Jesus is in Santa's heart.

Elijah's school will be hosting Santa in December. Elijah noticed on the radio that "Jesus" was mentioned. He then said "Santa is coming to my school" so I said (trying to make the connection) "but Jesus in not coming to your school is he?" and Elijah said "Noooooo . . ." (sounding a little confused) so I said "Jesus is in your heart, right" Elijah then had a look like oh now I understand, and he replied "yes! and Jesus is in Santa's heart!"

"No LOUD girls my room!"

We have a rule in our house that noone can go into someone elses bedroom without permission (of course all the kids come in our bedroom but that's another story . . .) Elijah loves to break this rule and get the other kids very frustrated. The rule was pretty much made up because he tends to go and find things in their rooms and take them and hide them in his room. He thens says - "noone come my room!" because then Jonah and Isabella will take back their things!

Isabella put a sign on her door "No boys allowed" - Elijah scribbled on a piece of paper and said "No LOUD girls my room!" -

I got tracks . . .

We were talking about the Easter Bunny leaving "tracks" and trying to remember if we had ever seen any tracks he had left . Well Elijah stops us and says "I got tracks" so we said "oh, you saw some tracks the Easter Bunny left?" he goes running to his room and comes back with a piece of his track from his Train set. "here's tracks, Mommy!"

I am just loving that he is talking and all the misinterpretations of the English language you get to enjoy with a little ones speech!

4th Birthday!

4 February 2007

Elijah had a really fun birthday party! We invited the next door negihbors and all 5 of the kids and 11 kids from his Pinjarra Preschool class came. He had a Jumping Castle and Ice cream - He was so excited and it made him pretty popular at school for a while! What a cutie :)

E - Li - Jah!

16 September 2006

Elijah has begun to say his name - if asked "who are you" or "what's your name" he will say E - Li - Jah. It's very cute!
He is saying 3-4 words all the time and we are so thrilled to see that he knows hundreds of words. When he learns a new sound he uses it. He knows almost every word but just hasn't been able to say them - he must love being able to communicate as much as we are enjoying him expressing his needs and wants for us. He is adorable and we are so thankful that his personality is being expressed now that he can talk!

Elijah obeys Mommy!

15 October 2006

It has been a bit of work to bond with Elijah, he just didn't seem to know how to bond with me in the beginning and wanted only Daddy. Lately he has been a Mommy's boy and I have been really thankful to see that he has not only shown that he loves me but that he has the ability to attach to all the important people in his life. Today I was thilled when I told Elijah he could play with his Legos after he went upstairs and put his jammies on - his initial response was "NO!" but I couldn't have been happier than when I started to count . . . "1", and before I even got to "2" he got up crying but obeying me and without any more conflict. I turned to Matt and said "that is the most important sign of good attachment I have ever seen in Elijah! He agreed. I was thinking about how it must be like that with our relationship with God also . . . when we have that strong trust we obey without much of a protest . . . I hope someday God sees the same attachment in me that I saw in Elijah today! I'm so proud of Elijah!

3 & 4 words

15 October 2006

We just returned from a week long vacation up to and at the Gold Coast. Elijah has been talking so much! While on vacation he said "No more wa ta (water) heah (here) when filling up the sand castle moat with water. He also said "Sam has Buzz" when we were putting a Buzz Lightyear Sweatshirt in his suitcase. Lots more words and phrases were said but those were the most memorable :) Wait to go Little Guy!