Snow Angels

Here is a quick picture review of 2011, 1 picture a month, and it was hard to narrow it down to just one per month.

January

February

March (okay 2 for March)

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

So Desmond is learning about a lot of different things through preschool and life. And he wants to be a lot of things. So I always get asked in the car how old he has to be to be xyz. It is fun trying to figure out an age he can be to be some of these things, but here is a list of the age you have to be to do or be the following.

Drive: 16
Be an Army Man: 18
Be a Soldier (you know the ones that fight the Maccabees not a current day one): 18
Be a Maccabee (yes we have a bit of a obsession going with the Maccabees right now, it is all the rage in his preschool class): 18
Be a Knight in Shining Armor: 21
Be a Pirate: 21
Be a Ghost Buster: At least 25 since you really need a PHD to be a Ghost Buster

In other news Desmond’s birthday list includes him wanting the following costumes: A Knight, A Maccabee, A Ghost Buster, A Pirate, a Soldier, and an Army Man.

So the past few weeks we have been having rather fun weather, one day it will be 60, the next day we will get a snow shower. No real snow mind you, but just a sprinkling of snow.

Here are Desmond, Eloise and Sully enjoying the warm Saturday day in the high 50s.

And here they are on Monday in the snow!

I think this picture from Desmond sums up my feelings on December and January’s weather so far:

Trimming the tree

Brothers

Jumping on the bed.

So the week before Thanksgiving both Eloise and Desmond had Thanksgiving celebrations at preschool. Their classes made food, learned about Thanksgiving and did other small activities to get ready. Desmond’s celebration was on a Wednesday and Eloise’s was on a Thursday. Families were invited, but siblings were not. For Desmond’s I dropped Eloise and Sully off at the free babysitting, and I went along with my in-laws. It was cute and everyone had a good time, there were a lot of parents and relatives there.

For Eloise’s I dropped Sully off at the free babysitting, and then went. There were far fewer people, which made sense with a class of 12 vs 20. The 2s class was adorable though, and they had fun as well. The best part of the day however, was that Eloise got to have lunch in Desmond’s classroom. She loved it. She was the only child in the 2s class that stayed for lunch, and none of the children in the 3s class stayed that day either (they had their Thanksgiving Feast at the same time). Since I had to be back in an hour to pick up Desmond anyways, and Sully needed a nap, I left Eloise for lunch so they had to find somewhere to put her, her teacher had a funeral to attend. She loved going into the 4 year old class and being with Desmond and all the big kids. All the 4s (at least the girls) loved having her there as well. She keeps on asking to go back, I had to tell her that is was a one time thing. Here are a few pictures I took from both days.

Desmond listening to the book his teachers read

Desmond looking down in disgust at the food his class made

Eloise in her Thanksgiving hat

Apple Picking