Eli's Words of the Day

"Boots" -- This means cookies! When Eli is hungry, he'll sometimes point at the tin where the remaining Christmas cookies are stored and say "boots, boots!", meaning: "I want cookies!" We don't really have any idea why Eli is using the word "boots" to mean "cookies", but it's cute!

When there were lots of cookies left, on occasion Eli got to play with some of them, and he would very take them out of the tin and neatly stack them on the counter (while standing on a chair to be able to reach the counter). We don't typically give Eli much at all in the way of sugary food, but in these cases, he would be able to have a treat in the form of the occasional nibble from a cookie.

I think "boots" is the only word that Eli uses where Missy and I don't understand why Eli is using it for what he is using it for. (If that makes any sense.) :-)

"Boose" -- This means train. It can either mean trains in general, or specifically, Eli's favorite book, "Tootle". As you might have guessed, "boose" is Eli's truncated version of the word "caboose"!

"Pease" -- Eli says this to mean "please!" Or more accurately, to mean "I want that bread I'm pointing at across the table over there, irrespective of the fact that I still have some vegetables on my place and that I already finished the bread you gave me earlier!" Eli has figured out that he tends to get better results from Mom and Dad when he uses the "magic word" for his requests.
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