The month of January for Eli

I feel like Eli has grown up so much in the month of January, so I thought I should probably document some things he has been up to. 

Good day for trampoline jumping! 

-He has really developed a love of being read to. His favorite books are the Little Blue truck books.

-He's starting to say more words correctly...like his name! For the longest time he called himself Ahlee. Now if he starts to say it that way, he'll correct himself. Also, Grandma has been paka or pacorn for a long time. He now occasionally says grama. He still holds strong with saying Jayhawk as "shecok". That can be embarrassing in public sometimes. He can say papa, all his cousins names, and aunts and uncles names really well. 

-He's started really fighting the act of going "night night". He still goes to sleep pretty easily once he's in bed, but when we say it's time to go to bed, he turns into an ugly little monster. 

-He usually wakes up with some crazy bed head but hasn't ever gotten off his bed until we go get him (and it would be easy because it's just the mattress on the floor but don't tell him). 

This lasted all of 1 minute. Eli couldn't settle down to sleep when daddy was right there. 

-He's sleeping on his big bed really well. 

-He'll sit on the potty but really just likes to sit for one second and then "wipe". 

-He called me Cindy the other day. Sure caught me off guard.

-Does not like when I sing to him (except the song I sing to him before he goes to sleep).  :(

-We've started doing my cousin's preschool curriculum. If you need something to help you out, check it out http://www.abcjesuslovesme.com/. 

Helping mom get supper ready.

-Says "hold you?" "help you?" "carry you?" when he wants those things for himself. I love it! 

-When he talks on the phone with Brent he says "where are you?".

-Has some trouble with not pushing other kiddos. For a long time whenever he said his cousin Tynlee's name it was followed with "no push". "Tynlee, no push." He is doing better. 

-Those pesky 2 year molars are making their appearance. I know 1 is all the way in, but it's hard to tell on the rest.

-When he agrees with you he says, "yeah yeah, okay".

-We're working on "no thank you" instead of "NOOOOOOO".

A look at that bed head and some preschool coloring in the background.