Elijah's had fun since the last update, it just took a while to get the pictures together.
He played outside a bit.

He also played at the library's Storyville.

Then he played at Chik-Fil-A

We took him to a petting zoo.

We saw goats, llamas, ducks, rabbits, and a big ox.




We're trying to teach him to use a spoon. The results are very messy at best.

More playtime:

Now the required picture of him sleeping.

Easter Sunday

Time for Easter service, so we dressed up.




After that, we went to have lunch. He played Checkers after eating.

Easter Egg Hunting

Time for the hunting of plastic eggs. Elijah has his own bucket and everything.

There were lots to find, of course.

He was very ready to go.

As an aside, is it too early for piano lessons? He keeps wanting to go up there.

Before he hunted eggs, he (his mom, actually) made a little cross with jelly beans on it.


Then it was time to play some games.

Then we played a game with this huge parachute thing.

He had more fun running around under it, though.

Upstairs for a quick drink,

Then outside to look for eggs.



Find the egg.

Get the egg in the bucket.

Ooh, lots of eggs!

Then lunch after that.

Lunch time is always a good time.

OK, all this is enough to really tire a kid out.

I'd like to start this post by saying it's getting harder and harder to take pictures of this kid.

Unless he's sleeping, of course.

Sometimes he'll hold still enough for a picture, like these at church.



Whee! Having fun driving around the grocery store.

Eating some spring roll.

There's a library near here that has a really great place to play, and his mother takes him there whenever she can.

Zoo Visit

Saturday was his first visit to a zoo. This one was the National Zoo. It was the first weekend with nice weather we've had, so we decided to go. Unfortunately, so did about half of everybody who lives anywhere near.

We saw some animals we hadn't seen before, like this maned wolf from South America:

Not sure why, but there was a fire engine in the zoo, also.

We saw the famous pandas.

An Indian elephant:

I'm not sure how, but his mom gets the animals to look right at the camera.


They even had a dinosaur. It's a movie called The Enormous Egg from 1967. Elijah liked it.


Then he got to ride a bear.

We saw an alligator. We kept our distance.

Then we saw a dragon.

The whole trip was predictably exhausting for the little guy.