Building, playing, talking . . . another week in Eli's life!

The last week Elijah has been so hilarious, and this Tuesday he did some really cute things.

First on Tuesday I was changing his diaper and his hip was making a little popping noise as I moved his leg. So I told Eli that his hip was making noises. He got a perplexed look on his face, pointed to his hip area and said, "What's in there Mommy? A hippo?" That made me laugh so hard, and then I had to explain that where his leg meets the rest of his body is called his hip. I guess a two year old probably is not as familiar with the word hip as he is with the word hippo!

Later Tuesday morning Elijah took out my Mom's boxes of Jello and pudding mixes, put them in his shopping cart and wheeled them all over the house (doing "groceries" as he said). After a bit I heard him get quiet - the first sign of trouble - so I went to check out what he was up to. I went into our bedroom and found that Eli had built quite the tower of Jello boxes. I couldn't believe how tall his tower was! I watched him for a bit, and even took a video, and then his tower fell over. Rather than being excited, Elijah threw a little fit and demanded that "Mommy build tower again" - acting like it was all my fault that it fell down in the first place. I tried to rebuild it but mine wasn't nearly as stable as Elijah's tower was. Guess he has the building knack.

I'll have to ask Grandpa if Jello is a structurally sound building material.

After the tower incident Eli wanted to play Reader Rabbit on the computer. Since I had to pick up our room I thought that would be a good activity for him for a bit. Jon had told me that Eli had gotten really good with the mouse, but I didn't really believe it. . . until I saw him moving the mouse around the screen really smoothly! Before he would just click the buttons over and over or scroll the little wheel, but not actually move the mouse. He picked up how to do it from somewhere though. I took a video of him playing the shape game (you move shapes with the mouse from the bottom of the screen to where they go in the outline of something - a train, a boat, etc. - and then they explode out and you get a new something to fill in with shapes). The shape game is one of Eli's favorites since the shapes explode at the end - "Boom! Boom!," as Eli says. The shape I took a video of was a train, but after that one was done a sailboat came up, and Eli said, "Grandma's boat!" The video stopped right after that (my memory card was full), but Eli kept saying, "Grandma's boat! Grandma's boat!" It was really cute!