Eli finally wears his Woody hat, that he got for his 3rd birthday. He runs around the house saying Hee Haw! Ride em cowboy! His other favorite thing to do lately is finding snails, potato bugs, spiders and lady bugs. No matter where we are it's an easy way to keep a kid occupied, and he relishes in it every time, (bug pictures to come). This kid has some serious speed too, you can tell he plays chase a lot. I think he will be in track when he is older cause he loves to run. About two weeks ago we went for a summer night walk and he ran pretty much all of Greenlake. He is really comfortable on big toys and zips around and hangs like a monkey all the time now, shouting, "look at me mama!" I love every time he talks as talking has been slow for us. He is however improving more and more everyday. I feel like we are finally at that place where he just starts repeating everything we say. One of the words he has learned from his Dad is shite a kid version of shit. Really? I tell Brian and Eli not to say the word Shite. Of course they both want to say it even more and they both think it's funny. It really sounds like the German work for shit and I'm sure everyone hears through the word shite and thinks we are horrible parents. I'll take the shite over the shit. I can't wait to spend this summer with him and Sam, so I can teach him more, hopefully less swear words. I sometimes feel like he is really a two year old in a 3yr old body since he only started hearing well, when he got tubes at 2. Eli also loves his Sam time, it is sometimes the carrot that motivates him. You'd think it was candy. On the Sam front he is awake a little more now that he is getting bigger and lately has discovered his toes.
