Elias Edward Tungate

Faith Hill - "A Baby Changes Everything"

Faith Hill - "A Baby Changes Everything": "Joy to the World"

its christmas......

all year long you keep on keeping on. take the good with the bad. I have had good and bad. hopefully ending the year on a good note. Yesterday todd's truck broke. so my car is totalled and his truck in the shop. his other truck doesn't heat well. haha it has to get better right! Well we got a surprise gift from the ups guy this afternoon. So i guess there kind of is a santa claus still right? I like to believe there is anyway.
People are a little kinder this time of year.
wish it was a year round thing.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year!

Eli is changing so fast!

I was happy to get to keep Eli monday and tuesday. He is so energetic! He is so close to walking but just not sure about it yet. He climbs now! You sure have to be right there behind him. He has no fear! He climbed into the walker, but just as i thought he would cruise around in it he was climbing back out. So the walker went out to the garage. We will store it for the next baby.
He bumped his head on Grammy's sewing machine cabinet. He got a big old goose egg! I just wanted to cry, he had only been here about an hour. When he did it I was right next to him, he just got tangled over his feet and went down on it forehead first. He let me hold a cold wash cloth on it while he drank some of his juice. By tuesday it was gone down, just a greenish bruise by tuesday morning.
It is so fun being on the floor with him. He will come over and hug me once in awhile. In his way he is telling me "I love playing with you Gma!" Of course I love it just as much. Taking him home was hard. He cried and reached for me. I wish I didn't have to leave either. But I knew he would be okay as soon as Miranda started feeding him his supper.
He is trying to talk. I am sure he said Dog. (he loves phoenix running around here in the house).
He says what sounds like yeah! But it sort of sounds like laaal.
of course mom and momma are his favorite words so he says those alot. And yabadabadoo,well thats what it sounds like to me.
He loves the monkeys in the book, Caps for sale. He also likes his picture book of animals and bugs.
Just so he never gets too old to cuddle with Grandma. I love the little guy so much!

Eli's 1st birthday!!!

It is almost the end of March. We have had some very mild days, but as many chilly rainy windy days. I will be happy for the first warm days.
Eli is officially 1 now. He is not walking yet, but it won't be long. He will stand there not holding on to anything, when he realizes it he just crouches down to the floor.
He is such a sweetie pie.
Never dreamed i would have so much love for a baby that is as much if not more than when I had my own babies. Being a Grandma is wonderful.

Busy Busy Busy

Going from working part time to full time is a big change. My free time is so much more valuable to me now.
I have worked 4 nights at the nursing home (my new job). My feet ache but I know that is to be expected. My first paycheck will be welcomed. After being on unemployment for awhile.
Can't believe Elias will be turning 1 in one week!
I am so blessed.

Eli is on the go, so it is hard to get a picture of his face. But this shows his beautiful wavey hair that is coming in.

Clinicals

I haven't worked in a facility for a few years now. I had forgotten the loneliness,the desperation,the sadness. I had also forgotten the slower pace,the thank-you's,the kiss on my hand from a woman in her wheelchair with the same name as my grandma. The old man with his violin and a long song list. He asked me to pick a song any song.I picked You are my sunshine. Then he played it with his one eye bandaged up and his skinny, shaking arms. He was so happy I was standing there listening.I was happy I had wandered into his room.
The rewards are so wonderful they more than make up for the nasty tasks that come along with taking care of daily needs of the elderly.
Thanks to the bad weather of yesterday last night I am now 2 days behind in class. I am not worried. I am getting there. It also gave me a few more days to study for my test.
I am looking forward to Eli coming on valentines day to spend the night with me.
Thank you for all my blessings Lord.
Enjoy this song by 33miles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYdfH71lHAE

It has been a busy week and a half. Started my Cna class in terre haute last monday. I will be done in 7 more days. Then I will have to pass my state testing.
Wow I had really gotten lazy. My legs are hurting so much so I know I am not used to the standing,crouching,walking fast that waiting on the residents requires. But I am thankful for my 2 legs when I think of the female resident who is missing a leg and just had knee surgery on her remaining leg. I have no right to complain. I am so blessed.
Working with the elderly can be so rewarding! They are for the most part very enjoyable to be around. But, they are very unsure of us knowing we are only students.
ok back to studying!!!
Oh yeah, the moon picture! I had to take it the other night, it had this awesome rainbow looking ring around it too but that doesn't show up in my picture. They called it a wolf moon on the news.

Winter is getting on my nerves

I worked at the funeral home today. All funerals are sad but today the woman was the age of my oldest sister. We just can't forget to live life to the fullest and don't hold any grudges. Life is too short.
It rained all day. My back yard now has puddles that won't soak in. The geese have invaded Cayuga. They just fly in their V formations but circle above town all day long. There are hundreds of them. They hang out at our neighbors pond all night honking. Phoenix doesn't really want to go outside at night he hears them and just really hurries to get back inside.
Eli is getting around very well. He has mastered crawling. He can get where he wants to go really fast now! He pulls up carefully sits down looks around and goes to explore something else. I am sure walking is just around the corner. He loves when I read to him now. He gives kisses now instead of head butting thank goodness! I was worried he would knock out my front teeth a few times!
He is getting more hair that is reddish more than blonde.
This Mickey mouse toy was handed down from his cousin Ava. He loves it and it plays the mickey mouse grand march song!

Elias is 10 months old today!

I never dreamed how happy being a grandma would make me.

This is a picture of Miranda and Eli on Christmas. He is playing with his Scout doggy we got him. You program the stuffed dog to play songs including Eli's name, also with his favorite food,pet,color etc. It will even say Good night Eli and I love you Eli.

I can't believe in 2 short months he will already be turning 1.

New Year, New Beginnings

Well we have made it through the first week of 2010! I can remember when we were all worried and wondering what the year 2000 would bring. Y2K! rushing to the store to stock up on stuff just in case. All the bottled water was sold out. Of course nothing happened and here we are 10 years later. All I know is that those 10 years went fast.

I am going to try posting a new picture each week of 2010. This weeks picture is just a cold snowy Indiana corn field in January!

I am sure I will post plenty of Eli since I have more than 150 of him already. He has brought me so much joy. I love rocking him to sleep then hold him just a few more minutes so I can feel his fuzzy baby hair on my cheek and smell his baby freshness!

We got about 7 inches of snow in the last few days. I know because I measured it. It was a fluffy light snow the kind you just have to push out of the way. Phoenix liked it. He chased the shovel as I shoveled the driveway and side walk.

I am starting my cna class in february now. I got bumped from the january class to february. But its okay maybe the weather will be better in february! I am pretty excited and can't wait to be back to work full time again! I am really looking forward to a fresh new start.