Eli's Favorites

From left to right:

• my old phone (he's very happy I got a new one so he can have this all to himself)
• blue circle block
• red circle block (he always dumps them all off and holds onto that one)
• socks (in his hand or mouth; not on his feet)
• purple circle thing

At any given time, Eli can usually be seen hanging onto one of these 5 items. He'll just tote them around while he crawls down the hallway or plays with his other toys. It's pretty funny. He's probably the most attached to his socks for some reason, and gets very mad if I try to take them out of his hand to put them on his feet. So if he's wearing socks, he often has more socks in his hands. Weird, I know. :)

Anyway, here are some of Eli's other favorites:

• Wallets: he loves to empty our wallets of all their contents; and then he always picks out the American Express card and hangs onto it
• Food: he loves to eat, especially pasta, beans, rice, peas, pears, and avocados
• Peek-a-boo: If you say "Where's Eli?" he'll put his hand on his head (like he's hiding or something) and then he puts it down when you say "There he is!"
• Playing "chase": he loves to chase you or be chased and giggles uncontrollably when you chase him
• Music: he loves to dance to music and always looks up from what he's doing when music starts to play

(I love this picture of him sitting right in front of the stereo when I had just turned some music on)

• Emptying things: my bag, wallets, bucket of toys, trash cans, laundry basket full of clothes , etc.
• Pillows: he loves to wrestle with pillows; he just tosses them around and dives onto them and slobbers all over (beware of our couch pillows)
• Being tall enough to reach everything! Just tonight he discovered that if he gets on his tippy-toes he can open up the TV cabinet. Uh-oh.

So that's a little more about our Eli. One more week until the big b-day!