Meet Elliot, finally!

I think I have mentioned in previous posts that we have two new baby boys in our neighborhood. Followers of this blog met Riley Grover a few days ago. Yesterday, we finally met Elliot Perkins, who was born three days before Riley, if I'm not mistaken. So these are six-month-old, very robust baby boys! Elliot's parents, Phil and Ashley, live in the house at the bottom of our driveway which has been under reconstruction for the last year or so. It was formerly the home of "Jake" Jaquith, a former teacher of math at Brattleboro Middle School. After living alone in the house for years, Jake had to go into a nursing home, and died earlier this year. Phil and Ashley had to basically gut the house and rebuild it; plus they added a wing. It is a work in progress, and now they have Elliot! And Phil works nights as a policeman in Springfield! So they have their hands full! But they seem to be enjoying it, and the house will be lovely when it's all done. More power to them! Just before going to see them, I drove down to check the mail and discovered a tree down over the road, blocking the road. Not a big tree, but I couldn't budge it, and I no longer have a chain saw. I called Zach, and he called Phil, who immediately came up and cleared it! Good neighbors! We are so fortunate!

Phil, Ashley and Elliot Perkins.

Close-up of Elliot. ***************************++++++++++++ Both Elliot and Riley will be walking before long, and before we know it, they'll be running up the driveway!