Its nearly Christmas already...

Christmas eve to be specific...

Eli is sleeping...

...so i thought I would take a few minutes to update. Things have been busy to say the very least, work, triyng to catch up with Eli as he runs around the house, and life in general.

Work has been busy for both of us. Sara continues to build her client base, and I am still teaching and running the theater at the HS.

Eli is growing so fast, he turned two just over a month ago. When he was last in to the doctor, she said he was 35in tall and 31lbs. It seems like he is taller every day. He still has a strong obsessions with cars (both the movie and in reality), trains, pretty much anything with wheels really.

He knows his shapes and colors, not pentagon yet, but hes got octagon down. I drew a variety of shapes on his drawing board, as I completed each shape he toldme what it was: star, circle, moon, octagon, oval, square, moon (like a crescent moon), and triangle. I colored them in and asked him what color each shape was with out pointing to them, he go the color to the shape correct, it was so cool.
He loves music, most recently Christmas music. He regularly sings jingle bells while walking around the house, its pretty cute. He seems to come home from daycare with new songs regularly, it is so cool to see him in the rear view mirror singing "If your happy and you know it" and going through the motions.



We took Eli to a petting zoo/ farm on one of our trips north.. not only animals but a playground!



Eli loved the chickens, he would make a loud noise and they all would scatter away from him.


The baby cow was a hit...


The kittens and bunnies, well, he loved them...

we made it out with out him adopting, or hurting either of them... he wasn't exactly nice about petting them.


Eli got to see all kinds of birds and fuzzy things, he had a great time.


Eli has become very nimble, he is very fast.. it seemed like he just learned to walk not long ago. He can get on every piece of furnature we have..


Which leads us to our bump in the night segment of our blog update...
We didn't realize how lucky we were, what a piece of luxury we had. At his age only 2 percent of kids still were in a crib, did I mention he could get on any piece of furniture?
Needless to say the 4:00am thud followed with a door handle rattling "hey I am awake, its dark and this door is still shut" made us go from his crib:


to the toddler bed


when I made it, I finished all of the pieces at the same time, so it would be a quick change over from one bed to the next, and its good thing I did, he definitely had it figured out. The changeover only took 10 minutes or so, getting him to sleep in this new found freedom was the challenge. The first night was hard, like he was 2 months old again. It didnt take long of us just putting him back in bed and he had it.

Eli went trick-or-treating this year as Yoda...


We only went to a few houses, but he had a great time. The chocolate on the ride home was lots of fun...



Eli on his second birthday...

.. I took a bunch of pictures of Eli on his birthday before I had to be off to work. I was in tech week for our main stage show, so we delayed celebrating for a bit, he didn't seem to mind.


Much more soon....

Pat