last wednesday the boys and i, eager to get out of this darn house on a beautiful warm warm warm spring day, donned our sandals, packed our snacks water bottles and diapers aplenty and headed out to meet my mom, brother, grandmother and friend at elmwood, memphis’s oldest cemetary. my brother eliot is in 5th grade, homeschooled, so this was supposed to be a field trip for him. you can basically glean memphis’s entire history from this place, the have revolutionary war veterans, yellow fever vicitms, civil war casualties and veterans, a mass grave for the sultana victims, and many memphis personalities both famous and infamous. but anyway, not much to tell, we had the best time strolling around the park for several hours, enjoying the sun, the breeze, the flowering trees and all the beautiful monuments to lives lived in every kind of way. it was surreal and strange, chilling at times, to see my 16 month old baby playing so happlily amongst the stones, so many of them for babies his age and his brothers age. but over-thinking aside, it was a lovely day, the best sort of outing we could have had. and eero slept the whole time.
arriving on the scene. he took off running. i really wanted to get a picture of him amongst the flowers at the entrance. this was the best i could do.
babies, ready to go, longing for the day when they can be pushed together in their double bob.
this photo could have been taken at any point during our entire 3 hour stroll.
uncle E: gun toting baby-protector, ghost-killer and uncle extraordinaire, 12 years old as of yesterday. i love this guy.
he liked examining the stones. it was strange.
trying to escape, trying to see if i'm coming after him. which of course, i was. he promptly took off running again just after i snapped this shot.
grandmother teri and babies in front of our favorite tree in the park, a beautiful tulip. the strange lady to the left is my grandmother patsy. i think she was probably trying to make elijah smile.
relaxing on the porch after a long day at the graveyard.
cousin gavin came over for a visit later that day. he had so much fun he fell asleep.... lori came by too! i love this photo.
smiling in his sleep after a long great day.
