the mitten four: Memorial weekend part 1

I went to Grand Rapids 4 days earlier than Jared to spend some extra time with family and because I have no other obligations this summer other than to attend mom/baby social events and hold down the fort at home. Elliott began crawling the week before and he's been wearing out his new skill ever since! He still crawls with what we call his "peg-leg" by sticking out his right leg straight and pushing off with his foot, but he can move pretty quickly considering he just learned how. He also pulled himself up for the first time a few days ago on the most dangerous place in the house, of course, the all-brick hearth. We have also been eating our way through Grand Rapids which is an easy trap to fall into these days with new restaurants popping up every other week. Fresh healthy vegetables, I promise we'll meet again...but probably not for another few days. For now I'll suffer through duck fat fries and fresh cheese curds. For exercise we walked up and down the stairs at Lake Michigan once while we were having our family memorial visit. Tough work!

I'll be posting in several separate posts to get all the photos and video in from our memorial week(end) trip. Here goes...