At Home With The Blaisses

Joel and I lost a good friend today. At 5:30 this morning, our friend Shelly Jones lost her battle with Crohn's Disease. She left behind a wonderful husband and beautiful 8 month old baby girl - Ella Shoshanah (many of you have seen her birth announcement on my fridge).

I am completely in shock that this has happened, despite the fact that I felt it in my heart for the past few days.

If you feel it in your heart, a collection has been started by all of her friends on TheBump.com (which is how I met her). Please visit Shelly's Support Team

Here are a few pics of Shelly that I have....

Eli has developed such a little personality in the last few weeks! He loves to coo at people, and especially his best friends - "Mr. Octopus" (on his Baby Einstein playmat) and "Monkey & Parrot" (on his bouncy seat). Here are a few of the silly faces he enjoys making...there is also a video of the first time I caught his smile on film, and a few stills from the video. Enjoy!

This post is a little (okay, a lot) behind - sorry! Eli has certainly "woken up" in the last few weeks, so it's been a little hard to find time to share him with everyone. Here is Eli's official 2 month (and 1 day - I'm always late) picture and stats (from 11/5):