labor day

in addition to picking apples and making applesauce (post on that to come soon) we enjoyed having monday off this week. the morning was spent on working on some projects while eli napped and in the afternoon we decided to bike over to the madison children's museum. as a child, i have very fond memories of playing at the minneapolis children's museum. i remember my favorites being a mock grocery store where you could play clerk and a mock tv studio. the madison children's museum just reopened a few weeks ago and it is quite spectacular. one great thing is that they have an area that is only for kids 5 and under. there are tons of wooden and fabric toys to play with, walking aids, percussion instruments and, the total hit, a water room. seriously, that room was the busiest room in the place! they do have smocks that the kids can wear but we're not sure what the point is, they get soaked anyways. we decided that next time around we'll just let eli get wet and bring a change of clothes. we actually brought our camera along for once hence the pictures. all in all we had a great day.

apple picking

we were some lucky folks this weekend. we had the pleasure of going apple picking at door creek orchard with mary, jon and their little one.









here's to many more years to come!

finally crawling!

so eli is finally army crawling. we have such a chill baby, definitely an observer. he just likes to check things out but doesn't necessarily need to move around the room. we have discovered that he does tend to be more motivated to crawl towards objects he finds interesting. then he takes off! he's mostly interested in blocks, the dishwasher and cheerios that i don't quite get with the broom.

here's a little demo of his crawling skills.