Book recommendation from Elijah

I picked up this book at the 57th Street Children's Book Fair last weekend. I had been closely examining the Curious George books and books about trucks (we got a steam shovel one) and at the last minute I grabbed this one without really looking that closely at it.  It had animals and it was a board book and those were really the only things that caught my attention. But...Elijah thinks it is the funniest thing we have ever read.  He started cracking up the first time I read it.  He was laughing so hard that it was making me laugh so I could hardly read it! What makes him like this book so much, I can't really say, it's a cute story - kind of like the old woman who swallowed a fly, they keep sending in more animals to catch the other animal.  Seriously, I read the book three times last night and he kept making the sign for "more". Maybe your kid will not find it as funny but Elijah highly recommends it.

He's a Maniac!

Everyday we get a "daily sheet" from Elijah's daycare. It's got the important info like if he ate his snacks and lunch and his diaper log. It also has a slew of activities and they check off the things he played with that day. They also write a little note about how his day was. Usually about once a week they write something like "Elijah had fun dancing with his friends" or "Elijah loves music". They have told me on multiple occasions that sometimes he just stands in front of the CD player and points to it, sometimes signing "please".

Because of that, we have crossed over to the dark side. I never understood why people play their children horrible music. Why would you have a CD of kids singing (badly)? Or ridiculous characters singing annoying songs? Micah was home by himself one night trying to make dinner and Elijah kept trying to "help". He discovered that Netflix has "The Wiggles" and he had fun dancing to the most ridiculous show I have seen in quite some time. So now we use that as a distraction pretty often, even though it is so bad.

Last night we went out for Mexican food with some friends. It had been a long day for Elijah so he was getting kind of restless. Luckily there was a mariachi band at the restaurant and that kept him totally entertained and dancing in his seat. I wish I had my camera! I've been trying to catch him dancing, but he is very selective about when he will dance and we haven't figured out which music makes him dance the most. Here is one of his moves:

Ankfulness of Thankfulness

My friend Scott is trying to get "ankfulness of thankfulness" to sweep the nation. I don't know what an ankful is but whatever. This right here is what I'm thankful for (you need the sound on).

The Binki Bandit

Elijah has never had the slightest interest in pacifiers (binkis, nuknuks, etc.). Some babies take them, some babies don't. We have a couple and when he finds them, he mostly chews on the handle for a little while before moving on to play with something more interesting. When I drop him off at "school", I usually put him down to play with something, put away his food, diapers, etc. and then go back to say good bye to him. A couple of weeks ago, when I went to say good bye, he had a binki in his mouth. I pulled it out because clearly it wasn't his since I don't think he even has a binki at "school". I put it on the counter for sterlization, said good bye and was on my way. Earlier this week, I went to pick him up and when I got there he was in the process of taking a binki out of one of his classmates' mouths and putting it in his mouth.

The teacher is like, "yeah, he does this all the time. He finds them on the floor or other kids' mouths and tests them out."

I was like, "Does he suck on them?"

"Yeah, for a little bit, then he takes them out of his mouth, looks at them and moves on to something else"

I can just imagine the little stinker, crawling up to sleeping babies, stealing their pacifiers and testing them out. I guess he is curious as to why all the other babies have them in their mouths and trying to figure out what is the big deal.