I so cold Mommy!

We were at a friends house the other day and the kids were swimming, Elijah got out and I had forgotten a towel. While my friend was getting him one Elijah with chattering teeth was saying over and over "I so cold Mommy, I so cold Mommy, I so cold Mommy" he got really frustrated and said "I NOT HAPPY MOMMY!"

too cute :)

Swimming like a fish!

Elijah is swimming so well! He did a lap across the entire pool yesterday - (the pool is only about 20 feet but he is only 4 :) He has been enjoying playing with Jonah and Isabella and learning "dives" (kung fu etc. type jumps) into the pool. He likes to hold onto Mom & Dad and do Kangaroo hops across the pool, his head goes under water with ours and he does not even mind! Today we went to a friends house, it was a amazing that Elijah could be in the pool and was perfectly fine with us just watching from the patio.

Way to go Elijah - you are an amazing little swimmer!

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!