Elijah funnies

One of the reasons I keep up on this blog is so I can write down things Elijah is doing so I can always remember them. Here are a few things that have been making us laugh lately..

I have mentioned that Elijah has been really interested in walking lately. One of his favorite things to do when Dan and I are both home is to walk back and forth between the two of us. He is getting SO GOOD at taking steps on his own! I tried to get it on video, but he shuts down when the pressure of the video camera is on him. Anyway, I think it is so cute how he says, "Walk 'a Daddy!" when I have a hold of him and "Walk 'a Mama!" when Dan has him. Then he says, "Ready, set, GO!" and takes off. His little bobble is so stinkin' cute. I could just eat that kid up.

There is a new show on Disney called Jungle Junction and Elijah is IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW. Seriously. In love! He asks to watch it all the time: "'Atch dunshin' pease, Mama?" How can I say no to that? Lately as I am putting him to bed we chat about all of the characters on the show. He loves talking about the Hippo Bus and ElleVan the elephant and Bobby the Bird.

Speaking of Bobby the Bird! Last week at PT, his therapists got out a bunch of beanie bag animals for Elijah to play with. One of them was a bird that looked exactly like Bobby from Jungle Junction. In his most excited voice, he exclaimed, "BOBBY!! Oh Bobby!" and started hugging and kissing him. Bobby then had to accompany him throughout the entire session. It was super cute. This week at PT as he did his standard walk in his walker down to the play room when we first got there, he started screaming out for Bobby: "Boooobbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyy!!??" So again, Bobby stayed with him through the rest of the session. When the session was over, he looked at Bobby and said in a very sad voice, "Bye Bobby."

Elijah has been such a polite little man lately. He says, "'Ank 'oo, Mama," and "'Ank 'oo, Daddy," all the time and it makes my heart melt.

When we ask Elijah something that his answer is "no" to, he says "Ohhh" as he gives us a squinty, furrow-browed look and shakes his head.

He has been very interested in his stuffed animals lately. I think his most recent additions, Mama and Baby Elephant and Mama and Baby Giraffe (from the SD Zoo) have sparked this, perhaps? He snuggles and loves on his animals all the time (and plays music for them), when he has never given them the time of day before.

Elijah has been exploring different emotions recently. He likes to say, "HAPPY!" as he gives us a huge happy face. Then it's, "sad," as he gives us a very pathetic and sad-looking face. Then, "MAD!" as he pounds a fist on the table.

I mentioned this on Facebook already, but Elijah has been really into counting. Every night when we go upstairs to read books before bed we count as he is climbing up the stairs. He can count pretty well (with only one or two mistakes) all the way to 30. Except the end of it goes, "twenty-eight, twenty-nine, TWENTY-TEN!!!" Dan and I (whoever is following him up the stairs) tickle him after every fifth number, so FIVE!, TEN!, FIFTEEN!, TWENTY!, TWENTY-FIVE!, and TWENTY-TEN! are very exciting numbers. Sometimes in the middle of dinner or at another random time throughout the day, he will shout out, "TEN!!" and start squealing like he is being tickled, of course so one of us (preferably Dan) will start tickling him.


p.s. H1N1 vaccinations are IN IN IN! They are saving Elijah a dose for next Tuesday since his cardiologist wants him to wait till after his heart cath to get it.

Kind of a side note here. Elijah has not been eating very well lately, which is very unusual for him. It has me a little bit worried, but we are hoping it is just a 2-year-old phase that will pass. If you feel inclined, please pray about this!

Fun videos

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments and emails after my last depressing post. Things are so much better today. Elijah woke up (still coughing, but) in MUCH better spirits. It is a good day. Aside from that coughing.

One good thing about the rainy, cold weekend is that Dan has been at home with us. Since he is here to help out, I have time to do things like uploading video! Enjoy!


This is from a few weeks ago, before the Big Elijah Sickness and in the midst of mine (sorry for the yucky voice). Elijah's therapists were at our house when he crawled over to the ukulele, sat on his OT's lap and serenaded us all with a song.


Here is an example of Elijah's very nasal talking and his very cute counting.


I was trying to record Elijah giggling during his eye goop application (silly boy), but I missed it. Instead, you can see the cute little smoocher in action.


Aren't these giggles the best? And I love how he forces Dan's hand to his feet so he will tickle them, too.

Two things I learned today

1. Elijah is terrified of hair dryers. I never "do" my hair. Unless I'm in a wedding, or unless there is an equally big event. It's one of those things that takes up too much precious time for me. Because of this, Elijah has never seen a hair dryer. Since I got my hair done yesterday, I figured I would try to style it for church this morning. The two of us were hanging out in the bathroom and I turned on the hair dryer. I'm pretty sure I would have seen the same reaction from him if someone were murdering me in front of his eyes. He was absolutely terrified. I turned it off and tried again a few more times, but always got the same horrified reaction, so I gave up. I guess I'm not meant to have stylish hair.

2. Elijah knows how to count! I heard him playing in his room this morning, counting his toys. He was saying, "uh, oo, ee, oh" (oo and ee are said with a closed mouth). I went into his room and asked him how old he was. He said, "Oo!" I asked him how many balls were in front of him. He said, "Oh!" I asked him to count to four. He said, "Uh, oo, ee, oh!" WHAT?! I was pleasantly surprised. My little smartypants.


Only our boy would be more interested in the gate itself than the many toys sitting behind him. He stared at the gate and touched it over and over, totally intrigued by it.


Eventually he made his way back to the toys.

Dan is still at the dropzone. He has been working all day. Elijah and I made it to the park, and we played outside for a bit. It is a beautiful Minnesota day. Right now he is munching on a peanut butter sandwich. When he's done we are going to finger paint and then take a bath and get ready for bed. Thanks for checking in! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.