Emoting

We were able to spend most of the last week with Eli. He developed an ear infection last weekend and did not have school this week. Consequently, we were home with him and he was quite clingy. He is also learning to communicate his emotions: today at the swimming pool he told us that he was sad because we hadn't put seed in the bird feeder before leaving the house. Our days this week fell into a pretty routine pattern. We would wake up, exercise, play until lunch, take a nap, and then head to the pool for a late-afternoon swim. Eli is pretty courageous in the swimming pool, but he has now spent enough time underwater that he is beginning to respect it a bit more. After showing fearlessness in going off the diving board last week, he was too scared to go off it this week. Since the weather was beautiful all week, we also got to go to Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells. Eli was terrified of the water slides (which is funny, since he likes both water and slides), but he had a great time splashing in the wave pool and watching the older kids play on the more exciting rides.

Eli is also taking joy in little things around the house. He is quite smitten with the Roomba (aka, Robot Vacuum) and is eager to find it 'robot food'. He carries his iPod shuffle around with him at nearly all times. I periodically freshen up the music, but we have grown very familiar with some of his favorites. He is also very interested in playing 'Beatles: Rock Band' on the XBOX 360. He probably knows ~10 songs that he can mumble along with reasonably well. Right now, his favorites are 'Get Back' and 'Yellow Submarine'.