"Best in the Whole World!"

My sweet, active, very vocal little boy - Elijah.

His Auntie B calls him, 'Elijah the Prophet.'

Always inquisitive,

he questioned, "Why do you call me Elijah the prophet?"

To which she explained the man from the Old Testament.

The one who flew into the sky with a chariot of fire and saw Jesus.

So now he knows. And he authoritatively tells people that

"Elijah flew in the sky and found Jesus."

But still he wonders, "How can he fly? with magic?"

Which leads me to...

Elijah is obsessed. 

With paper airplanes, superhero capes and with magic.

Luckily he has a father and uncle who also love to fly

and oblige his frequent requests to fold him a paper airplane...

at least 20 times a day.

I don't know where this came from,

but his magical word is "BOOLAH!"

He'll say it while covering some object:

"BOOLAH! DISAPPEAR IT!"  or "BOOLAH! MAKE IT APPEAR!"

Unfortunately he often desires to perform magic in church or some other quiet place.

I made the mistake of hiding the object once while he was performing. 

He thought it he disappeared it! 

Oh, I felt so horribly. 

His face was so purely in awe! 

I explained what I did and luckily, he still loves magic.

How I love my loving, noisy, active little boy who often declares us the best mommy, daddy, Elise in the whole world!

(He also often declares us not his best ___ in the whole world, but I'll take the previous any day. : )

The Old man & his Broccoli

Sometimes, I feel like I blink and my kids grow up another year. So fast!  Is Elise really going to kindergarten next year?  At the end of her pre-school year in May, she was awarded for academic excellence and for having a joyful heart. : )  We loved her experience and teacher at HC. 

We love our Elise.

Elise is very tender-hearted. 

My favorite is when

Elijah does or says something cute, we exchange knowing looks and giggle. 

She's creative and artsy. 

She's loves to sing and love's Glee's songs, especially "Don't Stop Believin'"

She's silly. 

She memorized some Nursery rhymes and puts her own spin on them sometimes. 

One of our favorite that she retells occasionally is:

"The once was an old man

who lived in a shoe.

He didn't know what to do!

So he picked up some broccoli

and put it in the fridge for about 18 minutes...

Then kissed them all sweetly

and put them in bed. (peals of laughter.)

Then he woke up

and said:

'Oh man!  A monster ate my broccoli!'"

I wrote it down so that she can illustrate it sometime soon... for kicks and giggles.