Shadow

In the past couple of weeks Eli has really started to imitate a lot of the things that Chris and I do. One of his favorites is to "talk" on the phone, usually to his grandma (though I am not sure which one). He found the house phone today and was playing with it, so I unplugged the cord from the wall so that he did not accidently call China or 911. When he was finished he left the phone on the floor. A few minutes later my cell phone rang, so he ran over, picked up the house phone, put it to his ear and said, "Hello, grandma?"

At lunch today I caught him dipping carrot sticks into imaginary dip and then eating it, just like I was doing with my lunch.

By far the cutest, though, happened last night at dinner. Eli put his hand to his mouth, made a fake coughing sound, and then said "meep me." We think one of us coughed or cleared our throat with our hand over our mouth and then said "excuse me." He was still doing this even at breakfast this morning.