Superhero

The other night I tied a Superman towel around Elijah's neck to act as a cape so he could play "superhero". After he ran into the other room I could hear him yelling as he was running in circles.
"I'm a superhero, I'm getting bad guys, My cape is falling off, My cape is falling off, My cape is falling off!"

Open Hands

Ezra has really started to open up his hands lately. In the beginning he always kept his hand balled up in a fist with his thumbs inside of his fingers. Now, in the past few days, it seems like he is starting to notice his hands, starting to look at them, and starting to open them up quite a bit. I gave him a rattle last night and he grabbed on to it and shook it around for a minute or so.

It wasn't me!

Elijah was having fun running around in circles in the living room this evening. He told us he was running from skeletons. He ran circle after circle yelling at the skeletons to stop chasing him. After a while he stepped on something and we all heard it go 'crack'. He picked a blanket up off of the floor and underneath it was a Tupperware bowl that was used to keep some of his lacing toys in. He brought it to me in the kitchen and it was cracked.
"The skeleton stepped on it!" he told me as serious as could be.

That's Fun!

I was putting Eli to bed tonight and after we read the 5 books he had picked out I told him I could not give him a kiss because Mommy was sick and I didn't want to get him sick too.
"But you can kiss my forehead" he tells me.
"Okay, I can do that." I tell him as I give him a kiss on the forehead.
"When we are sick it is fun to kiss on the forehead and when we are all better it is fun to kiss on the lips." he tells me.

I want my Mommy

Ezra was crying and I told him to wait a minute and I would be there in a second.
"Whaaa.....I want my Mommy, I want my Mommy!" Elijah says.
"Is that what Baby Ezra is saying?" I ask him.
"Yeah, he just wants his Mommy" he tells me.

Doggy Nap

When Elijah woke up from nap the other day he came running up to me so happy.
"Did you have a good nap?" I asked him.
"Marley slept with me!" he told me in the most excited voice. "He was right here and I waked up and he was in there sleeping with me, in my bedroom!"
He was SO EXCITED! This is the first time Marley has ever slept in his room (as far as I know anyways). And every since then Elijah has asked Marley each night to sleep with him again. So far it has not happened, but it seems Eli has not given up hope!

Masking Mommy

First Daddy was sick and now it's my turn. AGAIN. We just got over being sick last week and it seems we have something again. So far neither Elijah nor Ezra have caught it. We are trying our very best not to spread the germs to them and this means lots of hand sanitizing, lots of OJ and, yes, masks.
I have been wearing a mask while holding Ezra to feed him and he thinks it is just the funniest thing! I will pick him up and he just starts smiling so big he can't even concentrate on eating! He even seems to laugh about it. It is so cute! Hopefully the sickness wears off fast but in the meantime, at least I have the precious smiles to keep me on the up and up!