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Wall Decor

Deborah — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:49:58 +0000

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.

More Nose Picking

Deborah — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:27:37 +0000

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.

No

Deborah — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:24:59 +0000

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 turn on the stove but I already had done it.

Eli kept insisting, so Dad says to Eli, do you know the letter “N” and the letter “O”? Put together, what does that say?”

Eli’s response to Daddy’s question was “Yes, it says “ON”!

Gift In The Mail

Deborah — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:51:46 +0000

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 every page. Many more gifts to come.

Pulling At My Heart

Deborah — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:19:23 +0000

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 go home Mommy.” This tore at my heart. It was the first time he had called me to say he wanted to go home. Usually he loves to play at Grandma’s with his little sister Isabel.

Later in the day Eli and I were home. Eli wanted to go upstairs with me. I didn’t really want to go upstairs. Eli told me “Let’s go upstairs NOW. Let’s go upstairs NOW.” Sometimes I play around and emphasize the words “right now”as a commemoration to my father, who passed away four years ago. When he wanted something done, he’d raise his voice and say “right now”. This meant he meant business. So, now Eli has caught on to this. Funny how the generations are connected and the memories kept alive. If only Dad could meet Eli and see the joy he brings.

Computer Genius At 1 Years Old

Deborah — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:19:44 +0000

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 was busy typing away and the screen went blank. I rebooted the computer to hear a Beep, Beep, Beep.

Anyway, now when I have the computer open, Eli says “Put it away”, which is what I used to tell him to prevent the pounding on the computer. He would fold the top down, and unplug the computer, and I would put it up high where he couldn’t reach it. Up high, continues to get higher. Someday I won’t be able to reach anything either.

Building Skyscrapers

Deborah — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:08:57 +0000

Eli saw skyscrapers in Blues Clues and decided that he too wanted his own sky scrapers. Here is his construction.

Good Luck Dish

Deborah — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:15 +0000

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.

Bigfoot Was Here

Deborah — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:36:42 +0000

Eli, 22 months, is fascinated with Mommy and Daddy’s boots, used to survive Minnesota’s winter.

Short Babies

Deborah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:46 +0000

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 mother.