Random Lijah goings-ons....

1. Lijah has developed a fondness for snakes. We have a Jake the Slithering Snake remote control snake that he loves (but is a bit scared of) and some little plastic snakes - and plays with them all of the time. He also loved to point at snakes in books and hiss. He even hisses when I roll out Play-Doh and he pretends that it is slithering like a snake.
2. We got a ramp and some Matchbox cars a few weeks ago after watching the movie Cars and this is one of Lijah's new favorite toys. Before this, he was fascinated with the tires on cars, but this has helped him to appreciate the 'full car'. He gets excited and waves at cars when they drive by in the street and says 'vroom-vroom'.
3. Since everything is melting he has been jumping in every puddle he could find - so we went out to the thrift store and bought him some rain boots. He loves to be outside (with or without puddles) and lately throws a little tantrum everytime it is time to go back inside.
4. Jason's mom bought him a little train before he was born with his name spelled out - each piece is a letter of him name. Since he has stopped trying to eat all of his toys I thought it would be time to take it down off of the shelf and actually let him play with it. He immediately started copying me when I said 'Choo-Choo' and now choo-choos at every train he sees.
5. Lately he has been putting his squirrel stuffed animal on the foot pedal on the elliptical and pushes the arms to give the little squirrel a ride.
6. Lijah has also refined his picky eating habits. Amazingly he is not hungry unless there is some form of sugar being offered. One night I knew he was hungry and I offered him everything under the sun in the kitchen and he refunsed everything. Then he pointed up to the shelf....right where the sugar cones were. It was late, and it was time for bed, so I said sure....we'll have a sugar cone for dinner. I grabbed the box, grabbed Lijah, headed up to his room, got some books out, put him on my lap, and took out a cone. He looked disappointed.......and he would not eat the cone. I was baffled. But then he grabbed the box, and pointed his finger at the mint chocolate chip ice cream on top of the cone on the box. Of course....he wanted ice cream. Finally after explaining away that we didn't have any ice cream he reluctantly ate the cone and went to bed.....

Home Alone

Lijah and I got some quality bonding time this weekend since Jason went out of town to Duluth to see some family (Lijah and I had NO interest in going somewhere even colder than Minneapolis this time of year!). Now Lijah is pretty obsessed with me, likes to cuddle up alot and rub noses with me, and is doing a great job of actually listening to me (usually daddy is the one who he listens to). I think he might actually like me! :) I didn't do any homework, no errands, no nothing - just a whole weekend of my undivided attention. I think this bonding time was much needed for both of us.....

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I've been trying to get a picture like this, but couldn't capture it - but Jason had some luck one day when I was at work:

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Our house is so dry Lijah's hair looks like this alot lately.....

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Lijah can also proudly show you that he knows many of his body parts:

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And a few random shots.....for your viewing pleasure.....

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