Step and Play Piano

One of Dustin's employees gave Elijah a Step and Play Piano. He loves it!! I don't know if you can see from the pictures, but the floor of the toy is a giant piano that plays music when he steps on it. It also has all kinds of noise making toys all over it. Eli loves making noise so he has been having a great time playing with it. He is pretty funny to watch while he is playing. He gets all excited and shakes his head no and makes little squeals and giggles. Too cute!

Laundry Day

Today Eli and I had a much needed laundry day. He was not very excited about helping me! LOL Eli has become very mobile the last few weeks, and he hates when I cramp his style. He tends to get very upset when I restrain him in anyway, especially by putting him in a laundry basket. I think he has already mastered the angry Tuggle stare! LOL

Old Friends in Virginia

Dustin recently got back into contact with some friends that served with him on his mission in Greece. Scott Torres was in Dustin's home stake in Lake Charles, and then later was Dustin's first junior companion in the mission field. Luit is from Holland and was one of Dustin and Scott's apartment mates. Scott lives in VA and Luit and Katrina were visiting from Germany and Switzerland. Scott took us to Old Town and showed some of the sites. It was great to hear all the stories they all told about their mission. It was so nice for Dustin to get to see them all again, and for Eli and I to get to put faces with the names and stories that Dustin tells us. Luit DeJonge and Scott Torres in Old Town Dustin, Eli and I, Scott Torres, Luit DeJonge and Katrina at the Harbor in Old Town Virginia

Washington, DC

This last weekend Dustin took Eli and I to Washington, DC for some site seeing. We were able to go and walk around the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. I was very excited because I had never been there and had always wanted to go. We had a great time walking around and looking at all the "bones and things" (that is how Dustin described the trip). In the Egyptian exhibit, they had on display one of the pictures from the book of Abraham. We have these same pictures hanging on our wall that Dustin had painted on papyrus while on his mission in Greece. We also went to visit the Washington Monument. From the hill that the Washington Monument is on, we could see the White House, the Capitol Building and the Jefferson Memorial. We had a great day exploring and enjoying our country's history.

Eli is 5 months old!

Eli turned 5 months old this month! Elijah now weighs 15lbs and 2oz, he is getting to be so big!

Happy 4th of July!

Elijah was very excited to celebrate his first Fourth of July!