Super Fun

Eli's new favorite thing to do is be Super. Super Eli throws his arms into the air and runs around being super. Today, I made him a cape to match his superness. It made me feel super.
See? Super! (FYI - pants are not required to be super).
Super Eli showered in magic bubbles.
As we were leaving tonight, Eli took a little rest on the top step. He does this a lot, although it usually happens on the way up, not the way down.
Eli is getting ready to start preschool in a week and a half (unbelievable!). We bought a little fall jacket and sweet REI backpack for him today. These items made him (and us) perfectly giddy. He ran around REI celebrating his big-boy-ness.
He's ready for school - or to hike to A.T. He LOVES that his pack has buckles in front just like Dad's.
On CT result day Eli helped me bake a little celebratory cake. He ate it very seriously with a little fork. Cake, apparently, is no laughing matter.
But noses are.

Eli is full of tricks lately:

• This morning he sat on the train table with a Sesame Street book and recited one of the jokes Ernie tells, complete with gheee gheee gheee Ernie laugh at the end.
• He also loves to do the piggies on his own toes or on Harry's. He goes through all five, from market-going to wee wee weeing.
• Tonight at the Spaghetti Factory (yum) we heard the wait staff sing Happy Bithday at least four times. All the way home Eli sang himself and Harry Happy Birthday.
• He asks us every ten minutes if we're "Ready to Go?" He loves our new place because there's so much to do - as long as you're willing to scale the three flights of stairs. He has figured out the key - frequent rest breaks - and as soon as I can get down that low again, I will join him in his little sidewalk naps.