First haircut

Elijah has just had his first haircut - albeit a little trim - at just over 2 & 1/2 years old! He was born with monk-like hair which mostly fell out. He was then bald for quite some time. Eventually it started growing as a blond tuft on top, but has been the slowest hair ever! He now has gorgeous, fine blonde, slightly wavy longish hair, with a teeny bit trimmed as it was getting in his eyes ☺️

Christmas 2015

Christmas hasn't quite gone according to plan this year. Or rather the plan has had to change. 

Original Plan - Christmas Eve carol service at Harbour Church. Chips, Camembert and cranberry jelly for supper. Christmas Day stocking presents from Father Christmas opened in bed, followed by Morning Service then Nana & Gaga over for lunch followed by tree presents. 

Gastroenteritis has put pay to all that. 

We have had a quite mainly TV day with Mama mainly in bed ill, no visit from N&G, and a decent amount of grazing on Cheerios. Christmas has been rescheduled for Sunday. 

Still, it's just a day. Christmas Day is really only celebrated in four ways - the Christmas Story or message , presents, friends and family, & food. And of those what is or are the most important? The story or message, and family. Those have been present today so all is good. xx Dada xx

Cheers

We have started to go to Harbour Church recently. Elijah has settled in very quickly. He wanders off around the room during worship. He followed the person with he loaf during communion. He is very charismatic with his singing - he sits on Dada's shoulders and waves his arms in the air whilst singing along. 

Today however was a new high! During communion (which is very family centred and relaxed), Elijah had the little cup of juice and did 'cheers' with ours as he drank it!! 

Oh yeah!!

So it's December and there are lots of Christmas lights up now. Every time Elijah catches sight of some twinkly lights, he shouts 'oh yeah' and points at them. I wanted to remember this as next year I'm sure he will be just as excited but will probably be talking non stop. I love the innocence and purity of his enthusiasm. No other words needed, just oh yeah!

Nap time

I am sat in the dim light of your room, with you asleep on my lap. You barely fit anymore, you're getting so big. You had woken from your nap and were upset and tired still, so I got onto your bed to cuddle you. And here I am 45 minutes later. I have back ache and a dead arm but couldn't be happier. It won't be long before you don't want to cuddle up for a sleep. I know these moments are precious and are rushing by so quickly. I was supposed to be doing housework but I can't think of anywhere else I would rather be than holding my boy and being able to watch you sleep. 

A sentence!

So Elijah can now string 3 words together. He has comedic timing and delivers it with perfect intonation "oh my dada". If only he could eye-roll he would!!

More words

So to add to the list of words, Elijah now says 'over there'. He calls the postman 'bi bi / bee bee' - I have no idea why but he then demands I sing the Postman Pat theme song!! Car is 'brrrrmm b'. His scooter trike is 'deetdah'. And bowls (specifically the black melamine measuring cups) are called 'duh buh'. Who knows where he has got these from!!!

Most cute of all is when he is asked a question he says a perfect 'uhm...ahh...' when considering his response (which is always either yes / ya or no!)