Speaking of Amish......

This is Eli in his homemade (well, at grandma's home, not mine) Thomas Edison get-up. He had to research a famous person for school, then the whole class dressed up as their famous people and had a 'museum exhibit'. We had asked Grandma Sherry if she could fashion up something for Eli, thinking a lab coat might be doable. A week later she hands Eli this 3-piece suit, tie and all. He is a boy who loves his sweatpants, but he was really quite proud of this suit. After school that day I had to go to the hardware store, so Eli (in suit) and Theo walked down Snelling Avenue with me. Eli turned many a head, and one fellow Expo parent asked, "What's with the Amish kid?" as we passed. I tried to get him to show up to yesterday's Amish Envy Club meeting in the suit, but he wouldn't do it. Lucky that he didn't, or we would have had to really get out the old wash tubs.