My Little Buggies

This post is to document what Elliott (Buggies) has been doing right now, as a five year old big boy. He's hilarious, smart, so so sweet and a little mischievous...a really great kid. 

He's into posing for pictures now, so he wants you to take 10, and each time he'll switch his pose. And he likes to show you his muscle usage by turning the couch on it's side and jumping on the back- nice.
He loves to draw. He draws or colors or writes words many times a day. This picture is of him drawing all different types of bugs, and animals and pumpkins- which are orange. He loves to put his favorites in frames, so we had to go to IKEA to buy cheap frames (that fit 8 1/2X11 paper perfectly), which are set on every table top surface in his room. He came with us to our Sunday School class today because he wasn't feeling primary, so he sat and wrote letters all in a row and then would say, "What word did I write Mommy? What does it say?" What does NNOEEDOTT spell anyway? And he has discovered the exclamation point, (I might have taught him this a little too soon, but I still remember learning about it (and the question mark) and wrote it in my very first journal after everything- it was so exciting!) Anyway, he now loves to put a huge exclamation point after a lot of words he writes too.
He is sooo silly and always wants to make us laugh. When he's excited, he makes little monkey sounds and jumps around like one. Ollie is starting to copy him in this, just like everything else. Two little monkeys. 

His favorite snack is a cheese-tomato sandwich. You get a slice of cheese, put a tomato or cucumber inside and fold the cheese over. He usually eats these while I am making lunch. I love these too. I'm not sure if I made them up or what- but two of my favorite foods are cheese and tomatoes...
I've said this before- Elliott is a little climber. I wouldn't say he's one of those boys with no fear at all, because he is very cautious with some things (one is on the swings, unless he's doing the pumping.) But with other things, including climbing and bike riding- he is pretty daring. 
He has always loved taking pictures with my camera. Sometimes they are self portraits like the one above. I was looking at the camera a few days later and laughed at this. My life flashed before my eyes and I saw him as a teenager with a little attitude. He seems so big in it. I just read a book called "Tending Roses" which really makes you look at how fast life passes you by.  I realized that this is the last year we will be able to hang out everyday, since he only goes to preschool twice a week and next year he'll go everyday to kindergarten. It makes me sad to think about. He's always been my little sidekick. 
Most family nights we have strawberry shakes with our lesson. We looked over and noticed Elliott sipping away at his like this. Whatever works. 

Some of his latest accomplishments are clipping his own nails, changing the toilet paper roll, climbing up to get Suki's wet cat food and putting it in a bowl, setting the table, pouring  his own milk, drawing and playing on the computer and becoming a master at scissors and glue. He is also becoming a very caring friend to the neighbor kids and a good big brother (most of the time.) We hear him trying to soothe Ollie if he's sad and will usually share his toys.

Here are some funny things Elliott has said recently:

-"Hot is sweat and cold is shiver."

-"Mommy- you're too big to play with them. You just want to scrapbook things."

-As he's flexing, "Look how strong I am Mommy! You can even see my bones!"

-"You've got to hurry before it's the next day!"

-"Eat healthy foods, not bad ones. Like we can't lick the road."

-"Why do you think everything Daddy buys is ugly?"

-Saying a prayer: "Thank you for the sun and the earth and for gravity, so it can keep us on the earth..."

-Found a lone key in the house and said, "Are these like the keys the big boys get at church when they can pass the sacrament?"

We love you Elliott! We are so proud of the boy you are and the big boy you are becoming!!