Brothers

What my children get into when I turn my head for a second. Yes Eloise is hanging off the shelf half naked, and yes she does look like a famine victim in this picture.

Corn chowder and bread, yum!

So I am trying to catch up with pictures and stuff while updating the blog. Here are some pictures from when my parents were up right before my Mom’s birthday and my Dad came with us to go pumpkin picking. We actually met some friends there too. Two of the boys in Eloise’s preschool class, plus their little sister, who is around Sully’s age, and their Mom, Dad and Grandmother. We all had a lot of fun, both picking pumpkins before we met up with Eloise’s friends and afterwards when they did the hay maze, and hay ride. It was a really nice day and we got a lot of pumpkins which we then carved which you can see in an earlier post.

First off with the pumpkins:

I love this one

I love this one too!

At the fall festival part of the farm:

On the hay ride

Eloise and her two friends from preschool watching the pumpkins go by

In the pictures things

As you can see everyone had fun.

So Sully is a third child. The benefits of being the third is sometimes you get to do things that your siblings would never be allowed to do at your age. Like eat an Oreo! Desmond was nice and got Oreos for everyone including Sully. By the time I noticed he had handed one to Sully it was really to late, since he had already started eating it. So the child has had an oreo, which I never would have allowed for Eloise or Desmond. For Sully I just took pictures and gave him a bath when he was done.

Yes we will continue to try to avoid giving him chocolate, cookies, sugar, cake, pie, but having semi-independent brothers who like to share, I am sure he will end up with more of the above before he turns 1. Unlike his big brother and sister, where it was far easier to restrict their access from it, since they couldn’t get it themselves, and Desmond was too little to get it for Eloise when she was a baby.

So I have been a bit bad about posting recently. We’ve been busy and Eloise, Sully and Dan were sick for part of October, so I just haven’t really felt like posting much. I have kept up the Wordless Wednesday though. Anyways we had a good Halloween. We went out to the mall the Saturday before Halloween because they were doing trick or treating there, and then we went out Halloween night as well.

We also had a nice little snow storm that Saturday after the trick or treating at the mall. Fortunately we didn’t get much unlike some of my friends in the North. All the snow we got was gone by Sunday, and we avoided the widespread power outages and such. It was kind of cool to have snow in October, even if it wasn’t much.

Anyways we went for a theme this year, Desmond was “Luke Skywalker with a blue lightsaber because the green one broke”, Eloise was “Princess Leia with a pink lightsaber”, and Sully was Yoda. Here are some pictures from the mall and then from Halloween itself. Desmond, Dan and Sully were out for awhile, Eloise lasted about 15 minutes, which was about what I expected.

The Mall:

On Halloween:

The pumpkins, back left Sulley (Monsters, Inc), front left standard halloween jack’o'lantern, front right Minnie Mouse, back right Mater (Cars)

I love this group shot, what Mom you wanted us to look at you?

7 Months Old
6 Teeth a teething
5 fingers grabbing
4 hands and knees crawling
3 words a babbling (mama, dada, bye)
2 legs a standing
1 tongue blowing raspberries

So we went to the playground yesterday. No big shock there, we have been going a lot since it is perfect playground weather right now. Since Dan was home though I took the big camera and got some pictures of Sully, since I could let him down, and someone could still keep an eye on the two bigger ones. Here are some pictures of Eloise and Desmond playing and of Sully exploring the playground.

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Sully had his 6 month appointment today it went great. He is doing great, we think the nurse measured him wrong so he is actually longer then his official stats, probably more like 27 inches, but it wasn’t a big enough issue to worry about. He is in the 80th percentile for weight and 50th for height this appointment. He also is in the 97th for head, he has a big head I guess. He is above target developmentally and the doctor has no worries about him. He is right between Eloise (15 pounds 4 ounces) and Desmond (19 pounds 13 ounces) weight at 6 months and he is the same height as Desmond (27 inches) was.

Here are his stats:
At birth he was 9 pounds 4 ounces and 22 inches
At one month he was 11 pounds 3 ounces and 23 inches
At 2 months he was 13 pounds and 24 inches
At 4 months he was 15 pounds 2 ounces
At 5 months he was 16 pounds 3 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At 6 months he was 17 pounds 8.5 ounces and 26 1/2 inches

In other exciting news Eloise is now up to 22 pounds and 8 ounces! She has gained almost 2 pounds since March and weighs almost the same as Desmond did at 9 months *grin*. She might actually make it to 24 pounds by 3.

6 months old