Vocabulary Explosion

Eli is a talking, laughing, walking, silly boy these days. And we LOVE it!
Yesterday he came home from school giggling, running around the house and making silly noises. I love his laugh and smile and the silliness. No matter what, you can't help smile when you're around that!

We've also had a big explosion in his vocabulary over the past two weeks. His first word a while back was "dog". Now we've added: duck, truck, book, bye bye (with a wave), uh-oh, box, block, ma ma and da da (knowing us, not just babbling) and last weekend, he called Grandpa C "pa pa". He is learning and growing fast!!

Got a letter from his school today that he is transitioning to the Toddler Room (he's kinda bored in his current class). He's been spending some time in there and getting adjusted. He no longer has a crib at school - sleeps on a cot. Takes one nap a day. Is working on drinking from an open cup. No longer takes his pacifier at school. I looked at the new classroom today and the kids have so much more free space and things to do. There are some organized activities - circle time, stories, etc. They also get to spend more time outside. Eli is going to love it! We love his current teacher Ms. Katie and will REALLY miss her. Hopefully his new teachers will be half as great. Right now Eli is visiting the classrom and will start transition the week of 9/22 and will be there full time starting the week of 9/29. I'm hearing from the Moms of some of Eli's former classmates that the kids are much more tired after a day in the Toddler room. Hard to believe he's a toddler already!!