Eliot & Benjamin

Sorry to have been so neglectful for awhile. Where do I possibly begin? So not to overwhelm myself, I will simply start with this week. One of my most favorite Eliot interactions happened this week. He was decorating a box I had received some mail in. I asked him what he was doing. "Making a box for Filini, it's sad, she's moving away." Well this is all news to me, first of all, who is Filini??? After some questioning, this is what I learned. Man I love this kid's mind!! Filini is the babysitter who comes to watch Eliot's babies (he has 5, an Okapi, a dog, a panda bear, a black bear, a brown bear and a monkey -- he is their boy mommy, another fabulous, but different conversation). So Filini comes to watch his babies when Eliot goes to school. Sadly she is now moving to Africa. She is going to be doing two things there. She is going to be the babysitter for African babies AND she is going to be an animal rescuer (probably akin to Diego). She is also going to meet up with his Okapi's daddy and his monkey's daddy and bring them back for visits. We actually helped Filini move tonight. Eliot took us in his fire engine to her house. Then he introduced us and we started moving boxes (onto an empty couch because the pillows were used in the construction of the fire engine). This is Eliot and Filini on her moving truck. If you can't tell Eliot has his arm around some space - that is where Filini is. It was fabulous he talked for her, had conversations with her (where he was the voice for both himself and her). But then when I was taking a photo he said "Mommy, you know Filini is pretend, right?" The next big news of the week is Ben has moved to a toddler bed. A fabulous fire truck bed that comes up on the sides so he still feels a bit like a crib. I bless the glorious name of craigslist when I can find stuff like this at prices I can afford. The boys put all of their stuffed animals onto the fire engine and thought it would be funny to bury themselves. Can you find Eliot? And that's it for now.