Christmas Visits & Packages

All of us Elferings went to visit Great-Grandma Flossie the Monday before Christmas.  We were able to capture some of this priceless time on video…

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When we got home, there was a package waiting for Mac from Oma & Opa.  We also recorded him opening that, since they didn’t get to see it [...]

First Gift Opening

At our dice game night, Mac got to open his first presents ever (well, since he could actually control his hands). Here is the video — enjoy!

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These videos are taking a really long time to complete, especially when I make stupid mistakes like I did yesterday (wasted about 10 hours on it, [...]

A Couple Older Videos

Here are two older videos I didn’t have time to edit before now.  The Christmas ones are coming soon, I promise!
October 29, 2008 — Mac is starting to balance on his feet without holding on.  I caught just a few moments of his playtime.

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December 17, 2008 — Better balancing and playing in [...]

Mac’s First Christmas

We’ve had a busy week, and the Chtistmas celebrations aren’t over yet!
We started on the Sunday before Christmas with the Elfering Christmas party, hosted by one of Jeremy’s aunts this year. They were all delighted to see Mac - many of them hadn’t seen him since he was a couple months old. It was [...]

We Have a Nine-Month-Old!

Mac has certainly been good at growing this past month. His eating habits are starting to change to more emphasis on meals and less on bottles. He still gets three of each a day, but he’s much less interested in his bottles these days. He usually has two meals of baby [...]

First Halloween

We celebrated our first Halloween in the new house, complete with trick-or-treaters!  We had maybe twelve or so groups of kids come by, fewer than I expected, especially with the beautiful weather we had.  We didn’t take Mac out this year.  We’ve all had colds and thought better of trying it when he wouldn’t know [...]

Catching Up

I finally got around to finishing a video I took of Mac from the end of September.  I was recording how he is picking up food to feed himself and starting to use his sippy cup on his own.  He’s much better at both now, but I thought since I had the video (and now [...]

Eight Months Old

I suppose I can’t start every post with the phrase, “I can’t believe Mac is already…” but if I could I would!  He has now been out in the world almost as long as we had to wait after finding out he was coming (about 7 days shy).
Mac has made some huge developmental changes this [...]

Pulling Up to Stand

Here’s the video I caught yesterday of Mac’s latest trick - pulling himself up to standing in his crib.  He’s doing it more places now too… on the walker, furniture, bins at daycare…

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Tooofers!

Yes, as we were all enjoying a meal together tonight, a rarity in itself these days, I noticed Mac’s first tooth coming in.  He was giving me a big smile, mouth gaping as always, and I noticed a much whiter spot than usual so went in for another look.  Sure enough, Jeremy saw it too [...]