Laundry

When Eli woke up from his nap, I asked him if he wanted to help me fold the laundry. He said, "yes" very confidently. And he actually did! I had three baskets full (yes, I realize that they have been sitting there since Sunday getting wrinkled, but Eli is 18-months-old, remember?). I dumped one on the bed and told Eli to put all of his clothes in the empty basket. He did! He searched out and found all of his own clothes and put them in the basket. OK, a few times he stopped to put my underwear on his head or his leg through the arm of Michael's shirt, but for the most part he really took to the task at hand. Ahh how I love the 15 minutes of productive play!

Sitting up, chewing on socks and perhaps some new teeth

I had to change Eli's crib sheet the other day because he wet the bed. I thought his crib looked so cute I had to take a photo.

He is doing a great job sitting up these days. We've been stacking up soft blocks and knocking them over. For the first time today it seemed like he was trying to knock them over, instead of reaching for one and then accidentally toppling the stack. He was having a good time and I couldn't even get a tall stack going -- he was one step ahead of me.

This afternoon when I needed to put some laundry away in our bedroom, I threw Eli a pair of his socks to amuse him for a second. He loved them! He was chewing on one end and pulling on the other end. Of course, his sock was soaked with drool in about 10 minutes but Eli didn't mind. He was having so much fun I was even able to read him two stories without him trying to put the books in his mouth :)

He's been pretty cranky the last two days and I think he is close to getting some new teeth. At least I hope that's what is going on or else that's just his personality coming out :)