Just a cute picture of Eloise

So a couple of days ago Desmond wanted to play with his crayons. So I pulled them out and Eloise wanted to play too. I gave her some paper and crayons and let her draw some. She wasn’t exactly sure about it, but she had fun drawing and playing with the crayons.

So I took Desmond to his soccer class on Monday. It was a bit yuck out, but not raining so we went. We got there a bit late, after they had finished the warm ups which involve a bunch of running and such. Desmond participated for about 15 minutes, he did the kick the ball into the goal activity for awhile and ran around a bit, which wasn’t unexpected. Then he was done. He just sat down and didn’t want to do anything else. We watched the next activity for about 10 minutes and then we headed over to the playground where he had a ton of fun running and playing in the wet. We probably spent 30 minutes there. I don’t think we’re signing him up for soccer come fall, both based on his current reaction to his class and because he is starting preschool then and has gymnastics and swimming as well which will be more then enough activities for him we think. We may try again next spring if he is interested, but we’ll see then.

Anyways here he is playing soccer.

And here is Eloise. She had a lot of fun running and kicking the ball while Desmond was sitting.

Desmond July 2008

Desmond August 2009:

Desmond May 2010:

Eloise August 2009:

Eloise May 2010:

So a couple of weekends ago it was a gorgeous and hot Sunday. We were going to visit my in-laws, like we do almost every weekend, so we called them and told them to set up the wading pool if they could find it. They had apparently had the same idea, but couldn’t find it. When Dan called though they checked again and found it. So when we got to their house the pool was all set up and ready to go. Both of the kids had a ton of fun playing in the pool outside. Desmond also enjoyed running around the yard full tilt. Feel free to admire Eloise’s bathsuit, we found it at Target and figured it was perfect for her. We left it at my in-laws since we visit them often and having a bathing suit at their house for her makes life easy in the summer.

I love these two pictures of Desmond

All done and relaxing in the chair

So we go to the playground a lot and I tend to take pictures about 1 out 2 visits, so I have a lot of playground pictures. These pictures are from our visit on May 1st. We had gone the day before and I had gotten a picture of Desmond and Eloise walking holding hands with my small camera, but I wanted a better picture so I brought the big camera and they held hands and walked again for me. I also got some other pictures of the two of them playing at the playground since I had the camera with me anyways.

I can so see her as a teenager in this picture. Like seriously Mom do you have to take another picture of me?

There is an inflatables place near Desmond’s Gymnastics and future Preschool. I found out about it from my yahoo parenting group. They did a play date there and Desmond and I went. He had a ton of fun. So the Wednesday after I got back from Atlanta I took him and Eloise again since it was raining and icky out. Desmond had a ball for the 2 hour open play period, and Eloise had fun too. There was only one other little girl there so Desmond had the run of the place and loved it. He had a ton of fun, I plan on taking him back again soon, since it is a reasonable price for two hours of play and he gets to expend a ton of energy running, bouncing, climbing and sliding.

So a couple of weeks ago, noticing a theme in the past three posts?, I look up next to me from the computer and see Eloise sitting on the chair playing. So I snapped a few pictures of the cutey!

This finishes my backlog of April pictures now too! I have edited and uploaded all my May pictures through yesterday too, so there are a bunch more posts to come with a lot more pictures.

So I’ve mentioned that Desmond got a trampoline for his birthday, that he loves. I am not sure I ever mentioned what Eloise got though. She got a slide. It is an indoor foldable plastic slide. That Desmond loves too! In fact we often find him perched on the top watching the tv or going down it. Eloise on the other hand hasn’t been quite as sure about it. She will sometimes climb it, and occasionally go down it with Mommy or Daddy’s help. In general though she tends to ignore it. Or at least she did. On Sunday a couple of weeks ago, Desmond was at his grandparent’s house and Dan and I were cleaning. Eloise was helping! While helping she noticed the slide and decided to explore it. She quite enjoyed her time playing on it, though she wasn’t completely thrilled when she went down all alone on it. So she mainly she climbed up the ladder and hung up on the top of it.

Eloise got a tutu from Costco a few weeks ago. She loves it. She saw them in the store and was pointing, “mine mine mine”. So I got her one. They didn’t have any smaller then sized 2T but it works for her anyways. We did only buy her one though. She absolutely adores it and has us put it on over whatever she is wearing.

So here she is in her tutu!