Check out this impressive elephant made by Rachel (a friend of Stefin's from high-school).Other cool things in our lives lately:
Cakey babysat for us for a couple of hours on Saturday so we could take a bike ride. We rode through City Park (scoping potential sites for a wedding celebration, minding the evil stinging caterpillars) and up to Lake Ponchatrain. I hadn't been on an actual bike ride since September (when my belly really started getting big), and so this beautiful new toy Stefin found me on craiglist had mostly just been sitting teasingly, unused in our back shed. It felt so good to be rolling around again, and it was a gorgeous day.
Later we went to the French Quarter; the French Quarter Festival was going on, but we didn't actually catch any shows. Instead we people-watched, met up with a teacher S worked with in Virginia, and took the ferry to Algiers Point for a couple of beers.
On our way back home we stopped at the old house, where they had grilled up a feast, and then at another party for/by some of Stefin's coworkers. Aeli partied super hard and threw up on a pretty girl's dress.
Today we hung out a bit in the garden (Stefin does this very nice thing on weekend mornings for me where he gets up with the baby when I'm so not ready to. They go water the plants and I get a couple more hours of blissful rest); Aeli cuddled his lizard.
Then Aeli got a bath (since these 80 degree days have led to much in the way of sweating-through-your-onesie), and now he's kicking around with what Papa Bear calls "fluffy bird hair."Life is good.
Looks like you had a wonderful day.
ReplyDeletebeautiful elephant! I'm glad you got a bike ride in :) that picture of aeli and his lizard is sooo sweet! he really is holding on to it like he knows it's his!
ReplyDeletei'm going to have garrison read this post. i want some sleep in weekend time! ;)
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