My friend Karla told us about this park. Its so close to where we live and has been around for a while but we never ventured down there as a family. So this will have to be the first trips of many. Their is a cool path that takes you along the water, a playground that Eli can play on and lots of grass for whatever you wanted to do.
At first Eli didn't want to play on the playground, so we got out his little push car that some friends gave to us this past week and we pushed him around. Then once he saw a basket ball he b-lined it to the play ground. But that ball belonged to another little boy that feels the same way about balls that Eli does so that was just a big disappointment. We almost left the park but then realized that Eli had his own ball in the car. After a long tantrum and not allowing us to put him in the car seat, I felt as though the small little boy needed some closure in his world. So we gave him his ball and set him on his way. To the playground he went, with his ball in hand. That led to a quit enjoyable time on the playground and lots of fun pictures.

So a few weeks ago Jeff's parents came to visit for the weekend. Right after they left we left for Chicago, then we got back and I realized that all of the photos from the time they came were on Jeff's computer and not mine. So I just got the pictures tonight and thought that I would be a good mom and post these photos of very special Grandparent visit.

We went to Central Market in Poulsbo to try to find some special four for a friend of Faiths. Once we found that we then found the local strawberries that they had for sample. I had to ask myself...."when is a sample no longer a sample, but more like a mini meal." I justified it though cause Eli was hungry and so was the baby. We lots of strawberries to say the least. After Central we went to Toys R Us so Richard could get Eli a Hoop. Eli was so beside himself and played with it the rest of the weekend. And currently it is still in the living room as the center piece toy. It has brought lots of fun for all of us.

Yeh I know there are a lot of videos but we found that it was so much fun to get it all in live action. If you watch all of these then you are fo'show a super cool biddley blogger.

(updated post with all the photos)
Here is the last bit of Chicago photos that I have. Mostly of the Shedd Aquarium. I have to say that I will actually miss Chicago. I don't think that I could live there, too cold in the winter and a bit too flat, but I would like to go back again. It would be fun to go during a spring or summer, when its not so cold. The food was so very good and there's lots to do as a family. We'll miss Ryan and Kristin too, its sad that they have to live so far away. Now we not only have to find someone with an Xbox 360 to play Scene It and Viva Pinata, but we also have to find someone who will come over play some cards with us. Can't wait till they move back to this side of the states!





Eli kept pointing to the next place to go. Mostly he was just copying us. But it was cute because he kept pointing to just random places. This was him pointing to nowhere particular right when I was pointing to the fish. Of course he always follows it by a rambleing of words that we can't understand, sounding rather serious and convincing that something very important lied ahead.