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Club Med Ixtapa 2009: Sick, Well, Sick
We’ve just returned from what seems like our 6th week out of town in the last month. For the last week we’ve been at Club Med Ixtapa in Mexico. Overall a very good trip. We were very worried the night before we left as Eli developed a fever, but thankfully it was gone the next…
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New Christmas tradition: violent vomiting
It appears we have a new Woodhouse Christmas tradition on our hands: the one-day flu! We were worried when, less than 12 hours before we were supposed to board the plane for North Dakota, Eli threw up all over my lap. See, I don’t know if you remember our sad story from last year, but…
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Cutest sentence ever.
This morning, Eli was standing on top of his little stepstool, eating Cheerios at the counter. Let me preface this by saying he’s obsessed with stairs, and whenever he sees any, he wants to go up them. And he gets pretty fired up about Cheerios, too. So, there he is in his little jammies, all…
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Weekend in Monterey
Justin, Eli, and I played tourist this weekend in Monterey! I had a work gig on Monday, so we all hung out on the king-sized bed for a couple of nights. Although I think Eli had plans to claim it for himself … We did all the cool stuff, including being kept awake all night…
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Halloween 2008: Elephant attack!
Ok, first, let me just say, Eli totally gets this Halloween thing. It’s all about the spoils. Unlike last year, when he was too sick to even get in his costume, let alone trick-or-treat, this year Eli got dressed up in his little elephant outfit like a champ. (He has a stuffed elephant that he…
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Funny things Eli says
Eli has amazing powers of pronunciation. He can be incredibly precise in his little sentences, like this morning’s “I want my blanket” and his most complicated sentence yet: “I want to wash that.” (Seriously. He’s pretty amazing in the talking department.) He tries words over and over until he says them just right. But I…
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Eli likes ice cream
And it’s a good thing, because it’s a good reward for yet another disastrous haircut experience!
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Our life: a toddler-hood sitcom
Eli has entered toddler-hood. This means, in essence, that he’s almost completely uncontrollable, has absolutely zero sense of self-preservation, is lethally curious and almost just as lethally clumsy, and has a temper that’s as quick and unpredictable as a rattlesnake. It also means that I frequently find myself in situation where I think I must…
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Words
Ok, I’m trying to get a more complete list of the words Eli currently says. Forgive the repeats! This is just the easiest way to count. 🙂 No Yes (this is extremely rare) daddy up down cat quacka (cracker) apple (almost constant usage) hot (he will also use “num num num” to ask for food)…
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Not tired
Eli has a pretty good bedtime routine going. Round about 7:20 p.m., we make him a bottle, which he happily takes, and then we brush his teeth, then sit and read a book or two (or sometimes the same book four times), snuggle a little, and he’s happily in bed by 7:35 or thereabouts. Not…