Elan's red chair

Elan is quite the funny kid!  Every morning when Mat drops Elan off at school he walks in, puts his stuff away and gets ready for breakfast.  However, even though there are many tables and chairs of all colors Elan likes to sit in the red chair at the head of the table.  He will seek out the red chair and move any other chair that is at the head of the table.  A few days ago a teacher was sitting with some other students in the red chair.  He waited patiently and when she got up to get him his cereal he switched her red chair with another one.  Too funny!

Elan has also become quite a singer.  We catch him all the time singing one of the many songs he knows.  It is really funny how quickly he picks up new songs.  This morning when we went to swim class we sung the "motor boat" song.  Then, when I was changing him in the locker room he started singing it again.  He probably has only sang that song this week and last week in swim class. 

Swim Class and Sledding

Elan started swim lessons again.  He moved up to the next level so he is one of the youngest in his class.  He still enjoys the water so hopefully we will see lots of improvement over the next 6 weeks.

We finally got a good amount of snow yesterday so today we took Elan sledding.  Elan had such a great time.  He laughed the entire time. He also really enjoyed walking through and eating the fresh snow.  Hopefully we will get more snow next weekend so we can go out again.

Winter Colds

Poor Elan came down with his first winter cold this weekend.  Mat picked him up from school on Friday and took him to the doctor.  Turns out he has an ear infection and pneumonia.  So, we got sent home with antibiotics and a nebulizer.  He actually does really well with the nebulizer.  We let him watch Thomas on the iPad and he just snuggles up with one of us. 

So, we spent the weekend hanging out around the house and relaxing.  Mat and I have been fighting the same cold so it was good for us all to stay in and stay warm.  The high on Sunday was 20!  Elan and Puna had a great time watching the Increadiable Dog Challenge on TV.  Hopefully next weekend will be warmer and everyone will feel better so we can have some family fun!

Warm January Weekend

This weekend was pretty warm so we tried to spend a lot of the day time outside.  On Saturday we went to Verrill Farm in Concord.  They had a pancake breakfast in their greenhouse.  I think they were planning for colder temps because the greenhouse was crazy hot.  But the pancakes were good!

We haven't posted a picture of Elan sleeping in a while so here is one.  He is still very cute when he sleeps.  It is usually holding onto a train.  We still haven't figured out how to get him to sleep under a blanket but for now we will keep him in warm clothes for naps and at night.