Hey Mom, Look what I can do!

One thing I was going to write about in the last post (before it got so stream of consciousness) was some of the things Elijah is doing these days just so I have a record of them.

• Elijah can tell you what a cow, sheep, horse, dog, kitty (not cat), lion, bear, and 3 singing pigs say.  He's actually been able to do most of those for quite a while now.
• can sit down on command so I can put his shoes on. 
• can find his binky in my pocket.
• is starting to use a fork.
• can show you his eyes, ears, head, nose, tongue, teeth, mouth, fingers, toes, knee, and his belly which always becomes bellybutton (he's also done most of this for a while).
• can smell his feet and if you ask them how they smell he waves his hand in front of his face to say they stink (thanks David).
• does all of the actions for patty cake and popcorn popping as well as most of the actions for 5 monkeys swinging in the tree and jumping on the bed.
• can put himself to sleep at night and sometimes for naptime too.  Yay!
• can put things back upon command, like daddy's socks from the drawer.  Sometimes he doesn't want to so he won't but it's nice that he does sometimes.
• can give closed mouth kisses which is so cute but a little sad because it means he's growing up.
• folds his arms for prayer (but he's been regressing at this I think because it is losing its novelty).
• says momma, dadda, night night (na na), love you (la la), shoe, sock, amen, cracker (ca ca), cookie (a variation on cracker), diaper (di doh), no, grandpa (pa pa) and attempts grandma but it's different depending on the day.  He some others which I can't think of right now.
• has said banana perfectly once and randomly said gnome perfectly when I was telling him what something was, neither have persisted.
• signs more, all done, drink and uses a sign I made up for binky which he has for a while, and recently added sorry.
• throws a ball and walks backwards.
• pushes cars along the ground.
• dumps out baskets of things like toys and clothes.
• climbs into his high chair booster thing as well as onto most chairs and sits on them.
• gives me his binky when I ask for it although he usually wants it right back if he's not distracted.
• grabs any writing utensil he can find and uses it to draw on the nearest paper.
• loves to look at books and turn the pages.
• climbs on the outside of his crib.
• is starting to be able to blow from his nose on command.
• dances to music in a few different ways.

He is just so precious!  I love this boy!