So Desmond is in the middle of a 6 week soccer class. The first week of class he went, the second and third week were canceled and added to the end of the session because of rain. The fourth week, 2nd class he went to with Dan, because Eloise and I were out of town. The fifth week, 3rd class wasn’t canceled but we didn’t go to because it was raining and both he and Eloise were a bit off. So he has 3 classes to go, though he will be missing one of those because we’ll be in Atlanta for it.

He had fun for the first 15/20 minutes of the first class he went to, and then he was done. The second class according to Dan he was good for 30 minutes or so and then he was done, and curled up in his lap not willing to do anything more. We’ll see how he does on Monday for his next class. I figure if he is done after 30 minutes or so I’ll just take him to the playground to play. If it isn’t called off for rain, last check showed thunderstorms expected on Monday, but that can always change.

I am not sure if we are going to put him in the class in the fall again or not. Since he will have just started preschool we might hold off. We’ll see how he feels closer to the fall though.

Anyways here he is on his first day of soccer playing. He has long green socks and shin guards on under his pants, and those are real soccer shoes he is wearing. I need to get some pictures of him playing in shorts too!

and here is Eloise enjoying soccer too!

After the zoo we went to the playground up by us. We didn’t end up staying long because the weather had gotten a lot colder and we didn’t bring jackets or anything. Both Eloise and Desmond had fun running around for the 20 or so minutes we were there though.

I had fortunately packed a pair of sweatpants for Desmond so he didn’t have to go out in his shorts.

Dan had stolen my sweatshirt here. Because he was cold, this was about the time we decided to head out.

We finally got to the zoo in April. We went on April 17th after Dan’s doctor’s appointment. We had a lot of fun. Both the kids enjoyed seeing the animals. That being said it was extremely busy which was kind of weird for a random Saturday in April. Desmond requested visiting Monkeys and Tigers and Eloise just liked looking at all the animals. We didn’t see the pandas because we weren’t willing to deal with the crowds. We had a lot of fun though and it was a good day. We also figured out the best place to drive to to catch the metro to the zoo, which is nice.

Here are Eloise, Desmond and Dan watching the lions. All three lions were out, which was impressive, normally only one of the lions is out when we visit. Of course I only brought the small point and shoot camera because we never get great pictures at the zoo so why bring the big camera, oh well!

When we got home from my Aunt’s Eloise got her basket and she quickly discovered all the chocolate! The girl is a chocolateholic! She loves her chocolate.

Mommy I’m all out of chocolate .

Here are the pictures of Desmond and Eloise, though mainly Desmond celebrating their birthdays at Easter.

First Desmond’s cake. There were two little girls about his age next to him and one of them blew out the candles before he got to. It was cute. It then took all three of them to blow out the newly relit candles.

Here is Eloise with her vegan cupcake, there is a giraffe on the top of it. Desmond had toodles (from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) on his cupcakes, but there was so much food there including the huge cake that he didn’t eat any of his cupcakes till the next day at home.

Desmond opening his presents

And Eloise opening hers. She loves that bunny rabbit it is her car toy and she hugs it and plays with it whenever we get in the car.

So we celebrated Desmond and Eloise’s birthdays on Easter. It was about 3 weeks late for Eloise’s birthday and 1 day early for Desmond’s birthday. Since my parents were out of the country for Eloise’s birthday it made a good day to do it. We celebrated at my Aunt Mary’s house, where we also celebrated Desmond’s first birthday. The birthday part was just a small part of the day, since a lot of my Aunt’s relatives from the other side were there too. Desmond and Eloise both had fun and got to play with Nonnie, Pom, MomMom, Dahdi, Dahda, Uncle Noah, Aunt Clare, plus my Aunt and cousins and various other people that were there. It was a good day and we all had fun.

Here is Desmond giving MomMom a hug.

Here is Eloise playing with Easter Eggs that Desmond found.

Here is Desmond Easter Egg hunting. The candy got thrown away that evening because he poured a glass of water in the bucket if I remember correctly. And yes my child went Easter Egg hunting with a Halloween Bucket.

He would open the eggs and then dump the candy from them in his basket and then dump the eggs on the ground because they weren’t useful anymore, with no candy in them.

Here is Eloise with Nonnie

And here she is with Pom

Here is Desmond giving Eloise a hug

and a kiss

And one last Eloise picture

I really don’t think anything else needs to be said, she is a little diva, even in hairbows, a diaper and one baby leg.

Here are a bunch of pictures of the two of them at the playground from April. They are not all from the same visit, but they both love the playground.

holding hands

hanging around

sitting on the bench

Desmond can now climb the rock wall at the playground by himself, which is really quite impressive.

I also have some playground videos to put up, but I’ll get to that later, I’m just trying to get semi caught up with pictures at the moment.

We’ve been busy over here. 2 weekends ago Eloise and I went down to Georgia for my sister Nancy’s Law School graduation. Congrats again Nancy. We both had fun and it was nice spending time with just Eloise. She is a little character and a lot different from her brother, but since he is bigger and louder she tends to get a bit overlooked at home, poor girl. She is a shoe diva though and got Nonnie to buy her 3 new pair of shoes, including some sparkly pink ones.

Desmond also started swimming lessons a few weeks ago. It was kind of a shock to us, we had signed him up, but then never heard anything about them so we assumed the form was lost. He is having a blast and is getting more comfortable floating on his back. He loves swimming on his tummy and putting his face in and out of the water as he goes forward. He is doing great in the class, his first one without a parent right there with him. I have no pictures of him swimming because our pool doesn’t allow pictures. I’ll have some swimming pictures soon enough though since we are going down to Georgia in under 2 weeks now and will swim a bunch when there I am sure.

Desmond is also taking soccer lessons. So far he’s had 2, well 3, since they didn’t cancel yesterdays even with the rain. He has also had 2 canceled classes because of the rain. He likes it, but the class is a bit too long for him. Hopefully it won’t be raining next week so we can go and he can run around and kick the ball. I do have some pictures from his first class which I will post in a bit.

The summer is looking to be even busier then the spring is. Desmond has camp 4 weeks this summer to prepare him for preschool in the fall. My brother is getting married in Georgia in August, so we’ll be heading down for that obviously. Desmond is going to be the ring bearer and he will be very cute I am sure. We’re also heading to Georgia for a week and a half or so, in two Saturdays for Desmond and two Sundays for me and Eloise. We may go back to Georgia once more before the wedding as well, depends on how my parents and our schedules line up.

I have a bunch of pictures to still get up, plus more from recently to post. So I’ll try to post some in a few minutes and edit the new ones soon.

So Desmond’s big birthday present this year was a trampoline. It is an indoor trampoline and we have it set up in the living room for him and Eloise. He absolutely adores the trampoline. It is wonderful, I am not sure why we didn’t think of it before for him. He can bounce out a ton of energy. If he is bouncing elsewhere we can redirect him to the trampoline. He is also really good with the rule of only one person on the trampoline at a time, so if Eloise gets on he stops jumping and gets off. It was seriously our best buy for him and it will last for a long time since we got an adult trampoline that even Dan can use.

Anyways here are some pictures of him and Eloise on it right after we put it together for him birthday. In the first few you can see the hold bar on it. You can also see why we took of the bar almost immediately.