Little Climber

While Henry has started his school year, Elliot is also getting started with some classes. He takes Music Together and My Gym each week. Music he has taken for a while, and is obsessed with it (he knows how to use the little boombox in his playroom and insists on listening to his Music Together CD on repeat All.Day.Long). My Gym he just started last week and he is having a blast!

Taking iphone photos in these classes is an exercise in futility, but I try. Here he is hanging on the trapeze:

Waving to his friend Ben as he passes by in the "boat":

And general frivolity:

Elliot loves doing the gymnastics portions, where the instructors have him do forward rolls, go on the balance beam, etc. He is getting a lot better with climbing up stairs, but still can't really go down on his own. The trampoline scares him, but the ball pit is his idea of heaven.

He is starting to get a few more words, but isn't a big talker except for his 4 favorite words: "Bus", "Car", "More", and "No". Those we hear AAAALLLLLL day. When I get him from his crib in the morning there is no "Hello" from him. He immediately starts yelling "Car! Car! CAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!" until we can get to the playroom and see his beloved cars. Every car that drives by is pointed and yelled at. A bus going by practically causes him to go insane with excitement. His yellow school bus toy is carried everywhere.

Other words we have are "Night night" for bed or naptime, "Boom" said whenever he or anyone else gets hurt (or if something falls), "train", "Daddy" (so cute and loving how he says it. In the meantime he only says my name when he can't find me in the house, and then yells "MAAAAA!!!" in a very braying, rude teenager kind of way), "boat", "Garbage truck" (Not said very clearly, trust me), "quack" for duck, "moo" for cow, and "woof woof" for dog. He makes a siren noise whenever he spots a fire truck or police car, and "down". He also finally started nodding, so we are not only in the land of "no" anymore.

And to finish, some pictures of him on the playground - he finally got over his fear of playground bridges!