him on top of his costume and took a picture ... and then he

The Croup, the commando crawl, and the first words

Eli and I are having a sick day today (and yesterday, and probably tomorrow, and hopefully not Thursday) because he has croup. Or, as Justin likes to call it, The Croup. He woke up with it Sunday night, and then got some steroids Monday mor

Just a little gratuitous cuteness

Eli's new monkey towel takes bathtime cute to a whole new level: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli's new towel Speaking of monkeys, he may have a favorite new toy: Legacy gallery image unavailable: A boy and his monkey He has a new girl

The seventh month: on the move!

I guess I sort of thought we'd get to six months and then just stop. You don't hear a lot about seven-month-old babies, you know? Six months is sort of this milestone, and after that felt like uncharted territory. But here we are, marching

Month six: Teeth!

Breaking news! Eli has sprouted not one, but TWO teeth! We've tried and tried to take pictures, and I even thought taking a video might work, but Eli is much more interested in blowing raspberries and pushing the camera away than he is in o

Eli: Month six

Eli turned six months old on September 2, and he is right on schedule! He's followed up rolling with, well, rolling the other way. He can now sit up (when placed in a sitting position) almost completely unassisted -- there are still periodi

Month five: Big-boy time!

We're three weeks into the fifth month and it's becoming all too clear: Eli is a big boy now. It feels like he's developing his personality at a rocketship pace--and becoming more independent, bossy, and ambitious every second. His little c

The Roll

Ok, I know we reported that Eli rolled over at four weeks, but after that, he got a little lazy. Now, we're happy to report that he has truly rolled over, for real, under his own power, after weeks of frustrated trying. He now easily goes f

Eli Simpson

Not much new this week, for my birthday Molly turned Eli into a Simpsons character as pictured above. More to come...

A little video housekeeping

Yes, it's true, we've been MIA in the worst way. Eli has been generally wonderful, though we've had a bit of a rough week, as he's been waking up a lot at night with what seems to be a combination of the four-month growth spurt, a little bi

Week 18: Travels with Eli

Eli really digs airplanes! Not the car, still. Oh, no, never the car. But he's very good on the plane, despite the occasional large in-air poop. (Is there some sort of Mile-High Poopers Club?) He slept like ... well ... a baby, and missed s

A note on dumber babies

Clearly, Eli is far more intelligent than the babies in my mothers' group. Those moms tell tales of babies who sleep peacefully through their travels -- through entire car rides, time spent at the airport, the flight itself, and then contin

Eli Special Report: Babies on a plane (and also, Week 17)

We're writing to you from sunny Portland, Ore., where we're laid over en route to Montana. (It's a last-minute trip due to Grandpa Bobo's clever plan to lure Eli out of California by going to the hospital.) So far, we've completed one leg o

Eli Special Report: Eli Talk Real Good

Watch this.... (by that I mean what you see below is a video, so click on it and it will play, make sure you make it to the end).

Week 15: I mean, seriously.

I don't even have anything to say, here: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli tummy time I know, right? And get this: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli in an orange hat And then this is just ridiculous. Ridiculous. Legacy gallery image

Week 14: Nothing happened in week 13

Oh, ok, not true. I just needed a reason for this long absence. In week 13, we failed to take many pictures, mostly because Eli was wanting to be held almost always but otherwise unremarkably sweet and adorable, other than his growing hatre

Week 12: Leaps and bounds

So, I keep trying to remember that Eli's week 12 is more like week 9, since he was three weeks early and all, but man, that kid is right on schedule. Check it out: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Packing up the baby clothes already He's n

Week 11: Why we forgive him

Man, this week's batch of Eli photos (legacy gallery unavailable) is extra adorable. Witness: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli gets kissed And maybe a little of this: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli's new outfit And oh, yeah, how

Week 10: Standing and bathing

Eli hit an incredibly important milestone this week, which I'll get to in a moment. First, here's a look at his latest fun game, "standing with Mommy." Note: no babies were injured during filming of this video. Ok, on to the milestone. Chec

Shots and a string-bean

We went to Eli's well-baby appointment yesterday, which was traumatic for everyone, but at least it ended in cute band-aids: Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli's band-aids Legacy gallery image unavailable: More band-aids Yep, Eli had to

Week 9: Derby week

In honor of Derby week, we thought we'd introduce Elias to the world of big iron horses at the park. Legacy gallery image unavailable: Eli the jockey Although at the rate he's growing, or attempting to grow, life as a jockey is not for him.

Week 8: Snuggling in 80 degrees

Here are five photographically illustrated facts about Eli. 1. Eli is by far the happiest when he can sleep on your shoulder (preferably the left, over your heart) in an upright position. We believe he now weighs just over 11 pounds and gai

Eli: Week 7, the smiling

This week, we attempted to capture Eli's big grins on camera with no success, really -- this is as close as we came: Legacy gallery image unavailable But you'll notice by the beard that he's smiling at his daddy! In other events, Eli modele

Breaking news: Eli's first smile!

Eli smiled at us ... ok, only at mommy ... for the first time yesterday, and he's whipped out a couple of gummy grins today, too! Unfortunately, he hasn't yet smiled at Justin, who's feeling just a tiny bit left out. I'm sure that's up next

Week 6: The screamer

I don't want to bore you with the trials of our latest week with fussy, gassy, screeching Eli, so here's a look at the funnier side of his affliction. Listen carefully! And here are the week 6 photos we managed to take (legacy gallery unava

So tired... (a.k.a Week 5)

Eli had an angry week and thus we had a sleepy or should I say sleepless week. The Dr. thinks he might have Gastric reflux and prescribed Zantac, but it doesn't seem nearly as bad as that article describes. At his one month checkup he is ma

Eli: Week 4

It happened! Eli rolled over!* Ok, there's an asterisk there because Justin actually put Eli down on his tummy with his left arm tucked underneath him. So, he had a little bit of a head-start. But then he just flung his little butt right ov

Eli: Week 3 in photos

Sorry for the delay in posting, Eli has had quite a busy week which hasn't left much time for blogging. The week started with a visit from out of town Grandpa Bob, as well as trips to Target, and even AT&T Park for some photos in front of t

Eli: Week 2

Wherein: Eli goes for his first walk, models his fabulously large sleep sack, proves himself to be a hilarious little lounger, and spends lots of quality time with daddy. Click here for the week 2 gallery! (legacy gallery unavailable)

First Week of Photos

By popular demand here is a sampling of our first week of Eli photos (legacy gallery unavailable) (that means you have to click on the link).

Bilirubin, not as cute as it sounds

Legacy gallery image unavailable: Bilirubin Baby No Eli is not tanning in this picture, though I do think he is enjoying himself. Eli has a case of Jaundice. He's been in phototherapy for the last 24 hours to help him process the Bilirubin

Elias Lee Eckhouse

We are thrilled to announce that @ 1:57 Elias Lee Eckhouse was born. He is doing great as is Molly. He is 7lbs 1oz, 19 3/4 inches. Check out the photos below or you can view the full Eli album (legacy gallery unavailable) (which isn't very

Not helping with bed rest? Earthquakes

So, in case you haven't heard, we did NOT have to have an emergency C-section and bring little Jumo Jr. into the world early. Instead, I've been sentenced to bed rest to try to keep my blood pressure down hopefully until I just plain go int

A February JumoJr?

Molly had a little case of high blood pressure today and it was looking like JumoJr might get a February birthday. The blood pressure has since declined a bit, but we are going to hang around in the hospital overnight so Molly can be monito

Aww, work shower!

Now, baby showers at work are a wonderful thing. But baby showers at work when you both work together at the same place on the same team!? Now that is awesome. They ordered in my favorite work-time lunch (chicken parmesan from Whole Foods)

The day the toes went bye-bye

Yep, yesterday was a sad day. I looked down to brush some hair off the incredible growing belly, and realized ... I could only see floor. Get a Molly's eye perspective in this video. Hey, did you guys know the Queen Mary 2 was in San Franci

Baby room progress ... and eight months of progress, too

It's a darned good thing we're making some progress in the baby's room, because today, I officially hit eight months. EIGHT. MONTHS. There are, officially, just eight weeks remaining in our long, long, journey of gestation. So far, we've pa

Dancing Pregnant Molly

We've just returned from a successful doctor's visit, and the news that Molly has excellent hemoglobin levels just made her feel like dancing...

Look, an actual belly!

It's taken us a long time, but now that I've hit seven months, I'm starting to make a respectable showing of myself. Justin insisted on the hat. Little Hammer is keeping us busy trying to count the kicks -- all he does is bump around in th

I'm a Boy!

On Monday the 6th we went in for the 20 week ultrasound. After a fairly short wait we were taken into the ultrasound room, where some kind of ultrasound solution was applied to Molly and the hunt began. The ultrasound tech was silent, so m