Cuckoo

Elijah has developed quite an affection for clocks for some reason. When we're reading Goodnight Moon he has to point out the two clocks in the room (one on the mantle, one on the bedside table) on every page on which they appear. Don't even think about turning that page until he's done it either - he'll just turn it back until he points at each clock!

At Grandma Amanda's there is a cuckoo clock that Grandma got from Great Grandma and has hanging on her wall. Eli LOVES the cuckoo! He'll go and stand underneath it and point up, going "uh uh." Then we'll tell him how much time until it cuckoos again - and he'll usually come and look at it again at almost the exact amount of time that we told him. Grandpa Terry told him 20 minutes when we were there a few weeks ago and Eli went and played and then came back to the clock within a minute of it going! Then last week I told him 5 minutes and he came back at almost the exact time again! Kind of neat. Could be coincidence, or my son could just be brilliant. I'll go with brilliant . . . or maybe he's just cuckoo! :)