boys play differently than girls

Eliot: I played dress-up with Joe* today.
Mommy: That’s great! What did you dress up as?
Eliot: Nothing.
Mommy: Nothing? Well what did you play in the dress up area then?
Eliot: “Babies on a cookrack”.
Mommy: What's a cookrack?
Eliot: You know, like you put your hats on it?
Mommy: Oh, okay, a COATRACK. Uh-huh. And how is this game played?
Eliot (counting each step on his fingers): First you put a baby on a cookrack. Then you watch it fall off.
Mommy: Then do you pick it up and rock it and kiss it’s boo-boos?
Eliot: No, then you laugh.

*Names changed to protect the innocent. If “Joe’s” little brother is found dangling from a coat rack, I plead innocent!

circa 1976

This is a picture that my Aunt Vicki sent me of my three-year-old class. See if you can spot me. I'm one of the four Americans. The one that looks just like Eliot. Now I see what my mom means when she says that he looks like me.

underwater

This week Eliot’s class is discussing Things That Live Underwater. Eliot informed me last night that he told his class that he saw seaweed in the ocean. I asked his teacher about it and she confirmed. Apparently, during Circle Time, Eliot just came right out with it. Also, his teacher said, he never comes up with things like FISH when they ask what lives underwater. So far (in addition to seaweed) he’s come up with squids, stingrays and sea turtles. I guess he learned that when we were on vacation making "sand sculptures".

snack

I usually keep a baggie of peanuts at my desk for snacking. I renewed my supply yesterday morning. When I got to work, I saw something odd in my baggie – lots of color. Upon closer inspection I realized that my peanuts were spotted with fruit loops. I asked Eliot about it that afternoon. Yes, he had added a handful of fruit loops to my peanut baggie when my back was turned that morning. “I was sharing my snack with you, Mommy!”

the squid's point of view

We were at Grandmother’s house yesterday. We were discussing different things to eat (possibly a new life to the old yummy snack game?) Grandmother brought up squid and we all agreed that would be an unusual thing to eat. Then Eliot said, “Well. You could put the squid in the water…. Then you could get in the water… then the squid would say, ‘well, that’s something new!’”

PotD Week Seventh Installment

Eliot's bathtub mural. This is just the beginning. You should see the finished product!

PotD Week Sixth Installment

We went to the park the other day. It was a beautiful day for the park.

PotD Week Fifth Installment

His little profile is pretty cute, but have you ever seen such a giant cranium!?