Oh how he grows!

Today I took zero pictures. I KNOW! That really shouldn't be allowed when I have such a cute kid :) We had a fun day-Kristi and I went garage sale shopping this morning, and we went to see Toy Story 3 tonight. Eli LOVED the movie. I don't think he moved a muscle...well, I take that back...there were a couple of 'scary' parts, and he reached over and held my hand. It was cute :) We went to Dairy Queen afterwards where I ate way too much...

That was today.

The point of this post, however, is to share how much Eli's vocabulary has grown in the last week and a half that we've been here. It's kind of unbelievable-all of a sudden he seems to be learning new words every day. Since we've been here he has said for the first time: 'Aww, man!', 'cool', 'dude' (as in 'what's happenin' dude'...yeah...he said that...), 'cute', 'outside' (that was a new one just today), 'grandpa', 'tv', 'choo-choo', 'puppy', 'please', 'poop' (lovely...), 'pee-pee', 'water', 'baseball' and a few more that I can't think of right now. He also knows ALL of his letters. You can ask him any letter, and he knows it's sound. We pulled into Walmart the other day, and immediately said 'wuh-wuh'...ya know, the sound 'W' makes. I can go through the entire alphabet with him. When we drive down the road, any time he sees a letter he will say it's sound. Pretty cute. He also knows many animal sounds-dog, cat, duck, lion, tiger, monkey, owl, and says 'stinky-stinky' if he sees a picture of a skunk.

It's been very fun to watch. I love watching him learn new things. He's also really playing with cars more and more. He'll drive his little cars around and make the 'vroom' sound as he drives. He'll carry a little car around with him for a long time. He likes wheels :) Anything with wheels, he immediately says 'car!'...even if it's mom & dad's camper, or a tractor driving by :)

I'm quite convinced that when we get back home, he's going to get off the plane, see his daddy, and say 'Hello father, how are you today? We had a delightful flight. I am simply ecstatic to be home!'...well...we'll see about that...