Sorry For the Delay, Saying Good-bye and Lorikeets

It's been too long since you've seen Mr. Eli and Little Miss Sadie. For that I do apologize. Things have been a little bit crazy around here including lack of electricity and no internet connection for ten days. So, I do have an excuse. (Ok, I missed the electricity thing as I was in North Dakota, but I did come home to an empty fridge.) Eli started school after we got back from our trip to North Dakota. I'd love to show you pictures except I just don't have any. Eli has not enjoyed the dropping off process very much, so it's been hard to peel him off my leg let alone get a good picture of him enjoying it! He enjoys it once I leave as he tells me "I had fun today!", but you would never know that by the sobbing I hear as I'm leaving the classroom. He is getting better. He said the other night, "Good-night, Mom. I love you. Good- night Miss Molly and Miss Lucy." So, I guess he likes his teachers a little bit.

On a much sadder note, Eli and Sadie's great-grandpa passed away on Thursday, September 18. Grandpa was a fiesty, loveable "fat-man" and I'm sure going to miss him. Here's a picture of grandpa meeting his great-grandson.

It was a fabulous day for the zoo. I've shown you thousands of pictures from the zoo, but I'm pretty sure none of them are of lorikeets: