Summer haircut

End of May 2010


Middle of June 2009


My last baby. Sigh.

Eli Counting

More baby home movies. Eli was counting little shapes in the bathtub, so for modesty's sake I am just posting the audio. The numbers one through fifteen still constitute about half of his spoken vocabulary, but he's saying more and more things every day. Fun times.

Tonight

The summer evening light is very nice in our bedroom these days. I noticed it a few nights ago and finally managed to go get the camera and take some pictures of Eli after his bath. He is playing peekabo with his pj shirt, which is why his arms are thrown back over his head like that. I just noticed he's also holding a pen, not exactly sure why. He says his name now (just omitting the "l" sound), which he learned from playing this game. He says, "Ee-i? Ee-i? Ee-i?" while he has the shirt over his head and then he emerges triumphantly from underneath. Over and over and over. It just never gets old.

May Flowers

I found this cool field of wildflowers while hiking with the girls and my friends Larry and Cayden and Erin. Derek and I took Eli back one evening to try to get some pictures. I have more to edit. The second is not a great picture of Eli, but it is a nice picture of the field. Since I picked it out to edit during the short window of time that I had available, I guess it shows where my priorities really are.




I know I always talk about how Eli doesn't have many words that he says. He is up to about 5 or 6 words at almost 22 months. So I am sure you can imagine Derek's surprise when he picked Eli up at daycare and his teachers were bursting with excitement to tell about how Eli counted to 12! He did it for us at home, too. You have to use your imagination for the consonant sounds, but all the vowels and syllables are there. Aaah, Oooo, Eeeee, Oooor, Iiiii, Iiiiik, Eeeeden,... We wanted to videotape it but we couldn't find the battery charger for the camera, so you'll all have to take my word for it. My boy's got mad skillz.

I spoke with Alex and she reminded me that Louisa did almost this same thing at the same age. So he's following in great footsteps!