Yesterday Dan stayed home from work. Eloise decided she didn’t want to sleep till 4am so I was pretty sure it would have been a tough day solo. It was nice for Dan since he got to sleep in some and felt a lot more rested, which is good since he’s been tired since we got home from Disney, well at Disney as well.

Anyways the weather was wonderful, it was 70 and sunny so we took the two short ones to the playground to play. Desmond and Eloise both had a lot of fun. Eloise played on the ground and went down a few slides and Desmond ran all over and climbed everything he could and went down lots of slides. Here the two of them are playing.

Oh and who told Desmond he could grow into a little boy. He doesn’t look at all like a baby now and looks a lot more like a little boy then even a toddler. He is growing so fast.

Desmond giving Eloise a kiss

Eloise at the bottom of the slide

Desmond just hanging around

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Okay so I have pictures from 3 different sources for our Disney trip. I have some from our big camera, some from the little camera and some from the Disney photographers. I don’t actually have the ones from the Disney photographers yet and I haven’t downloaded and edited the ones from the small camera yet. Here are some of the pictures from the big camera though. We had a ton of fun, Desmond was exhausted by the end and is still exhausted a week later. It was a great vacation though and we can’t wait to return in 3 years or so.

These are not in any order just an fyi, just some of the pictures I took.

First off is Eloise and Tigger at our Winnie the Pooh breakfast.

Desmond and my Mom in Bruce’s mouth at Epcot (Bruce is a shark from Finding Nemo)

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So on Yom Kipper, I am just such a great Jew, I did an activity with Desmond. We made cupcakes. He really loves helping with this. He was okay at putting the cupcake papers in the muffin tins, he loved pouring the water into the mix and he liked mixing, he wasn’t quite up to cracking eggs yet though and I mixed in the butter because it was hot since I had melted it in the microwave. He also loved trying to frost them when they were done and cool and he really really really liked putting sprinkles on them, by the handful. So here is Desmond making cupcakes.

Here are a couple of pictures from a few weeks ago of Desmond stringing his beads. He is really enjoying this activity right now, it keeps him entertained for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, and he can do it all by himself at this point in time.

So last night we were at Target and Desmond was up ahead of us a bit, he stopped at a end cap display and picked up a decoration type thing, that was a wooden word. He then turned to me and Dan and said, “family” we looked at the wooden word and yep it did say family. I swear the child can read, but he just never shows it except in times like that, randomly.

Then this afternoon, he is nursing before his nap and I tell him 5 minutes more, he pops off looks at me and says, “times 2 is 10.” and goes back to nursing. Seriously when did the child learn to multiply? I wasn’t actually aware he knew how much 10 was yet, but he apparently knows 5 times 2 is 10.

On amazing Eloise stories, since it seems unfair to leave her out, she looked at her doll the other day and said “hi doll.” I think I may be surrounded by smart children and I’m not sure I like it!

We went to the playground again last week. Desmond had a lot of fun running around and Eloise got to go down the slides and play on the equipment too, which she enjoyed, she is still a bit small though.

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Desmond loves to make mischief, a couple of weeks ago we hear him say “Tah Dah” and look over at him to see the entire sofa now has a nice brown marker finish to it. He was also nice enough to color himself in with marker as well. I didn’t actually realize he still had the marker in this picture, I had thought he had dropped it before he said “tah dah!”

Desmond is not a neat eater and when eating chocolate he is a very not neat eater. I believe he won the battle against the chocolate this time, but I am not positive.

We went to the pick your own farm on Sunday to pick apples. We figured we’d pick about 20 pounds of apples. 45 pounds later we left with all our apples. Both Desmond and Eloise really enjoyed apple picking, Desmond also enjoyed eating an apple or two, while Eloise enjoyed playing with her apple.

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We spent the weekend in Pittsburgh for the reception on Saturday. So on Sunday we went to the Children’s Museum on our way home. Both Desmond and Eloise had a great time and it wore them both out so the trip home was a lot nicer then the trip there. They had a nice water play area, a great toddler/infant play area, a slide, an a temporary Bob the Builder exhibit, it ended last weekend actually. Desmond saw the Bob exhibit and started chanting “Bob, Bob!” as he ran towards it. He also met Bob, which he really liked, which makes me happy for Disney, he wasn’t huge on staying still to get his picture taken with Bob, but he liked seeing and meeting Bob. In fact as we were leaving we saw Bob again as he was being led by his handler to the back stage area. Desmond went up and said hi, and then tried to lead him down the hallway telling Bob “come, come.”

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