I still have some pictures to post. My Grandfather died the Tuesday after Memorial day and we went down to Atlanta for the funeral. I have a post to do for him, with pictures of him and Desmond and Eloise. I also have some pictures of Desmond and Eloise from Atlanta, that are cute, including one of Desmond kissing Eloise.

As for other updates, everything is going well at the moment in our lives, we have a couple of free weekends, which is nice. We’re going back to Atlanta on July 5th, and going down to the lake which should be great. We saw Laura and Miles and Noah and Clare on Saturday at Noah and Clare’s place. Laura and Miles had just gotten back from a cruise that left out of the port of Baltimore. It was nice to see everyone and Eloise went into a pool for the first time, though she didn’t get much more then her legs wet, because the water was freezing.

Desmond is potty training, he refuses to wear diapers anymore, so it is either potty train him or do a lot of consistent cleaning of accidents, so potty training it is. He is actually doing fairly well at it. Yesterday he only had one accident where he didn’t make it to the potty. Today he’s only had one accident so far, so hopefully we can keep it to the one.

Eloise is rolling over quite well and working on crawling. She can move if she wants to, it is just a lot of work for her. I was kind of hoping she would be slightly less mobile then Desmond, not more. Then again, everything is pretty baby proofed so if she wants to start army crawling it isn’t a huge deal either. She is growing well, and is in mainly 3-6 month sized clothing, which are still a bit big, but a lot of her 0-3 stuff is to small, so too big it is. It is really hard to believe she will be 3 months on Sunday, she is really active and awake a lot now. She still loves to be held and doesn’t like to be put down, but she will spend 10 to 15 minutes entertaining herself in her co-sleeper or on the floor (when it is safe to put her there), which is nice.

That is really all that is going on right now, it is pretty quiet here which is nice.

So the pick your own farm we visit, opened on Memorial day so we went strawberry picking. Desmond loves strawberry picking, we went a couple of times last year. This was our first visit this year, since they had just opened. So here are a bunch of pictures of Desmond picking and eating strawberries. We did learn from last year at least and didn’t put him in a white shirt this time!

Here he is peeling an orange, feeding it to daddy and eating oranges with Mommy.

Here are a bunch of Desmond eating oranges.

For mother’s day we went to the lake across the street, I wanted to get some pictures of Desmond and Eloise, preferably together. I failed in the together part, but I got a bunch of pictures of each of them individually. Desmond’s are mainly him eating and peeing oranges, he quite enjoyed that. Eloise’s are mainly her just looking cute, she is good at that. There are a bunch of pictures so I’ll post then in a couple of separate posts. Here are some that are not really categorized to start with.

On May 2nd we drove down to Richmond for a ceremony for my Grandfather, everyone got to see the bench my Grandmother had chosen and they put his ashes in his spot in the bench. Unfortunately it decided to rain right as we started, and with Desmond there too, we didn’t get to hear or see much of the ceremony. It was nice though. After that we went back to Mommom’s house and everyone spent some time together. The next morning before we left to drive home, we stopped by Mommom’s again and got some pictures of Eloise and Desmond with Mommom, so here they are.

While we were in Atlanta we met up with someone from my April 2007 Puddle Jumper message board. We went to the Jump Zone, which is a big inflatables place, where the children could play and run around. Desmond loved it, he had a ton of fun climbing and jumping and sliding down. I need to take him to the one by us, though I have to do it when I have someone to watch Eloise, because I did have to follow him around and that isn’t possible with her strapped on me.

A group picture of our get together

Here are a couple of random pictures from Atlanta, the ones of Desmond are him playing at the small table my Mom got him and the ones of Eloise are her happy in the swing.

Since Andrea wants more pictures. I’m putting up the next set from Atlanta. These were taken at the playground at the lake house. There are some of Desmond, some of Eloise, some of Desmond and Eloise, and some of Desmond with my Mom, Eloise with my Mom, and Eloise with me.

If you leave your 2 year old in his bedroom with the door closed while you go to deal with the 2 month old, make sure you get back as soon as he starts screaming and crying. Otherwise the wall and door maybe finger painted with poop when you get there.