Eli has the last bits of a cold with lots of extra snot. Yesterday he thought it was entertaining to pick his nose and wipe the snot on the wall creating streaks of snot randomly placed at his eye level on hallway wall. Daddy told him that was inappropriate.
Eli and I were in the car coming home from toddler preschool. Eli says “I picked my nose at school today. Shari (the teacher) told me not to pick my nose. I want to pick my nose.” A few minutes later I look back at him in the car seat, watching him pick his nose.
Eli was eating pickled herring while sitting in his high chair. At 2.5 years of age he has such snobby tastes. He also has an affinity for turning on the stove dials. So, while noshing on his herring I was cooking onions and spinach in a pan for dinner. Eli wanted to reach over to [...]
Whenever I get junk mail, I give it to Eli to open. He thinks the mailman is giving him a gift. Today he opened an offer from Capital One for a credit card and looked through the pamphlet and letter. As he opened the pamphlet, he told me he was reading it, and looked at [...]
Eli likes to call people on the cell phone. He is always asking to call his cousins. He was at Grandma’s yesterday and asked Grandma to call me while I was getting some work done. She put him on the phone, and Eli says to me “Mommy I want to go home. I want to [...]
Eli became a computer genius at 1! I was looking through old photos and came across this. He used to love playing with the computer. Now his sister, about the same age as he was, loves to play with the computer. We have a different computer now, since that one died recently. One day I [...]
Eli saw skyscrapers in Blues Clues and decided that he too wanted his own sky scrapers. Here is his construction.
Isn’t it good luck in Greece when dishes break? If so, there will be lots of good luck in our house. Eli insists on helping with the dishes in the dishwasher, breaking three in the last week.
Eli, 22 months, is fascinated with Mommy and Daddy’s boots, used to survive Minnesota’s winter.
Baby Isabel, 3 months old, is 5 percentile, meaning 95 percent of other babies are bigger than her. Yesterday she did not want to take a nap after being awake for several hours. I called her father (my husband) so he could tell her that if she doesn’t sleep, she will be short like her [...]