we woke up to another gift this morning.

it’s seriously amazing outside!  i have beautiful light pouring in through my windows, and i thought it was a good opportunity to try out my new seamless background.

it helps that i have gorgeous little boys at my disposal.  or i’d like to think so anyway.  eli was willing for a very short time, and dylan wouldn’t let me at all.  what i got was all i needed.

beautiful eli.

he is as sweet as he looks.

always loving and caring.  and also so eager to learn.

if you ever wanted to know facts about squid, eli’s your man.  it’s amazing how he has developed this interest in squid.  it’s going on about 4 months now, and he’s more interested than ever.  we’ve been branching out a bit into other sea animals, but he always finds his way back to squid.  he even begs us to take him out to dinner so he can eat it.  i would say that it’s his favorite thing to eat right now.  not just fried calamari either.  he actually likes to check out all of the parts of the squid as he’s eating it.  if i was even tempted to try it, i sure wasn’t after watching him.

when he grows up he wants to be a “scientist of the ocean”.  he even has the adults at his preschool coming up to him and telling him about this documentary they had seen, or something they have read about squid.

his mind is pretty spectacular…sometimes i feel a bit overwhelmed when he wants answers that i can’t give him, which is pretty much most of the time.  but we read lots of books, and eric goes online with him searching for squid videos and stuff. we have fun learning right along with him.