Elliott: Year 2, Week 39 (May 16

Elliott: Year 2, Week 39 (May 16 - May 22, 2004)

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Jamie sheperds the bunnies
Clover and Gus enjoy a moment together - they get outside a few times a year, and of course they sit on a little scrap of blanket - sigh!
meanwhile, Elliott must scoop and dump

Elliott has entered the Matchbox phase - he's a TOTAL addict
Jasmine shares her BeepBeep
Shadow's all set for supper!

Aww, caught by Dad!
Elliott rediscovers his awesome ice cream quilt that our friend Heidi (Jamie's mom) made him
Eat it?

Sharing ice cream with his teeny bunny
Dada
Ahh, that tickly snake tongue!

snake telephone?

The dawn of the sentence!
Elliott can now say "mama boot" "dada boot" "dada boot" correctly.
He's on a major "baby" kick - he carries around elmo, baby clown, baby lion, and my cabbage patch kids. He feeds them, gives them hugs, asks me to nurse them, and gives them toys and cars. He wants to play catch with them and says "baby do it" or "elmo throw it".
He continues to love cars, trucks and tractors. He anthropomorphosizes he'll say things like, "chipper - wood - tree - eatit - um num num num!" He hands people things and says, "thank you!" (tank-ooooo). He'll say please if you ask him to, but hardly ever if you don't remind him. He's getting there. Elliott will try to say anything we say.. we're really having to be careful. I was talking about a "poopy butt" with a friend (referring to a bunny with loose stools), and he jumped around saying "poopy butt" - luckily it wore off quickly. He loves repeating us - it's like living with a little parrot. As I'm typing this, he just randomly said, "nincompoop", followed by "elmopoop", "toypoop", and "netpoop". HA. It's all coming together, verbally. Some favorites are "spiny ball", "mint ruck" (cement truck), "water tower" and "steep bank" (going down to the river).
We went to see Jasmine and Wendy for the day this week. The kids took a bath after dinner, and had a blast. They have a nice, big deep tub, and Elliott got down under water on his belly, and kept saying, "under water!". He actually dunked his whole face a few times on purpose, and seemed to have fun with it. Yay! I'm so happy he's not afraid of the water. Elliott loves the bath so much that we can't take him out of the tub until the water is all drained out, or he flips. Once there's no more water, he understands it's over, and will let us take him out. Then it's a mad wrestle with the towel, to try him off, get some skin cream on him and a diaper and shirt before he goes zooming off.

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Jamie sheperds the bunnies	Clover and Gus enjoy a moment together - they get outside a few times a year, and of course they sit on a little scrap of blanket - sigh!	meanwhile, Elliott must scoop and dump
Elliott has entered the Matchbox phase - he's a TOTAL addict	Jasmine shares her BeepBeep	Shadow's all set for supper!
Aww, caught by Dad!	Elliott rediscovers his awesome ice cream quilt that our friend Heidi (Jamie's mom) made him	Eat it?
Sharing ice cream with his teeny bunny	Dada	Ahh, that tickly snake tongue!
	snake telephone?
The dawn of the sentence! Elliott can now say "mama boot" "dada boot" "dada boot" correctly. He's on a major "baby" kick - he carries around elmo, baby clown, baby lion, and my cabbage patch kids. He feeds them, gives them hugs, asks me to nurse them, and gives them toys and cars. He wants to play catch with them and says "baby do it" or "elmo throw it". He continues to love cars, trucks and tractors. He anthropomorphosizes he'll say things like, "chipper - wood - tree - eatit - um num num num!" He hands people things and says, "thank you!" (tank-ooooo). He'll say please if you ask him to, but hardly ever if you don't remind him. He's getting there. Elliott will try to say anything we say.. we're really having to be careful. I was talking about a "poopy butt" with a friend (referring to a bunny with loose stools), and he jumped around saying "poopy butt" - luckily it wore off quickly. He loves repeating us - it's like living with a little parrot. As I'm typing this, he just randomly said, "nincompoop", followed by "elmopoop", "toypoop", and "netpoop". HA. It's all coming together, verbally. Some favorites are "spiny ball", "mint ruck" (cement truck), "water tower" and "steep bank" (going down to the river). We went to see Jasmine and Wendy for the day this week. The kids took a bath after dinner, and had a blast. They have a nice, big deep tub, and Elliott got down under water on his belly, and kept saying, "under water!". He actually dunked his whole face a few times on purpose, and seemed to have fun with it. Yay! I'm so happy he's not afraid of the water. Elliott loves the bath so much that we can't take him out of the tub until the water is all drained out, or he flips. Once there's no more water, he understands it's over, and will let us take him out. Then it's a mad wrestle with the towel, to try him off, get some skin cream on him and a diaper and shirt before he goes zooming off.