Greatest Monday Ever

Hit the Field Museum and the Shedd today. Took the CTA so we got to ride in a "passenger train" per Isaak.

Beyond exhausted by the end of the day. Plus, Natalie pooped on the carpet. Big fun.

Porch shot

Daddy Hobbit and Valerie TOO!!

Crazy weekend. D and Valerie are here too. Elliot used Valerie as a sticker book for Dinos. She and D also led the charge on baba and books at the end of the day.

The Cousins are Here!

Aaron, Lynelle, August, Jasper and Isaak all came in from Montana for a visit. Thursday, we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. Today we head to the Lincoln Park Zoo (weather permitting).

We aren't sure who had more fun, the kids or Grandpa Owie.

Face Paint

Jenny brought face paint and took the kids to see the dinos at the Field Museum today. She is the coolest.

Elliot is a protoceratops. (The barrettes are his horns, I think.) Natalie is a Kitty. Jenny is a T Rex.

Garden Party

Grandma Bonnie and Suzanne Cohan-Lange came over Sunday expecting to help on interior design stuff but ended up shoveling construction waste in the back yard. Some spring flowers are trying to make it out of the muck. Elliot took the pics.

The only shot of Bonnie centered on her butt so it didn't make the blog.

After some heavy lifting, we went to Crust for Bloody Marys and pizza. Much better.

Owie song

Natalie loves her grandpa owie so much she wrote a song about him.

The apartment

Grandpa Owie is back from Florida. It's on.

As we were demoing one wall of a dormer, we found some newspaper. It must have been from the original build out. Apparently, the sultan was slow to act in May of 1897.