antics

Elijah has now reached the "I'm going to climb on everything heedless of my own mortality" stage.  The side of the tub, the side of the sandbox, the dining room chairs, the storage trunks, the kitchen steps.  Now the sofa is his newest trick.  I'm fine with him climbing on and off the sofa.  Climb up, turn around, squirm down.  Climb up, turn around, squirm down.  It's the gleeful scaling onto the back of the couch and using the arm of the couch to try to wrestle his way onto the windowsills that has me concerned. Um, I can't just hide the couch to keep him from climbing on it.  So Mr. Spoon emerges to teach Elijah that Mama does not approve or condone of that new trick.

Yes, we have reached the stage where "No" is an all-too-common word, but thankfully legitimate amusements also interest this little monkey.  He has learned from his daddy how to dribble one of his small plastic balls around the house!  I foresee a football fanatic in our family.  (Wait.  We already have one...)

His other new antics this week: giving "high-fives," which he thinks is the most hilarious thing in the world (you should hear him cracking himself up! such a belly laugh) and wearing Mama's sandals around the house.  I have the feeling I'm going to be searching for my shoes often in the future.


His vocabulary so far includes "touch" and "yes."  And I am positive that he was trying his best to say "bath" the other night.  (He gets so excited about bathtime!)

As for my antics, this is what I'm up to: entering another giveaway over at Life in a Shoe.  'Cause I'm a good, faithful reader, that's why.  And 'cause I love long, modest, beautiful skirts!  And these giveaways have been too good to resist!