It has been a busy few weeks. I just haven’t had much time to post. I have a bunch more Disney picture to put up and I still have some more to get.

Eloise is doing great she has 6 teeth, no clue when the last two came in, but somewhere around Disney most likely. She is cruising and standing on her own for a few seconds now, I figure she’ll be walking soon, probably by January, but it could be earlier or later.

Desmond is giving up his naps, which is a bit of a pain, since it would be nice to have those couple of hours in the afternoon, it is nice though since on days he doesn’t nap he goes to bed around 8pm. He is just about ready to potty train we think. We’re going to attempt to work on it this weekend and see how it goes.

We all had a great Thanksgiving with my family, we had lots of fun and I have some pictures to post from that eventually as well. It was a long drive, and Eloise wasn’t overly pleased, but it worked out. It was great seeing Mommom on the way down and back as well, since her house is a great stopping point for us and lets Desmond run around a bunch and Eloise move around as well.

We are in the middle of getting ready for Hanukkah and Christmas, we’re hosting Christmas at our house this year, we have a fake tree from Target and a bunch of ornaments, hopefully it will look nice. We’re also mostly done buying presents for the two small ones, I need to get one or two more things I think, but they are basically done. We still need to buy gifts for me and Dan though, we think we know what we want that is in our price range though so that is good.

I’ll post some Disney pictures in a few minutes and I’ll try to edit the Thanksgiving and other pictures I have to post soon as well. It looks like we might get some snow on Saturday, which could be fun too.

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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So Sunday we were at my in-laws, we were in the family room and Eloise was crawling around. I wasn’t paying that much attention. I then hear her Grandfather say something to her, but he was upstairs, I look towards the stairs and she is up the stairs as well. Apparently Eloise decided to see what was going on upstairs and climbed up the stairs to go see, without any of us watching her!

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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Here is a bunch of pictures of Eloise eating various different solid foods. I figured it was easiest to put them all in one post rather then making 3 separate posts.

First off here she is at my in-laws eating stirfry.

Here she is eating pancakes when we did breakfast as dinner.

And finally here she is eating avocado.

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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Eloise loves to stand, she loves to pull up into a stand and just stay there, she will eventually whine because she isn’t sure how to get down, but then once down she will climb right back up into a stand. I was really hoping for a slower mover this time, it was a foolish wish I guess *grin*.

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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