my sweet little E

All of my children are literally growing up right before my eyes, but none so fast as my baby. How can this little guy already be almost sixteen months old. I am not ready for him to grow up and talk to me, get into mischief with the other two, have an opinion of his own, no longer want my cuddles, dress himself, and all the other things that happen with age.

The one good thing is that he is completely content to remain my little baby for the most part. He loves to snuggle and cuddle, he loves to be babied and loves to be held. he also has the most loveable little cheeks that I want to kiss and pinch nearly all the time. he patiently tolerates this as well. good kid :)

he has learned a few words so far which i do not want to forget:

mama

dada

bu-bye--along with a wave of the hand

hi

thank you

he understand soo much now and acutally follows directions part of the time. here are some fun facts about my little Eli:

he loves to throw things away in the garbage, i have had to pull out shoes, toys, toilet paper rolls, and even our home phone from the trash can.

he loves balls and loves to shoot hoops with our basketball hoop.

he loves to laugh and has the cutest full belly laughter that lights up our house.

he is such a softie and is impossible to be angry with.

he cries like crazy when he gets scared, or doesn't get his way.....which means he almost always gets his way :)

he loves playing with his siblings and doing big kid things (thus him attempting to ride Robby's trike in the pictures below)

he is a fantastic eater and some of his favorite food items include scrambled eggs, hot chocolate, PB and J sandwiches, juice, spaghetti, noodles of any kind, apple slices, pizza, buttermilk pancakes, bread, and of course ice cream.

he cries every single day at swim lessons. he only has 2-3 weeks of this torture left and then he will be an official ISR trained baby :) which is by the way the BEST program ever

oh and it totally broke my heart that he was so sad to have a babysitter to himself tonight when we took the bigger kids to "How to Train a Dragon" at the movie theater.

He will be a mess at some point when I am released from Nursery and he has to go on his own :)

I sure love my little E!

luv Momma