Elliot Newsletter - May 2012

Elliot - May has been a busy month so far as preschool starts to wrap up. You continue to love it there and talk about all of your friends. Sometimes your friends even pretend come home and live in your 'house'. You love to take off all of the couch cushions and build your house. Sometimes they are quite elaborate and many people live with us. Though usually Louise doesn't live there, she lives next door with Cece (our neighbor). What??? You will offer to make us 'food' from your house. Typically you only have pumpkin pie with whipped cream in the fridge and no utensils. So we pretend to eat a lot of pie with our hands. You laugh as you tell us that the bath tub is in the kitchen and 10 people sleep in one bed. Watching your imagination work is such a joy.

Sometimes you hold 'performances' in your house for guests. You serve pretend popcorn and candy and sing three songs; "Baa Baa Blacksheep", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". Very impressive. You have had a couple of skinned knees and elbows from preschool. To you they are major - and you are so careful to remind us not to touch it every time you get dressed.

You continue to have a serious fear of bugs. Last week you had a nightmare that woke you up screaming that there were big, black, bugs crawling all over your bed. Poor baby... Favorite foods continue to be grilled cheese, oatmeal, waffles, bacon, salami, peapods, cantaloupe and bread.bread.bread. Playing with my iPad is a frequent request. Before our trip to Mexico, I downloaded quite a few games for you. Every couple of weeks you have a new favorite. A few weeks ago it was Stack the States. We must have played it 100 times. You quickly impressed us by being able to identify all of the US states by shape. We all are feeling smarter about our US geopgraphy now=) These days it is a golf game you love to play with daddy. You are a lover of all games, E. As we have had great weather, we have been spending a ton of time outside. You love to help weed or sweep in the backyard and have also become quite good at play tee ball. Always on the move, always learning something new. Such a wonder you are. I am honored to be your mommy. Love you, Mommy