paintings and songs

So Eli went to the Museum of Art today. I can't say he enjoyed immensly but I can say he endured it quite well. I thought this was of interest today when I asked him to tell me what he saw in this painting. He said, smoke and clouds and fire. That is pretty good, better than what I would have come up with. There were many other paintings that he had some very good insight on too. I think it so interesting to see through his eyes, some of the paintings when I saw them were so serious and dark but when his little voice spoke of what his mind saw they were captivating and intriguing.




The many faces of Eli. While we are sitting in Hard Rock Cafe eating our lunch a song comes on the tv called Celebration by Kool and the Gang and Eli turns towards us and says "Yeah, it is like Celebration Praise the Lord!"..............yes! I love to hear random out of no wear thoughts of God. I just loved it, Rick and I looked at eachother with much joy and we praised Eli and God right then!!!

Spidey Eli and Kai

So I know I said Eli had made a decision on what He wanted to be Dash well a lot has happened since then. He has watched Spiderman 1 and 2, Daredevil, X-Men and the Justice League. So he has gone from all of those about 3 times in one day. Today I took him to Party City and when he saw all the costumes he with out a doubt picked Spiderman. So we bought it and bought Kai one also. They are both going to be Spidermen. He also has decided to do his birthday party in Spiderman theme. He is sooooo excited. Today he wore his costume all over the house, actually he is sleeping in his bed write now in it. And we are not allowed to refer to him as Eli when he has the costume on, he is Spiderman. It is very cute and fun to watch him.

The Runaway Hermit

This is Rocky our hermit crab. He lives in the our bathroom suite. Every morning one of Eli's chores is to bath him and feed him. Well, I decided he might enjoy a day by the pool so I got a whipped cream bowl and put a little water in it and his log and we put him in there on the counter. He looked as though he was enjoying himself so we left him and went about our day. About 2 hours later I thought let me go check on Rocky. Empty. The pool area was empty. I thought what, how could he be gone? Then it occured to me that he had climbed on the log and then fell out. So I got nervous cause the bowl was right on the edge of the counter. I started looking around but didn't see him anywhere. I called Eli in the bathroom and he couldn't believe he had gotten out. We both went on a search for him mumbling our ideas to eachother of where he could be. Then I realized that he must still be on the counter cause if he fell he would have cracked his shell, so I looked up there some more and I look in our basket of shells I see this very odd colored shell sitting in another shell and yep there he is. He had climbed in this basket of shells. Eli said awww he wanted to go home with the other shells.












So now we put him in his pool and put it in a larger bowl with shells around it. He really seems to enjoy that as much as a hermit crab can I guess.