Friends for Lunch

We had Nate Dorsing over during the day this Monday and Tuesday. He and Elijah played together and had a lovely lunch of bananas and grilled cheese at Casa de Brechtos.They had a great time making faces at each other and talking about the weather and their favorite toys and music.

Elijah smiled and laughed at Nate

who smiled and laughed back!

We had a great time together! Elijah actually cried when Nate left on Tuesday. He was upset that his new friend had to go home.

Big Day at the Park

It was a beautiful spring day, (Spring in MN still means a hat and coat) so we took a nice family walk to the park. Elijah's favorites at the park?

1. Playing with wood chips.
2. Watching other people.
3. The swing.

Since watching other people is either boring.. or weird... for mom and dad, and he tries to eat wood chips, we spent a lot of time on the swing.

Getting ready...

And we're off!!!

Woah, there's some people over there. What are they doing?

Weeeeee!!!

(It was a bit breezy)

We keep swinging anyway!


And here is some riveting video footage of the rest of the action. Slides are our 4th favorite, as long as we don't smack our heads on them.

Happy Easter!

For Easter we spent the afternoon with our friends at Fogo De Chao!
We ate glorious meats and salad bar foods, followed by meats! Elijah was more interested in Cheerios, though. It was a great time.

Then we came back to our house to relax and watch the latest Doctor Who before playing music for an evening Easter service. All in all... a pretty great Easter!


The boys being totally engrossed in their Easter baskets and candy!

Elijah thinks Easter is GREAT!

Okay. It's true. This is the same Easter gift that Grandma and Grandpa Brecht got him last year, but he was only about 4 days old then, and surprisingly, he didn't remember.