Here they are both on the sled! They really liked sledding together.

Here is a cute video of Desmond pulling Eloise while she is on the sled.

I have a bunch of videos of Desmond and Eloise sledding. First though here is Dan sledding yesterday. He is trying to pack down the snow so sledding will be easier. He doesn’t quite succeed though!

Desmond March 1, 2009

Desmond December 19, 2009

So we have had a huge snow storm here, it started last night and has dumped around 20 inches of snow here and we may get another inch or three before it is done. I think it is great, since I love snow, and it is fun to play in and take the small ones out in for awhile. We picked up a sled last night before the snow started, at the third place we tried, but unfortunately the snow wasn’t packed down enough to actually sled. Desmond still enjoyed playing with it though. Eloise really liked the snow too. She actually tried to eat it when sitting in it. When we took them out we probably had about 14 inches of snow, it was fairly deep and Desmond had some trouble trudging through it because of how deep it was, he loved it anyways though. Here are a bunch of snow pictures.

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So we are doing Christmas at our house this year. We normally do it at my in-laws, but with the two kids it is easier if my in-laws come here rather then us go over there. This means we need a tree. We had a fake tree when we lived in Atlanta, but I didn’t pack it when we moved up, since I am not a huge Christmas person, being Jewish and all, and we would celebrating at my in-laws anyways. So we haven’t had a tree since we moved up, actually I am pretty sure we haven’t had a tree since either 1999 or 2000, I am almost positive we didn’t put up the one we had in 2001.

So a few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving actually we picked up a fake tree from Target. We decided fake was safer with the two small ones, and less expensive in the long run. It was a fairly inexpensive tree, and it was on sale. We also picked up some ornaments. We had some left from when we last did a tree, but I couldn’t remember how many or if they were child safe, so we’ve been picking up child safe ornaments for our tree. We also picked up 3 strands of different color lights.

With the snow this weekend and it being less then a week to Christmas we decided to set up the tree today.

First we took it out of the box. Desmond decided the box was the best toy ever!

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Today was the first snow of the year so we bundled up Desmond and Eloise and took them out in it to get some pictures. Desmond apparently still mostly fits in his old snow suit so we put him in it. Eloise went into the infant snowsuit we bought when I was pregnant with Desmond, not realized he would outgrow it before fall, since it is a 9 month snowsuit. Oh well, at least Eloise wore it! Anyways we just went to the backyard to get the pictures, both of them seemed to enjoy the snow, though Desmond was done with in 15 minutes or so, probably because we couldn’t find his gloves.

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So while we were out in the snow Desmond picked up some snow and Dan showed him he could throw it. So he did, at Eloise. Here is Desmond and Eloise and the snowball!

What you doing Desmond?

The release

Mommy, Desmond threw some of this cold wet white stuff at me!

Here are a bunch more pictures from Disney World. I still have a bunch more to get, but this is the set off my small camera.

Here is Desmond enjoying the splash pad at Pop Century Resort

Here is Eloise at the Splash Pad as well

Here are Eloise, Desmond and Dan at the Mr. Potato Head sculpture at Pop Century

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It has been a busy few weeks. I just haven’t had much time to post. I have a bunch more Disney picture to put up and I still have some more to get.

Eloise is doing great she has 6 teeth, no clue when the last two came in, but somewhere around Disney most likely. She is cruising and standing on her own for a few seconds now, I figure she’ll be walking soon, probably by January, but it could be earlier or later.

Desmond is giving up his naps, which is a bit of a pain, since it would be nice to have those couple of hours in the afternoon, it is nice though since on days he doesn’t nap he goes to bed around 8pm. He is just about ready to potty train we think. We’re going to attempt to work on it this weekend and see how it goes.

We all had a great Thanksgiving with my family, we had lots of fun and I have some pictures to post from that eventually as well. It was a long drive, and Eloise wasn’t overly pleased, but it worked out. It was great seeing Mommom on the way down and back as well, since her house is a great stopping point for us and lets Desmond run around a bunch and Eloise move around as well.

We are in the middle of getting ready for Hanukkah and Christmas, we’re hosting Christmas at our house this year, we have a fake tree from Target and a bunch of ornaments, hopefully it will look nice. We’re also mostly done buying presents for the two small ones, I need to get one or two more things I think, but they are basically done. We still need to buy gifts for me and Dan though, we think we know what we want that is in our price range though so that is good.

I’ll post some Disney pictures in a few minutes and I’ll try to edit the Thanksgiving and other pictures I have to post soon as well. It looks like we might get some snow on Saturday, which could be fun too.