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I have a bunch of pictures from June that I have wanted to post, but just haven't gotten around to it. So, here are some random pictures from June and one from July.

Here are Eli and his French girlfriend, Abigail, playing house in her cardboard box. She actually really bosses him around, pushes him, hits him, and he just smiles at her and takes it all. It must be love.


In one of my mom's groups, all of the babies are turning one or turned one sometime between March and September. We decided it would be easier to have one big party instead of worrying about going to 15 parties or planning a party for 45 extra people. Here they all are, they've changed so much from the picture posted in February. There was a lot of cookie bribery going on to get them all to sit still for a minute so we could take the picture and that still didn't work very well.


Well, actually the cookie bribe worked very well for Eli and Daniela. They were still sitting even after all the other babies ran away. Then we started taking a ton of pictures of just them and they just sat and smiled.


Malcolm and Eli having fun in the dragon tunnel at the park.


Columbus has its annual Doo-Dah parade on the 4th of July. Basically, anyone who wants to be in the parade can so there are a lot of strange things not seen in a usual parade and lots of people making political statements. Eli sat in awe, smiled and clapped the whole hour as the parade went by. And he saw it all: Rollergirls, topless women (its legal in Columbus for women to go topless and they do, who would have thought that Ohio was a red state), people on double decker bikes, promoters of Rocky Horror Picture Show, people with skulls painted all over their faces, etc. He loved every minute of it and kept looking down the street for more.