The Dress is Done!

I am sure you are wondering why I have been so negligent in documenting our family's every move. I have been working on Leah's Easter dress. Now, a normal person probably would have finished the dress in a day or two...it took me over a week...I ripped out a lot of seams, and re-did a lot of things, but it is finally done! I finished it on Monday. I'm so glad to have it finished before Easter :) So my evenings, when I usually find the time to post, have been taken up with that. We really haven't done an enormous amount of exciting things, but I do have a few pictures of a couple of things.

On the 8th we went to a nearby park. I love this park. It is so beautiful and peaceful. Eli enjoys the boardwalk, and I love just letting him run on ahead-there is no way off the boardwalk, so he just runs around, and I can't loose him :) Unless he tries to jump in the water...but surely he would never do that. He had BETTER not anyway. That water is kinda swampy. Anyway, this is pretty much what I saw of him while on the boardwalk.
I love it when you can't really tell where the trees stop and the water starts...

Eli checking out the view

Leah came along too. She did fall asleep fairly early on, so I really didn't take many pictures of her.

Apparently he has thought about it...this is as far as he got though :)

So beautiful...

There were a few people enjoying the scenery and quiet...until Eli started shouting for a squirrel...he was walking all down the boardwalk yelling 'squirrel! squirrel!!!' It kinda broke the peacefulness, but it was pretty cute :) And the squirrels seemed to be listening...

Eli discovered near the end of our walk that there were cracks in the sidewalk, and for a bit seemed to be afraid that he was going to fall through. It was pretty funny watching him walk trying to avoid the cracks...

'Hello'

Then he tried shoving things down through the cracks.

Like I said...Leah was asleep for most of this.

After the boardwalk Eli decided to collect some sticks...because that's what boys do.

He got a few. Fortunately (this time) he didn't feel the need to take them home with us. It was a very nice morning. We were there for a couple of hours before heading for home. Eli took a good nap that day :)

Since then we've gone a few places...like the mall, my class, BSF, and the playground several times. We've been getting ready for Easter-SO looking forward to this Sunday!!

Last night we got out one of Eli's Christmas presents.

He wasn't sure what to think of it. He wanted to run through...kind of. But the water was pretty cold, and it was 6:30 at night, so not super warm.

Daddy helped him go through :)

When we turned the water off, Eli was so sad...He went over and stood right over it to check it out, and Edgar turned the water on...here is his reaction :)

RUN!

Okay, so the pictures don't really do it justice. It was pretty funny. Eli didn't really think so. Somehow I think someday he'll 'get us back' for that one...

Today was BSF again, and then Krista came over for lunch. Eli had loads of fun playing with Katie-he loves his cousin :) It was nice to hang out for a little bit before they had to leave.

Oh...and Edgar ordered our tile for our kitchen tonight. We really did it. We will soon have tile on our floor. Well...we'll have the tile that goes on the floor in the house. We'll see when we get the chance to actually lay the tile.

Oh yeah...at some point in the last few days, I discovered that Eli can read the words Eli, Stop, Go, and Dog. I don't remember the day he did it, but I was pretty impressed. I wrote the word, asked him what it said, and he read it.

And that is the end of this post. I need to go to bed. What's that? You wanted to SEE the aforementioned dress? You will. On Easter Sunday :)