So I have been a bad blogger for the past some months. And I can't promise to be better at it. I want this blog to be sort of like a baby book since I don't have the time to make one otherwise. So it is nice to recall Eli's accomplishments here. I will recall some stories and maybe do better. But chances are I won't ;P
Where to start.
Eli is amazing. He is learning so much everyday. He is starting a language explosion, trying to repeat everything we say. Sometimes it's understandable, sometimes it's only understandable to those closest to him. Last night he was trying to hard to say his name. It was coming out like "E I E I". Friday I came home to the phrases puppy poop and butt paste. Walmart is officially known as frenchfries (which he's gotten REALLY good at saying). No and Mine are very big parts of the vocab. Mine is mostly used when he's gotten a doggie toy and is running around with it. No it used for just about everything. He very much has his own opinion and isn't afraid to tell you about it. It won't be so long until he's really talking and we all will know what he is saying. Oh and mama is officially in his regular vocab now!!! He could say it before but it was a struggle. The past few weeks though it has become easy for him. It's ok except when it's 3 in the morning and all I'm hearing is "maaamaaaa."
It's exciting. Of course he seems like the smartest boy in the world to me. He also loves sitting on the computer and watching you tube. He likes mickey mouse hot dog song, any choo choo soul songs, animals sounds (cows, chickens, geese, sheep etc), elmo videos, and Old Macdonald. We had a brief obsession with cows after we contracted with an amish guy to put a new roof on our house. We went out to his home, and he takes care of milking cows. He said we could go look and Eli was amazed. Then it was fair time and we were able to take him though all of the live stock barns. He loved it. We were standing in front of a pair of cows, and Eli was admiring the one, while the other next to his started a nice deep Mooooooooooooooo. If I could have captured the look on his face, it would have been perfect. He leaned back into me and his eyes got as big as saucers. By the 3rd barn he was running between all of the animals waving and saying "hi" and even petting some.
He follows simple commands, which is nice. Like "shut the door!" or "throw it away." he does not follow other commands like "dont flush the toilet!!" or "put that down!!!" Instead commands like that usually end up with a toilet flushed 10 times or him running behind the recliner with the telephone and hurrying up to push all the buttons before you can get him.
He's very good at running and hiding. He likes to get up the steps quick then hide half under the bed, or hide right in the middle, behind Ed's recliner. He also likes hiding under the kitchen table but I really suprised him this weekend when I went right under with him. Oh the giggles. I need to get a video camera with sound so I can record him.
Anytime you have a 'booboo' he gives kisses. Ed just had his gallbladder out and when Eli saw the lil marks from it he gets his squinty eyes and goes "oooowwwww boo booooo" and starts giving kisses. He's such an affectionate child. Giving hugs and kisses (even to virtual strangers, like the waitress at Bassetts).
We had a lil stint where he had to go to daycare. I think he was temporarily tramatized from it. He apparently is not much for playing with other lil kids his age. It was tramatic for all of us and took about 2 weeks to recover from. Not sure I'll be trying that again until he's a bit older.
He has his little 'babies' that go to bed with him (glow worm, a puppy dog, elmo, spok (like from star trek)). Oh and of course his burpies. And it's not just one burpie, it's often 3 burpies. He takes his glow worm and puts him over his shoulder, and pats his back then goes "BURRRRRRRRP!" like the glow worm let out a big one.
He can put his shoes on by himself..most of the time on the right feet. He almost entirely uses his left hand for everything and I really do believe he will be a lefty (much to Dads dismay!)
He loves playing outside and I'm a lil weary about winter setting in. And he loves going places, although you have to either go in the morning, or after afternoon nap. He's cut himself down to 1 nap a day, mid afternoon. It's working ok.
Well that is my updates for now. I will try to post some pictures and the link to the youtube with his video's.
And if I think of anything else of course, I'll update!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Mom's a bum
I haven't taken any pictures lately. I will. This weekend :-D Eli is doing fantastic. He's very small for his age but I am tryin to take that with a grain of salt. He is in the 5% for his height and weight and actually lost half an inch between his 12 mo and 15 mo appt. o.O (someone measured wrong).
He's getting teeth galore and they are causing some issues. I feel so bad for him. I'm just hoping they come in quickly and we get it over with!!
He's a very active little kid. Always running away from you. Climbing on the table. Getting into everything... *sigh* :P It's so hard to not be yelling no all the time. He's always amazingly affectionate. I love it. He gives the best hugs and kisses and is blowing kisses now. It just melts my heart.
He loves the fact that he can go outside and pick rasberries or fresh peas (although dismayed that the strawberries are gone). He understands so well! He tries to repeat about any word you say, and often times it's just a jumble but he's getting there. He's also attempting to potty train. He can't say poop (or has no desire to?) but he will say dirty. At first it was AFTER he went. Then in the middle of it.. but now he's attempting to tell us he's dirty "right" before it happens. I've sat him on the seat a few times and he squeezes, but nothing has happened yet. It's okay. He's young and we aren't pushing it! Now if I could get him to be a little more enthusiastic about brushing his teeth.
Time is going by fast and and my baby is now a toddler. A walking, talking, able to make simple decisions on his own toddler. :-D
Life is grand!
He's getting teeth galore and they are causing some issues. I feel so bad for him. I'm just hoping they come in quickly and we get it over with!!
He's a very active little kid. Always running away from you. Climbing on the table. Getting into everything... *sigh* :P It's so hard to not be yelling no all the time. He's always amazingly affectionate. I love it. He gives the best hugs and kisses and is blowing kisses now. It just melts my heart.
He loves the fact that he can go outside and pick rasberries or fresh peas (although dismayed that the strawberries are gone). He understands so well! He tries to repeat about any word you say, and often times it's just a jumble but he's getting there. He's also attempting to potty train. He can't say poop (or has no desire to?) but he will say dirty. At first it was AFTER he went. Then in the middle of it.. but now he's attempting to tell us he's dirty "right" before it happens. I've sat him on the seat a few times and he squeezes, but nothing has happened yet. It's okay. He's young and we aren't pushing it! Now if I could get him to be a little more enthusiastic about brushing his teeth.
Time is going by fast and and my baby is now a toddler. A walking, talking, able to make simple decisions on his own toddler. :-D
Life is grand!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Some words
I know I mostly post pictures..so now I need to explain some of them.
I'm at work though and can't see what the pictures are, which I posted last night, so I'll have to go from memory.
I know there is a messy face one.. that's not abnormal. The kid is a pretty messy eater. He also enjoys throwing his food all over the floor and whatnot. I guess he thinks the dogs are starving or something. Every now and then he'll throw a fork or a plate and hit one of them. Then we get a "yulp", but in dogs the need to scrounge off of their human counterparts is stronger then their self presservation instincts.
I know there are some pictures of 'glove hands' :-D Eli likes getting into the kitchen drawers and taking out the oven mits. We then put on our glove hands and smack each other silly.
Theres some pictures of Eli messing around with vaseline. ;P The other night I left him alone for 5 minutes. 5 minutes I swear!!! He got the tub of vaseline opened and had it gobbed all on his hands, his face, the keyboard, the mouse, and the computer chair. I wasn't to happy but I wasn't that upset either because it was funny. And fyi diaper wipes work really well at cleaning up that greasy slop.
What else is going on...
Eli got in a molar. Which is strange. I thought he would get on the bottom, the teeth next to his two front teeth. Instead he threw us for a loop and got in a tooth on the top, way in the back. And of course he won't let you see in his mouth, or brush his teeth for that matter. He's very tight lipped at times.
His understanding his so amazing. For awhile now we have noticed he understands when you ask him to do certain things, like finding a pair of shorts or picking up a certain toy. My mom was babysitting him one day and said "hey you got a new toy!!" which Eli immediately ran over to and grabbed to show off. Last night I told him 'Da da' was in the bathroom and to go 'knock on the door and tell him to get the hell out of there". Eli gave me this lil look, ran over to the bathroom, started banging on the door and yelling his own jibberish version of get the hell out.
He also enjoys pushing me around when he wants my attention, which is pretty much all the time. He's pretty strong too! But he can be content to sit and get into things on his own. Especially if it's something I don't really want him to get into.
He is obsessed with our strawberry plants. You take him outside and he goes running right over 'straw straw straw" and will push through the plants and pull off the berries. I just need to teach him how to figure out what is ripe and what is not.
Well I think that is a fairly good update for now. :-D I'm sure this summer is going to be a blast!
I'm at work though and can't see what the pictures are, which I posted last night, so I'll have to go from memory.
I know there is a messy face one.. that's not abnormal. The kid is a pretty messy eater. He also enjoys throwing his food all over the floor and whatnot. I guess he thinks the dogs are starving or something. Every now and then he'll throw a fork or a plate and hit one of them. Then we get a "yulp", but in dogs the need to scrounge off of their human counterparts is stronger then their self presservation instincts.
I know there are some pictures of 'glove hands' :-D Eli likes getting into the kitchen drawers and taking out the oven mits. We then put on our glove hands and smack each other silly.
Theres some pictures of Eli messing around with vaseline. ;P The other night I left him alone for 5 minutes. 5 minutes I swear!!! He got the tub of vaseline opened and had it gobbed all on his hands, his face, the keyboard, the mouse, and the computer chair. I wasn't to happy but I wasn't that upset either because it was funny. And fyi diaper wipes work really well at cleaning up that greasy slop.
What else is going on...
Eli got in a molar. Which is strange. I thought he would get on the bottom, the teeth next to his two front teeth. Instead he threw us for a loop and got in a tooth on the top, way in the back. And of course he won't let you see in his mouth, or brush his teeth for that matter. He's very tight lipped at times.
His understanding his so amazing. For awhile now we have noticed he understands when you ask him to do certain things, like finding a pair of shorts or picking up a certain toy. My mom was babysitting him one day and said "hey you got a new toy!!" which Eli immediately ran over to and grabbed to show off. Last night I told him 'Da da' was in the bathroom and to go 'knock on the door and tell him to get the hell out of there". Eli gave me this lil look, ran over to the bathroom, started banging on the door and yelling his own jibberish version of get the hell out.
He also enjoys pushing me around when he wants my attention, which is pretty much all the time. He's pretty strong too! But he can be content to sit and get into things on his own. Especially if it's something I don't really want him to get into.
He is obsessed with our strawberry plants. You take him outside and he goes running right over 'straw straw straw" and will push through the plants and pull off the berries. I just need to teach him how to figure out what is ripe and what is not.
Well I think that is a fairly good update for now. :-D I'm sure this summer is going to be a blast!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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