Cousins & a New Playroom

This past weekend we had the opportunity to take a quick trip to Columbia. We've been wanting to spend some time with Katie, Charles and the boys at their new house(ok maybe its not that new anymore), so we decided that we better take advantage of a free weekend before baseball season officially starts. We may only live a few hours away from each other, but its still hard to see each other as often as we'd like. We're very anxiously awaiting Baby Smoak #3 to be born in August, and we're dieing to know if Eli will be getting a new boy or girl cousin!

It was fun to see Eli interacting with the boys, and trying to keep up. He was so interested in everything that they were doing, and likewise were Chase and Jacob. They enjoyed playing with Eli's toys, and as always, Chase was the first to offer his help in anything that involved caring for the baby. He is going to be so fun to watch with his new brother or sister!

We took the kids to the park on Saturday, and got to enjoy some much needed sunshine! Katie took some really good pictures of Eli while we were there.




After a few rough weeks of unsucessful baby-proofing in our living room, we finally turned our sunroom/breakfast nook into a full playroom for Eli. We still have several things to get, but it's already been a LIFE SAVER! He's just all over the place, and it was impossible to get anything done around the house with our previous set up. We knew that we would run into problems once he started crawling. Ive never wanted carpet so bad in my life!




He now has very comfy carpet to crawl on, and hopefully his poor little knees will start healing up. We still have to order a gate for the doorway, find some toy boxes, and I think we'll also do some sort of fun bean bag chair. We'll definitely miss eating every meal out there, but I'll take my sanity instead! We have a perfectly good dining room that we'll finally get to use.

Now we just play,play,play all day!