Almost Three

Here are some stories for Papa's notebook:

Elijah keeps telling me that he is three.  I tell him, "no, you are two".  He says "Robin says I almost 3". Well, ok, but you are still 2.

The other day we were going to a play group and we were in the car.
Elijah: Dis not the way to the playground.
Me: We are going to a different playground tonight.
Elijah: I no wanna go to different playground. (repeated several times during the 5 minute drive)
Me: Well, that's where we are going.
We pull up to the playground.
Elijah: I love the new playground!!

We have been potty training and it's been going pretty well except for he seems to be holding in #2.  We've gotten it a few times on the potty and Elijah gets chocolate when he goes poo poo in the potty.  So as soon as he is done he says "I get chocolate".  Last night he went and then when I was tucking him into bed later he says, "Mama, say prouofyou"
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"Mama, say proufyou. I go poo poo on the potty"
"oh! I'm proud of you for going poo poo on the potty".
Then he grinned.

Catch up

Wow, it has been a while since I posted. The summer is almost gone already. I've been busy with my new job along with everything else.

Fourth of July weekend we went to my parents house and Elijah got to see his cousins from Indiana that we don't get to see very often. They played in the water and Elijah got to see lightening bugs (which later he was calling "yellow ants").

Elijah is getting so big. At the beginning of the summer he started talking in sentences, which I thought I would never get used to. It surprised me everytime he said something. But now, of course, it doesn't phase us. Although he cracks me up with some of things he says. We got rid of his booster seat at the table and I said, "Now you have a big boy chair!" And later he said, "Mama, you have a gurl chair?" He's lost almost all the little kid chub that they have on their hands and legs. I love watching him get bigger and understand things. Even though the constant "why" asking drives me nuts sometimes. Well, the next big boy thing is potty training...ugh.

Yeah Spring!!

The forecast all week was that it was going to be rainy and storming all weekend. So, after playing on the soggy playground on Saturday morning, we were really excited to see the sun in the afternoon.

We took the "L" to Chinatown for the afternoon. Elijah loves to ride the train. We walked around and saw lots of fun stuff, including live eels, lots of things with dragons on them and we had some smoothies with boba (that's tapioca - which sounds gross but is actually awesome). Elijah got a school bus at one of the stores, very Asian. When I put him to bed that night he said "I pway 'chool bus". That was $4 well-spent.

Sunday was hot and sunny. We planned to go to the zoo but the bus was rerouted for some marathon downtown and we ended up checking it out. We went for a walk by the river, which Elijah still recalls had the "green water" from St. Patty's day. We walked down Michigan Ave. and then, then we went to Baskin Robins. Elijah and Micah "shared" some cinnamin "red hot" ice cream that was bright red. I tried to share my peanut butter cup ice cream but Elijah just wanted "red i'e cream". I'm pretty sure he ate as much, if not more than Micah. After ice cream we went to the Lego store which had tables of legos for Elijah to play with and crazy huge displays made out of legos. Lots of excitement wore our little guy out and he fell asleep on the "l" on the way home.

It was great to be outside and enjoy the sunshine and warm weather. It's not quite as warm today, but hopefully more days like those are on the horizon. I wish I had thought to take the camera with us, but oh well.

Watch me!

Elijah: Mama! Mama! Mama!
Me: What?
Elijah: Mama! Mama!
Me (going to the hallway where he is yelling from): What?
Elijah: I go fast! (as he pushes his dump truck down the hall)

Oh Fall, How I've Missed You

Yesterday we went to the Pumpkin Patch through the Park District at Nicols Park. They had pony rides, petting zoo and of course a pumpkin patch.  Elijah loved to watch the ponies but said a definate "No" when I asked if he wanted to ride one.  But he had fun on the slide.

Today we went to the Garfield Conservatory and spent some time enjoying nature. Ah, I hope these 70 degree fall days stick around!