Three!

In honor of Eloise turning 3 next Wednesday, her she is newly born with Dan.

So last night Eloise was sitting at the table talking and she said: “I’m going to be 3 on my birthday, and Desmond will be 5 and Sully Bear will be 1.” She then turned and pointed to me, “And you will be old!”

To which my only thought was, thanks kid. She then continued on, “And Daddy will be 42.”

To which I responded, “No Daddy will be 35 on his birthday.”

“Okay, Daddy will be 45.”

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

For Christmas we got Eloise a bunch of bracelets and necklaces since she has been asking for them. However we didn’t get her anywhere to put them, so they along with the necklaces she has been making from beads keep getting stored in her sleeping bag, which isn’t the best place to store them. So when I was out shopping with a friend last week, she mentioned she wanted to get a jewelry box for her daughter (her twins and Eloise are in preschool together), and I decided that was a wonderful idea. I also picked Eloise up some more jewelry because I found some cute heart stuff in the valentine section of Target.

We looked around Target and didn’t see anything that would really work, but since we were going to stop at Michaels it wasn’t a major deal. Once we got to Michaels we looked around, the employee suggested some cute boxes, but they were a bit more then either of us were willing to spend on a 3 year old for a jewelry box. We headed over to the kid craft section and found some adorable plastic heart boxes, that were inexpensive and would work perfectly. So we each picked one up. We also found some cute wooden ones, that would have to be painted and such to be used, and decided that would end up a Mommy craft rather then a kid craft, so the plastic hearts we had found first were a much better choice.

Anyways after a great morning out, we both headed back to pick up our small people from preschool. After picking up the small ones we both headed home to our respective houses. Once we got home, Eloise noticed her dress up pink/purple dress with black lace hanging up in the kitchen and decided she wanted to wear it. Seeing no reason not to let her, she changed from her school clothes into it. I then gave her her new jewelry box and jewelry and found her other jewelry at the bottom of her sleeping bag and put it in the box as well.

I then took a few gorgeous pictures of her playing with it. So here she is all dressed up in her dress and jewelry looking through her jewelry box.

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

Jumping on the bed.