Blog Much? Neither do we apparently.

Sorry for the break.

Here's a little fun we've gotten into the last day or two...
Literally - in to.


The boys love fall! School starts back. More students move into our building. They buy furniture and let the boys play in the boxes. Win, win, win, win!


Today we took a loooooong walk.
The primary destination was Ben and Jerry's. Clearly.
After B&J we meandered home through campus, stopping at all our favorite spots.
The pond. This is one of those places we go a lot. Ergo we have lots of photos here of our boys at all ages. So sometimes when I see them here it hits me: "GEEZ! They're huge!"

Eli ustacouldn't see over the rail. And now he stoops and can still rest his chin on it.

HUGE!

And sweet baby Amos came here as a two-day-old.
And today he started at one side of the rail, and step by step, grab by grab, made his way to the other side.
He's a gem.
I love this photo. It's making me even more excited about the photography class I recently signed up for.


And we finished off the adventure with a little brother snuggle.

Good stuff.

Ok, back to kid business.

The boys and I went on a little adventure this morning (that's right. church smurch). We walked to the little Pearl Street Farmer's Market.

It's a great little market. It's smaller than our normal Saturday Cherry Creek Farmer's Market. It has all the fresh goodies, but no Biscuit Bus :-(. But, as a bonus, all the fun little Pearl Street shops are open.The boys got their faces painted. Eli made Amos go first. He got a mouse.
Eli wanted an elephant (in honor of Harry), but the face painter wasn't feeling too confident in elephant drawing, so he chose from her sheet of options.
A baseball. That's random.
We had just arrived and he was already fading. But he perked up after some water and snacks.
I just love boys in stripes.
We came upon our buddies Luca, Elsa, Courtney, and Fausto! While Luca was sidewalk chalking, Eli thought he might get away with stealing his lovey monkey. No such luck.
Then we walked to Illegal Pete's for lunch (seems wrong to leave the Farmer's Market to get lunch, but we walked there, had breakfast, walked almost home, and by that point we were hungry again and it was almost noon).
Eli had an excellent sweat-hawk.
Amos scored all organic farmer's market duds because I didn't change him out of his footy pajamas before our walk and it got hot real fast. He looks so cute.
Fading again but almost home. That little thing there is a genius invention. It's a car shaped fingernail clipper. Eli let me clip his nails with it for the first time EVER without a fight.
It was quite a lovely morning. Now two boys are asleep on the floor (Amos and Eric) and one in the bed (Eli). Good Sunday.

Birthday Wrap Up

Eli and I have had a wonderful 1st birthday! We stayed around the house and played. He took two sweet little naps (rare these days) so I could get some work done. We had two nice rain showers, complete with some thunder. Mostly, we just celebrated the existence of Eli.
Man, this is the best photo ever. That's one pleased little goof.
Look at that one-year-old (in conductor pants, just in case a train comes by).
Once Dad got home, we had a quick dinner. After a few bites, Eli began to reject the veggie and pasta mush. I guess he saw the cake on the counter.
First Birthday Carrot Cake!
Exciting!
He never did dig in. He took tiny bird bites, but enough to make a fine green mess and get a nice sugar high.
So, the birthday was a sweet one. Thanks to all of the loved ones who sent happy birthday emails, wishes, goodies, text messages, and voice mail serenades. We love you all. Eli is now up 32 minutes past his bedtime, with permanently green fingers and cheeks, and skittering all over the living room like never before. The sugar has definitely kicked in.

Now, as an Eli's birthday gift to all of you - see him take some steps! He has walked up to six steps at a time! But in this video, he takes just two. He usually get's hip to it once we get started, and starts just jumping and playing instead of walking. But, it's all so fun, we love it!