8/18/08
Okay, it's been ridiculously long since I updated. Here are a few pics from summer vacation and Eliot's 3rd birthday. He's starting preschool in a few weeks!

Eliot's World Famous Daredevil Trike Trick
(As performed at his 2nd birthday party/playgroup)

Eliot is TWO! Here is a recent batch of photos:

We went to Memphis Kiddie Park for his birthday.

Here is his new birthday toolbox and hat. He is very adept with tools and can unscrew real screws with his real screwdriver!

April 2007

4/17/07
Hello fellow Eliot fans!
Sorry it’s taken me so long to provide an update. The little guy keeps me busy! Eliot is his usual fun-loving self, learning new things every day. At 21 months, Eliot loves (in no particular order): tools, trucks, “Bob the Builder,” throwing things, drawing with crayons or colored pencils, playing outside- especially in the sandbox, dragging rakes or brooms or shovels around the yard, playgroups (he’s in two!), playing at Grammy and Grampy’s house, puzzles, looking at books and being read to, going to the library, guacamole, chewing on chicken bones (He’d make a lousy vegetarian. He’s a nut for chicken, especially the skin and bones!), climbing on things, jumping off things, being tickled, playing peek-a-boo, playing “chase me” around the dining room table, and, well, pretty much everything else too. He’s quite easy to please and quick to smile and laugh.

He knows a ton of words now though you may not always understand them. “Baba” may not sound like “screwdriver” to the untrained ear, but screwdrivers have been called babas for a couple months now, so we know what it means. Other words are easier to get. “Ahma” is hammer. “Nay-o” is nail. (Did I mention that he’s into tools?) And some words are crystal clear, like: mommy, daddy, baby, Bob, no, uh-oh. Until recently milk was “me-oh,” but he recently realized there was a hard sound on the end, and since he hasn’t mastered the “k” sound yet, he has added “t’s” to the end of milk and several other words. So milk is now “milt” or “milty,” broke is “brote,” walk is “wawt.” It’s really cute.

Eliot has been a slow teether, but he now has five teeth in front and four of his molars are mostly in. He’s a little bit small for his age, but very healthy and energetic. He still wakes to nurse about every one to three hours all night long and though I keep threatening to night-wean him, I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Sigh. Yawn. So I’m chronically sleep deprived, but some day I will miss his charming little baby-ness, so I’m just trying to treasure every minute and not wish him to grow up any faster then he already is. Paul and I are really loving being Mommy and Daddy and wouldn’t trade it for the world!

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is the original that the above picture was made from. It was my first effort using my newly downloaded photoshop-like program called The Gimp which is available for FREE instead of the hundreds of bucks that photoshop costs. Not very intuitive though, so if you get it you might want to get a how-to book to go with it.

Christmas 2006

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