Here is a video from Labor day with Eloise walking between Dahdi (Dan’s Mom) and Dan. She is pretty good at it, she just needs hands to help her balance. That fact is kind of scary since I am so not ready for her to walk on her own yet!
I took a couple of videos of the small ones yesterday afternoon. There were also a few videos from earlier this week and last week on the video camera, so Dan downloaded and converted all the videos for me last night. This morning I uploaded them to youtube so that I could post them here at nap time. Since it is now nap time, at least for the boy child, I have a few moments and I can post the videos. First off we’ll start with the ones from a few days ago.
Here is Desmond playing with his kitchen and trying to break his toy egg, it actually is two pieces velcroed together so it does come apart, but he isn’t great at getting it apart yet.
Next is Eloise standing up all by her self holding onto the toy area.
And last is Desmond giving Eloise a hug!
We went to the big playground twice this weekend, once on Sunday and once on Monday. On Sunday we also went to the pool, since the outdoor pool closed on Monday and we’re back inside now. We didn’t go on Monday because it was too cold to swim. I brought my camera along on both playground days and got a bunch of pictures of Desmond playing. Dan also got a few of Eloise. So here is Desmond at the playground on Sunday.
So earlier today I was going to put Eloise on my back so she could nap. However Desmond saw the carrier and insisted that he needed to be carried in it. Rather then deal with a tantrum and other assorted two year old behaviors, I decided to wear him on my back. I still needed to wear Eloise though since she still needed her nap and wasn’t going down nursing or any other way. So since I had a Mei Tai and Dan’s Calyx in the living room I decided to put her on my front. It was actually surprisingly comfortable to carry both of them and the 45 pounds of them was well distributed and didn’t bother me at all. Desmond eventually decided to go down after about an hour, but I have to say it was remarkably easier then I was expecting to carry them both and it worked well, Eloise got her nap and Desmond got his snuggle time on my back and didn’t feel left out.
I took a few pictures, but since I had to do them in the bathroom so I could get our reflection in the mirror, they didn’t turn out well in color, they work okay in black and white though so I’ll post them. I was just wearing a tank top since I figured two on me was going to be a bit toasty and I was right.
Overall, it was an experiment that worked out and I’ll do again, if I need to carry Eloise for her nap and Desmond wants up as well. I am really glad we had decent carriers I could do this with.
So I was playing around with the camera trying things out so I don’t always use the point and click mode. I was working a bit with aperture and took a bunch of different pictures, that didn’t turn out so great because of how dark it was in the house. I did get a few decent ones of Eloise though so here they are. You can actually see her smiling in some of these, which I so rarely can catch on camera.
Here are the rest of the basement pictures from the set I have just been posting. They don’t fit in any of the other categories so they get their own random post.
First off here is Desmond using his banana as a phone!
Next we have Eloise crawling
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Eloise is getting pretty good at standing holding onto things. She will occasionally think she can stand without holding on, which she isn’t quite up to yet, but she is quite good at holding herself up and holding onto something. These are pictures of her holding onto the new table and eating it.
What is she doing? Oh I can do that too!
Oh hi Daddy I like this table, it is quite tasty!
Here are a couple of pictures of Eloise playing with her feet while we were downstairs in the basement playroom. She found them quite entertaining.
Here are some pictures of Eloise making all sorts of faces in the now clean and usable basement playroom. She is showing off her new teeth!
