Other February pictures

Elijah loves to "dress up" in my chunky boots, a hat, and carry my old purse around.  What a silly boy!

We were listening to camptown races on a kids cd and Elijah wanted to ride a horse so I showed him how to mime like he was riding one.  Instead he went and set up his duplo horse and tried to ride it.

Did I mention he loves my boots?

I left him at the table to color like this.

and I found him there 2 minutes later like this.

This is my Christmas present to my oldest brother.  We had a difficult holiday with the car troubles so Dave finally finished it 2 weeks ago and he should be getting it today.  I hope he likes it.

The Incident

So a few weeks ago we went out to dinner with Dave's dad.  When we got home Elijah was running around like a maniac (as usual) and fell and hit his forehead on the windowsill.  He was such a good boy when it happened.  He cried for a few minutes and within 30 minutes he was back to his old self despite the horrible looking head.  The progression of the injury went like this.  

This is the day after, a Sunday.  You can see the nice blue line which appeared instantly after he hit.

This is the following Wednesday, the day after Valentine's Day.  The bleeding into the eye sockets had started the day before.

These two are the same day but I can't decide which shows the bruising better.  I think I took these the day after the toothbrush picture.

The above picture shows the eyes at what I think was their worst.  It may have gotten a little worse but not by much.  It's now two and a half weeks later and he is pretty much back to normal.  He still looks a little black eyed and there's a bit of bruising on his forehead that is visible but it's nice to be able to look at my son and not wince at the sight of him.