Elijah 15 Month Pictures and Cooking Pictures

This is a random post - pictures of Elijah and pictures of food.

Here are pictures of Elijah from last month at 15 months.  Our little boy is growing up so fast, he's really changed a lot this month - such a "busy" boy.  I need to share pictures from Christmas.

 Cafe Latte cake is the best!

 

Learning to play guitar from dad (too bad dad doesn't know how to play).  Notice that Elijah plays with a pick.

Wanting to get picked up!

I had 13 wonderful days off of work.  It was glorious.  It seems like a lot of time off but days were busy the entire break.  One thing I really wanted to do was to cook.  So over the two week break, I cooked three things that I typically wouldn't cook on a weeknight or weekend - egg rolls, a fruit tart and pan-fried pot stickers.

(Elijah, 15 months)

Egg Rolls:

- Overall, the egg rolls were good but would make modifications to them next time because there was too much moisture inside of them.  They were good fresh but not tasty at all as leftovers because of the moisture. 

Fruit Tart:

 

Pot Stickers:
- These were delicious and unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures.  We will definitely be making these again soon!

Bahda

Elijah came up with a word that has multiple meanings: bahda!  "Bahda" is pronounced "bah" like a sheep and "da" like da-da.  He uses it when he sees anything interesting, when he's upset or when he wants something.  We are convinced that Elijah thinks it's a real word.  He's said it at least 20 times today.

I kid you not, he said it in his sleep as I typed this entry.

(Elijah, 16 months)

Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone is having a great Christmas.  We are getting "behind" in posting pictures of Elijah so here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.  More posts about Christmas coming soon (hopefully).

(Elijah, 15 months)

Baa!

 

The past few weeks have been tough.  We think Elijah is getting lots of teeth so he's very moody.  We are thankful that he was in a good mood tonight, below are a couple of fun moments.

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Sometimes Elijah is good at listening to us and other times (most of the time), he's not.  An example of the conversation tonight:

Dave: Elijah, what noise does a sheep make?

Elijah: Baa!

Dave: What noise does a cow make?

Elijah: Baa!

Dave: No, it goes "moo".  What noise does a duck make?

Elijah: Baa!

Dave: No, it goes "quack, quack".  What noise does a kitten make?

Elijah: Baa!

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While paging through Elijah's new animal book, I decided to teach Elijah which animals we (humans) eat.  So when we saw a chicken, I would say, "We eat those."  He seemed interested in his lesson but Dave thought it was a ridiculous conversation.  My theory: teach him truths at a young age.  #tigermom

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Random pictures from 1 1/2 weeks ago:

(Elijah, 15 months)

Coloring With Markers

Elijah can create such beautiful artwork.  One problem - he likes to hold the markers upside down so the ink gets all over his hands. :)  These pictures are from over a week ago.  We tried coloring with markers again this weekend and this time, he just wanted to play with the caps.

 Wrong way, buddy.  We tried multiple times to turn the markers over but he prefers them in this orientation.

 

 

 

 

 Look at my hands!

(Elijah, 15 months)

Elijah and Animals

Elijah loves animals.  We knew Elijah would like animals before he was born - when we "decorated" his room before his arrival (I use "decorated" loosely because we just put up pictures, decals and his name), we decided to go with an an animal theme.

I bought Elijah a new animal book for Christmas but gave it to him a few weeks ago.  (I'm really bad with giving Christmas or birthday presents early.)  Elijah was scared of the big book at first but after a few times through, he enjoys reading it now.  Phew!

 Scared of all the new animals at first.

 Much better after Mom reads through it with Elijah.

 Other reading pictures from the last couple of weeks:

(Elijah, 15 months)