Elliot loves helping and copying.If Karolina is vacuuming, he wants to vacuum.

If I am turning a screwdriver to replace dimmer switches in Cordillera, Elliot wants to turn the screwdriver.

If we’re walking Chinle, he wants to hold the leash.

Stirring the soup? He wants to stir.

And on and on. So many things.

Sometimes he repeats something we did, but much later. Tonight he took a bath. He opened up the bath-book that my sister got him when he was born. He pointed at the pictures and imitated reading, just as we did with the same book so many times.

More than an this, Elliot LOVES throwing stones and sticks and pinecones into the ponds and streams at the Cordillera house.

He loves being outdoors with Taylor the baby sitter.