Eli's New Best Friend

So Eli has really taken a liking to Charlie this past week. It's neat to see how much Eli likes him, but at the same time I feel a little bad for Charlie. Eli just gets so excited and chases him and screams. Charlie is such a trooper though, he just runs from room to room and usually doesn't even jump up high to get away. His love for Charlie does scare me some though, especially when he puts his head on Charlie or his face near Charlies' face. I try to watch them very carefully. I can usually decipher Eli's scream of joy which means he is chasing Charlie around and I'll quit whatever it is I'm doing and go check out Mr. Trouble. He has started to throw stuff at him too, so I'm afraid that might become our next time-out trigger.

Another cute thing I saw Eli doing today. I was washing the dishes and Eli was looking out the back door. He caught his reflection in the glass door and started pointing at his shirt on the glass (he was wearing his Sesame Street jammies with a few characters on the shirt). After he would point it out on the glass, he would look down at himself and point to the character on his body. He did that for each character and I could tell he was so amazed. He's truly aware that it's him in the reflection now!

We also were awoken by a red chested blackbird this morning (I don't know if that's the technical name, but that's what it looks like). It has a very pretty chirp and was sitting right on the window ledge. We were able to sneak up on it and Eli got a good look before he flew off. It's been really fun to point out all the stuff of nature to him lately. Butterflies, birds, a ladybug the other day. I picked up the ladybug and put it on Eli. He wasn't too sure about that, shook it right off but thought it was cool while I was holding it. Also in our neighborhood, we have a lot of ditches where the water collects. The last few days that I have taken him on walks, I always notice frogs jumping around in there when I walk by. Today I decided to take him out of the stroller so he could look at them. They are pretty quick to jump as soon as they hear you, so I kept whispering to Eli to be quiet. That doesn't really work. But we did get a glimpse at a few, and even heard them making noise as they jumped away.