One of the activities I did with Desmond was making creatures out of toilet paper tubes. We started off by coloring the tubes, we then glued pompoms on them. I then gave them pipe cleaner arms, I did this step since it involved cutting, which Desmond can’t do yet and knotting the pipe cleaner. We then glued eyes onto the creatures. Desmond really enjoyed this craft, he also enjoyed destroying the creatures as well after we were done. We will probably do this one again when I have some more toilet paper tubes.

(more…)

So a couple of days ago Desmond told me to put Eloise down on his chair. While she was sitting there, he came up and gave her a kiss on the head. He also talked to her a bit and gave her a second kiss on the head, which I didn’t catch on camera. Anyways here are a couple of pictures from then.

(more…)

I got this idea for Desmond from Shannon’s Tot School Blog. Unfortunately it did not work as well for us as it did for her. Desmond liked playing with the markers and putting stickers inside the stencil areas, but he wasn’t interested in tracing or coloring in the stencils. Not a big deal, we’ll try it again in a month or two and see what he thinks then.

(more…)

The night I took the videos of Eloise starting to cruise Dan also took some pictures of her. She is actually getting really good at pulling up now, though she hates falling down, since she tends to bump her head, and she is much less happy about that then her brother was. Anyways here she is cruising.

(more…)

On August 8th we went peach picking. We picked around 24 pounds of peaches, it was just so easy to get a lot of peaches. We have frozen about half of them for later use since it ended up being just a few too many peaches for the toddler to eat *grin*, though he did his best eating 4 of them that first day. Anyways here are the picture I took of us picking peaches. We’ll probably go back to the farm at the end of the month and pick some apples and maybe a few more peaches if they are still in season.

(more…)

On Saturday we went to Maryland’s RenFest. Both Dan and I really enjoy it and both Desmond and Eloise seemed to have fun. I wore Eloise and Dan wore Desmond, we were going to let him down when he wanted to, so he could walk around and explore some. Unfortunately he decided to have a tantrum when we let him down so he went right back up onto Dan’s back.

One of the most amusing parts of the day was when we saw a fruit stand and Dan commented, “Who goes to RenFest to buy fruit?” To which I looked at him and said, “Actually, how about we get Desmond an apple, he has only eaten fries today.” So we did. He was thinking the fruit stand was more like a farmers market, not a stand that was selling individual pieces of fruit.

We had a lot of fun while there, and both short ones got a doll, and Desmond got a sword as well.

(more…)

Dan was playing on the computer the other day, so both Desmond and Eloise decided to be with him and watch him play. The two of them are leaning on the desk which is right next to our big chair.

(more…)

For nap time, we normally all go up to the bedroom and I turn on Backyardigans for Desmond while nursing Eloise down and then I turn it off at the end of the episode and nurse Desmond till he goes to sleep. So in these pictures I am normally between the two of them. Once Desmond is down I normally lay there a bit and then bring Eloise downstairs with me, where she plays and naps the rest of the afternoon till Dan gets home. Desmond normally sleeps till Dan gets home.

(more…)

Here are some pictures of Eloise sitting. She is really good at it now and doesn’t need her arms to keep her up anymore. I noticed in the pictures it looks like she has a huge head. Her head really isn’t that big!

(more…)

The other day I looked up and Eloise was sitting against a cushion. Neither Dan or I had propped her up there, so she had gotten up there all by herself. She has done it once or twice since then as well.

I also found her asleep on the floor a couple of days ago, with her toy around the top of her arm, she had apparently played with it like it was a bracelet.

(more…)