Elliott's first camping expedition

Giant City, IL

Canada 2009

We had another wonderful trip up north again this year!

Bath faces

Elliott always enjoys a good bath. On this particular evening, Lennox and Mama went swimming and Papa and Elliott stayed home. Elliott screamed at Papa the entire time Mama and Nox were gone, except for during his bath. Gotta love the bath.

Tackle!

Lennox is down for the count!

Beer me!

Just watching the tube, waiting for Mama to bring me a brewski ...

Boat boy

Lennox is king of the ocean. ... OK, maybe just Lake Mattoon.

Mug shot

Elliott is a pretty smiley dude, but this is the closest we've come to catching it on camera. I think we are suffering from second-child syndrome on our picture-taking.

Beautiful baby

I have a burning desire to enter Elliott in the "Most Beautiful Baby" contest at the county fair tomorrow, but I think Jason is going to keep me in line and stop me from doing it. We both know it's just a scam to separate egotistical parents from their money, but I really think he has a shot at the title! Alas, I will instead award him first place for Most Beautiful Baby on this blog. The prize? 100 kisses. Way to go, Elliott!

Cinderelly

We took Lennox to his first play recently: "Cinderella" at the Little Theatre in Sullivan. He seemed to enjoy it, but he was a bit disturbed by how different it was from his book. I think he would have liked to have seen the mice up there, too. He liked the character who played the King because he had glasses exactly like Nox's.

Elliott enjoyed a little extra attention from Norma while the rest of the fam was at the theater.

Frog fun

Sometimes when Lennox wakes up in the morning, there is a special treat waiting for him. Papa likes to go froggin' after dark and catch a few hoppers for Nox. We play with them in the morning and then let them go back to their pond. Nox loves it!

He also got a charge out of the turtle Opa found for him.