five months old

The boys at 5 months old

thinking of others

When visiting the doctor for his well child appointment, Elijah was asked to write his name on a piece of paper. The doctor was sitting across from him. Below is a picture of what he did. He wrote his name left to right, but turned all the letters upside down so that the doctor could read them. Then he wrote Minnie to the left of his name, since that's where there was space. :)


The doctor was rather impressed. She said she had had pictures drawn for her upside down, but she had never had anyone write for her upside down. She commented that this usually showed that a child was very attentive to the thoughts and feelings of others.

In case you wonder if he just doesn't know how to write right side up, I can assure you that he does. :) He does write an occasional letter backwards now and then, but we have never seen him do what he's done at the doctor's office.

Elijah - 5 years old

Elijah's yearly doctor appointment comes about a month after his actual birthday, but here are the stats anyway:

Weight: 42.99 lbs (64%)
Height: 44.02 inches (69%)

sleeping without sweatshirt

Last night for the first time in years Elijah went to bed having forgotten Sweatshirt on the couch. We didn't realize it until we came out of the boys' bedroom and saw Sweatshirt in the living room. Our first thought was to take it in to Elijah, but then we decided to wait and see what would happen. Nothing did. We quickly forgot about it.

This morning Elijah came out of his bedroom looking thoughtful. He looked around the living room and his first question was, "Where's Sweatshirt?" I pointed to the couch. He picked it up and did his normal sleeve-to-nose gesture. Then he told me he was looking for it on his bed thinking it must have fallen down at night and couldn't find it.

Tonight he made sure Sweatshirt was back in his bed. I guess we are not quite ready to give it up.