Eli's Cough
Eli is getting so much personality. It is coming out more and more everyday!!! He is such a silly head.
Eli has discovered his voice and all the different pitches and volumes that it makes. He loves to talk. As he talks he experiments with everything his voice is capable of. He makes sounds with his lips together and tongue sticking out. Sometimes he is surprised by the noises he makes so he makes a really funny face to go with the sounds.
Other times Eli makes his lips in the shape of an "O" and goes "OOOoooOoOOo, OOOoooOOOoOo, OOOOOooooOoOOoOo." He likes to do this with a very low pitch and he pushes his eyebrows together and acts so serious with the sounds. He must be trying so hard. This sound is so funny because it is so manly. I love all his noises!!
Anyone who goes to Carl and Barb's Church certainly will have heard the next sound I am going to describe. Eli loves to make this very very high pitched squeal. He uses his arms and legs and all the muscles in his face to express this sound. It is definitely a happy sound and it is definitely a loud sound. He does this all the time, when I am changing his diaper, when he is playing in his bouncer, when he is listening to music, when we are eating at a restaurant, when we are shopping in the store and during church. This is his main way of talking and singing. It is so cute and so full of expression.
Eli also has another sound all figured out. He has figured out how to make a very fake cough. He does this all the time. It is so pathetic and so fake and so very funny.
Eli likes to do his cough for attention. If we are talking with him and then we go to do something else he will start to do his fake cough. He must know that when he coughs for real and we get concerned that all coughs will give him that attention. This cough does work as he plans. He does get our attention. But instead of concern he gets laughs because it is such a hilariously sad attempt by him. It is so obviously fake. I love his little cough though. I love everything about my little man.
Everyday Eli is becoming more of a little man. He is learning how to do so many things. He loved ripping open his Christmas presents. His favorite part was crinkling the tissue paper. He got a lot of really fun toys to play with too. His favorite toy, and I must admit it is my favorite toy that he got as well, is the rockin' jitter buggy. It is a little car that he can bounce in and rock in. It has all these cute car related accessories that really work too. It is awesome. I am sure he is going to have so much fun with it.
It was a very hard Christmas. But we made it through. I cried a lot. I didn't laugh much. But it was special to celebrate Eli's first Christmas. He had a lot of fun. It just broke my heart that AJ couldn't have seen Eli this Christmas, or any Christmas.
posted by Kellie # 11:40 AM
