Then and Now

7 Month Eli...March 9, 2007

7 Month Abby...June 24, 2009

Recorded for Posterity

The other night I was giving Eli a bath and randomly asked him what his eyes do. He gave me a look that said, "It seems that I should know the answer to this, but I'm pretty sure that you have never told me what my eyes do..." So we went through all of the senses. Our eyes see. Our ears hear. Our tongues taste. Our noses smell. Our fingers touch. I could see Eli contemplating this new information and mulling it around in his constantly moving brain. After a few minutes he looked at me and said, "What's my penis about?"

When he turns sixteen, let's not tell him about this post.

So Close

There is only one color that Eli can consistently identify correctly, purple. I ask him all the time what color items are and, unless it is purple, he is inaccurate. Today, however, for a bright shining moment, I was getting excited. Here is how our conversation went:

Me: What color are your shoes?
Eli: Red (CORRECT)
Me: What color is our grass?
Eli: Green (CORRECT thanks to lots of rain this spring)
Me: What color is the sky today?
Eli: Blue (CORRECT)
Me: What color is my shirt?
Eli: Etch

And then after that, everything was ETCH. I guess, for a kid that has the genetics of color identification stacked against him, we can call today progress.

Some People

This morning Eli had a favorite phrase. He began his sentences with "Some people like to..." and completed them in the following ways:

• play catch.
• change my diaper.
• go to the park.
• jump on trampolines.
• watch digger videos.

He did this for about fifteen minutes and then I never heard it again all day. The mind of a two year old.