Butterflies

Things have been going great here. Eli is stringing words together here and there ("achoo dada" when dad sneezes, "bye Christa" when Christa leaves the room, etc.) We've started packing a few things for our move next month, and the quarter is winding down in a couple of weeks. Here are the latest adventures of Eli:

Sitting on the wood stove, which is now accessible, since the gate is down. Hooray for spring!
Goober.
Not sure what's going on here.

Making a mess in his high chair.
Yesterday Eli got to take a very short ride in yellow Jeep. He had a blast. When it was time to get out, we had a good 5 minutes of "No, dada. No no no, dada. No." He loves it.

Today we took Eli to the Butterfly Pavilion. He was sleepy for most of the time.

He did perk up after a while.
We had to carry him a lot, to help him see the butterflies and to help him not squash them.

Eli is good at smelling flowers now.

This is the honeycomb exhibit. Eli is pretending to be a worker bee.
This thing made a mosquito proboscis (no idea if I spelled that right) go up and down. But Eli just liked spinning it around and around.

Here are some shots of flowers and butterflies.