15 Month Update

Here's Elijah at his first basketball game, Purdue vs. Northwestern. His eyes were glued to the court for the entire first half. You could just feel him soaking in all the sights and sounds.

Spaghetti is NUMBER ONE!

It's so much fun to watch him eat his spaghetti. The downside is that it takes me longer to clean up the aftermath than it does for Rob to give Elijah a bath. Ugh.

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Here's that picture I promised a while ago of Elijah pushing his high chair around. He's taken his first hands-free steps already! But, he still prefers to cruise furniture. He'll march around if we hold his hand or if he's pushing furniture or a push-toy.

Here he is visiting Uncle Nisar at his new home in Rochester, MN. Yep, sadly, another loved one has moved away.

What a stroke of luck that the hotel room we stayed in overlooked a busy street. We couldn't pry him away from the window sill. He tried in vain to get the cars' and trucks' attention. Of course, he can now say "car" and "truck." No surprise there. But I was astonished one night to hear him say, "night-night," and point up the stairs towards his bedroom. He loves his sleep! Last night, he flipped the pages of his bedtime storybook like a speed-reader, slammed the book shut, handed it to us, gurgled out something that we knew meant, "the end," and then said "night-night." I think he thinks the bedtime story is for us!

...giving new meaning to, "bad hair day."

Have a great weekend everybody! ~Nasreen

Wheels

I tell ya, Elijah sure has a deep respect for one of mankind's greatest inventions: the wheel. He'll play all day long with anything that has wheels. It's a fascination of his that borders on obsession.

Sorry it took a while to update the blog. We plan to put a few more pictures up shortly with more details on his latest shenanigans, so please stay tuned... ~Nasreen