Eli Updates

Eli does puzzles and loves them now. He has one with musical instruments that makes noise. He loves it and he has a great time pretending with the instruments. During blanket time yesterday, Maddux grabbed the guitar piece to chew on and Eli took it from her saying, "Dat's Misser Hazelton's". (Mr. H plays the acoustic guitar in our praise band at church.)

Eli is also singing so much more each day. He loves "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", and he'll ask for it by name ("John Jacob") often. He also recites songs from our 'church moonic' CD all the time.

Eli's memory is astounding. Seriously. He remembers random things from long ago, for starters. Most recently though, his memory has proven to be nothing short of photographic. I read him a book before bed last night and I left out a word here or there only to have him fill it in without missing a beat. Then I tried to challenge him so I left out a whole line. Again, he jumped right in. And the book in question was not a simple baby book we read all the time. It was "H is for Homerun" which we used to read all the time, but it's been sitting on the shelf for several months now. And the rhymes in there use more challenging words like "nifty feat".

Yesterday we went for a walk with Tyler and his mom. Eli had a great time running with Ty and 'tackling' him (Tyler got a few tackles in as well). For the rest of the day though, all he could talk about was the group of horses we saw before our walk.