using the electric pressure washer to blow out the gunk from our clogged drainage pipe.. in the rain	ick! Mike spends all weekend wrestling with gooky waterlogged bleckth	Lorelei trying on Rachel's Crocs
birthday and un-birthday presents from Memere and Pepere	ooh, balls! Lorelei's far more excited about Elliott's balls and mitt	Elliott meanwhile checks out Lorelei's clothes..
oh, just a bib?	balls.. balls.. how can I get them out of here?	Cute! Gotta love the first few years, when parents can dress their kids in ridiculous outfits without their consent. It's cute now, but what will they think when they're 30? :-)
Look Nana! Balls!	modelling the crumb catching bib	Elliott always stops to smell the flowers
Rachel enjoying some wheat thins	Rachel watching Lorelei watch Rachel talk to the boyfriend	mmm, hot chocolate pie, consolation for the flood clean-up
it didn't set, but that didn't stop us from eating it!	Even Lorelei gets in on the festivities	Mmm.. Mike and I were hoping for the spoils, but Elliott ate every speck
As if that wasn't enough, Dot and Ken stopped by, bringing ice cream sandwiches for the weary!	After hours of separating and draping Jess' papers over everything to dry.. ugh.	Fiona is spooked by all the commotion.
trying to dry things out.. running several dehumidifiers and fans. It actually dried out quite nicely down there. I don't want to see this month's electricity bill though!	Lorelei enjoys a bagel at the Village Cup, waiting for Elliott to finish his last day of preschool for the year (it was cold and drizzly, and I was too busy trying not to cry, so I didn't get any pictures of his actual last day, sorry!)	Elliott makes "pretend soup" with the rest of Lorelei's bagel - ugh!
	Lorelei finally figures out how to climb onto the tippy swivelling rocking chair - uh oh! Boy is she thrilled!	Elliott tickling babe
Lorelei exploring a container - she MUST climb into/onto all containers of any size	Elliott taking a break from his painting project	the orange blotches are ha making factories, and the oter spots are footprints from animals around the factories
Lorelei wants to paint too, so she gets her aquadoodle	Elliott discovers that velcro fruit sticks to certain stuffed animals	somewhere in there is a small dog!
snuggle bunny	Lorelei LOVES Basil
	Elliott demonstrating his trademark skeptic expression
I don't think that stroller is meant for actual babies!
Shadow sleeps through almost anything.. just loves to keep us company
Lorelei scores the remote!	We headed over to Grandma's for a wonderful lunch and trip to the park. We ate outside because Lorelei was sleeping in the car..	prancing on the hill, so happy the rain stopped!
Lorelei exploring	she immediately heads off to shoot some hoops.. this isn't the first time she abandoned playground equipment to watch people in organized team sports	Grandma helps her down the slide
Boo!	Gotcha!	Elliott discovered a huge population of gypsie moth catepillars, and built a little house for them with pine cones and playground debris
Lorelei enjoying a yummy cookie from Grandma		Hey, these are pretty good!
Elliott shows his friends		enjoying the sun
I oscillated between feeling sorry for the catepillars and trying not to break the news that they're pests, and most of us squish them with impunity..		pop! Lorelei loves to pick the flower heads off of dandilions and anything else she can
chocolate man..	the kids enjoy helping Mama clean.. they fight over the vacuum and dust buster	Lorelei begging for a ride in the backpack
at the Sandhill park with Tracy and the girls	red bucket.. in! the girls demonstrate their language explosion	Elliott Monkey Boy, masters all playground elements within minutes
	hugging a ball
Kira inspects our camera	the girls all follow a large dog off into the woods
up the hill, down the hill, up the hill...		Elliott drums on the stump and sings silly songs
safe and not safe	in endless pursuit of the dog ("ah! ah! AH!")	too cute, the girls hold hands as we all go back to the car
		muffin enjoying a muffin
Elliott and Mike get started on the outside portion of play structure building	I bring Lorelei in for a snack and nap
that's one way to count..		Happy boy
Grumpy boy	ah, that's better!	the frame is up..
it was THIS big!	looking casual..	We are driven in by a huge downpour, but minutes later and with dry clothes, they're back out
last picture of the day - not bad! (we had assembled the rock wall and the steps in the basement the week before)	Within MINUTES of arriving for Jaime and Sabrina's wedding, Elliott runs into a grassy field and falls, grass staining a knee, picks up fistfuls of sand and trickles them over his shirt, pants and into his shoes, and slides on his butt into a drainage ditch. Never again will this kid wear khaki pants to any formal function!	boy discovers boy
Lorelei looking pretty, and determined to NEVER let me get her looking at the camera and in-focus at the same time.. sigh!	Wendy and Ryan looking adorable	grass, oh!
breezy day
the wedding party.. just a coincidence that Lorelei coordinated. :-)	Mike in a tie! Amazing!	Cute if it were in focus, and if I hadn't cut off her head.. sigh!
I think this is the best picture I got.. she was cute, trust me	Sabrina looking beautiful	we tried to get a photo of the kids sitting on a bench. Alas, the sun was in Elliott's eyes, and Lorelei HAD to stand up. oh well!
playing peekaboo with the table cloth at the reception	cheers! Elliott was excited to drink from a wine glass
Beep!
Lorelei trying on Wendy's shoes. She LOVES shoes		looking at a lizard in the lodge during a nursing break
	Lorelei loved walking across the dance floor.. far easier than negotiating on the grass	their yummy wedding cake - chocolate, carrot, and strawberry shortcake!
looking all cool..	cute, blurry, washed-out.. the stuff of life.	Charlie explaining his way out of the doghouse after walking all the way back to the car et PJs for the boy, only to find out they were *gasp* the wrong ones! (fleece in May?)
Elliott bonding with random boys..	see? see the smile? yes, I did ask him to stop tackling the other children. Really, I've never seen him act like this before! Honest!	Quack.
Baah.	I can't even begin to spell the sound this peacock made, but it was eerie!	more baah.
ooh!	and a pony too! (horse?)	frowny grumpus. Man do we see a lot of this expression! What was upsetting him? How long it was taking them to cut the wedding cake - the thing he'd been waiting for ALL DAY.
Aww, that's our cute boy, even with clashing handmedown bow tie! (he really wanted to be "fancy" like Dada)	spiffy tent, gorgeous day (minus black flies)	Mike finally figures out how to keep track of Elliott
cutting the cake..	the animals get fed	our cute couple (aw, poor Jaime got bitten!)
Yay! (blurry, but otherwise endearing)	Lorelei and Jess involuntarily dancing to some 80s song as Elliott bops her bum and makes her laugh	ok, this HAS to be the worst wedding picture EVER!
pretty dress..	Elliott in heaven, downs the entire chocolate cake	yum yum yum yum yum
Becky playing with the kids	Lorelei trying her hand at a game
Is she actually trying to get me to fall asleep?	it would have worked too!
a wedding wouldn't be complete without he macarena! (apologies if I misspelled that one)	Elliott explored the lodge and finally ended up in a sauna (not on, luckily for him since he had to touch the rocks and pick up the ladle). Whew! I think this is just about the last wedding we'll be going to for a while with this kiddo.