I know I promised these awhile ago, but I’ve been recovering slower from the c-section this time, then I did with Desmond. Anyways here are some pictures from the first few days with Sully. I’ll try to post some more recent ones as well later. Sully is doing great and gaining well, he is a little chub! He is totally out of newborn clothes now, not that they ever fit great to begin with.
Eloise eating her birthday pie at 1:
Eloise eating her birthday pie at 2:
Her definition of messy may have changed a bit in a year!
So being a evil Mom I scheduled Eloise’s 2 year appointment on her birthday, so poor baby had to get a shot on her birthday. I know really mean, I actually didn’t think about it when I was scheduling it. She did great with her shot though, didn’t even notice it, maybe because she was eating a starburst at the time.
Anyways onto her statistics. Eloise is now 20 pounds 9 ounces so she gained slightly over 1 pound in 6 months yay! It puts her at under the 5th percentile for weight, but keeps her on her own curve, so the doctor didn’t say anything about it. She is 32 1/4 inches, so she grew 2 1/8th inches since 18 months. It keeps her in the 12th percentile for height, but still on the same curve so she is fine there too. She still has a 50th percentile head as well, so that stayed the same as well. She still hasn’t tripled her birth weight, but she should by 3 at least.
It was a good appointment and she is doing great. We don’t need to monitor anything, I did forget to ask about allergy testing, but she actually seems to be doing better with milk products again, so I am not too worried about it. If I remember I’ll ask next time we go. She had a great appointment and while tiny is growing and following her own growth curve. Oh and I can finally say she is extended rear-facing at least in her main car seat, since she hit 20 pounds!
At birth 7 pounds 5 ounces and 19 3/4th inches
At 1 month 8 pounds 8 ounces and 20 3/4 inches
At 2 months 10 pounds 4 ounces and 22 1/2 inches
At 4 months 12 pounds 14.5 ounces and 24 inches
At 6 months 15 pounds 4 ounces and 25 1/2 inches
At 9 months 16 pounds 12 ounces and 26 3/4 inches
At 12 months 17 pound 15.5 ounces and 28 inches
At 15 months 18 pounds 4 ounces and 29 3/4 inches
At 18 months 19 pounds 6 ounces and 30 1/8 inches
At 2 years old 20 pounds 9 ounces and 32 1/4 inches
So on Tuesday Dan was home from work because we had Desmond’s IEP for speech services. Since he was home I decided to do Eloise and Desmond’s 2 and 4 year pictures and get one last family picture before newbie arrives. So we went to the picture studio. The family picture took forever, since the two small ones would not cooperate at the same time, and the pictures of the two of them together took even longer, I am so looking forward to trying to get one of all 3 of them in a month. On the plus side I got a ton of very cute individual pictures of my almost 2 and almost 4 year old. So here are a few of the pictures, there were more that came out cute as well, but here are a few of them at least.
First the family picture
Desmond hug, kissing and choking Eloise all at once!
Desmond and Eloise playing chase, they enjoyed playing chase rather then posing!
Them lying heads together, I love this pose, I also love Eloise’s expression which appears to be, “I will kill you if you keep making me do this!”
Eloise sitting on Desmond, one of the best group pictures, even if Eloise isn’t smiling.
Eloise sitting on Desmond, one of the outtakes.
Here are a few of the solo Desmond pictures. I really like these, they came out great.
I love this one best of him I think
And here are Eloise’s solo pictures. I love this first one, it is showing off her stubbornness. I will sit, but you can’t make me look happy!
This one is just cute
Eloise lying down, I like this one she got tired I guess, but it made a cute picture.
Eloise sitting
So on the 17th we had a really nice day outside, so I let the small ones out in the backyard to play. Unfortunately even though it was in the 60s, there was still ice on the ground. Anyways here are the short ones playing in the backyard enjoying the nice warm weather.
Here are some pictures of Desmond, Eloise, my Father in Law and Dan in our backyard playing in the snow that we got at the end of January. We got about 9 inches of snow, which was a nice snow storm, and made me happy. I like a good snow fall during the winter, they are nice to have three or four times a winter.
Here is Desmond in the snow
Here is Eloise in the snow
Here are Dan, Des, Eloise and K-line heading inside
Here is Desmond making a snowball
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Yes I know it has been over a month again since I last updated. I just keep not getting around to it. Enjoy the snow pictures though.
We had a great time at my parents for Thanksgiving, Eloise and Desmond enjoyed playing with Nonnie and Pom, and it was nice being there with just the 6 of us for the first few days before everyone arrived Wednesday night. Eloise loved hanging out with her Pom, and Desmond had fun running around and baking Pom a birthday cake with Nonnie.
On the way down we actually drove straight down, which wasn’t too bad, but Eloise was done about 2 hours before we arrived and she made sure we were well aware of that fact. On the way back we stopped at a hotel room, as Desmond likes to say. He was a bit disappointed that we didn’t go to the Parking Lot (Sesame Place) the following day, since we stayed in a hotel room! He did however break out in hives, shortly before we arrived at the hotel room, and he still has them randomly breaking out now 2 1/2 weeks later. No clue what is causing it, don’t think it is environmental or food related, since they just randomly appear, but who knows, it is possibly a virus, I just wish it would finish running its course and go away.
I am now 25 weeks pregnant and have an appointment next week. It is nice to have hit the viability point in this pregnancy. Yes I won’t want newbie born right now, since that would be super early and cause major complications for him. It is nice knowing that if he was born he has a chance of survival though! He is happily kicking away, and causing me lots of heartburn at the moment. I will be taking the glucose test for Gestational Diabetes after my next appointment next week and before the appointment I will have after that. I am not too worried about it though, hoping I pass so I don’t have to do the 3 hour test again though.
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my new niece or nephew within the next week. I can’t wait to learn if my sister has a little boy or girl! She was due on Sunday, so baby should arrive soon.
In other news Desmond is enjoying preschool, though he isn’t thrilled about getting up to be there at 7am. He has been evaluated for speech issues through the public school system and we are waiting on a call back to have the next set of evaluations. He has a pretty bad articulation issue at this point in time, so I am sure he will qualify for services. He passed the hearing test with flying colors though, so we know he hears us, even when he is pretending not to though! I figure he’ll probably be evaluated after the new year and have an IEP for speech by mid-January.
Both Desmond and Eloise are enjoying their gymnastics classes as well, and Desmond moved up a level in swimming. We also moved his class time, because 5:10pm just wasn’t working for us, since Dan was taking him and if his train was even 5 minutes late, Desmond tended to end up missing half his half hour lesson. So now he has lessons at 7pm, which is a much easier time for us to get him there.
Nothing much else going on, we enjoyed Hanukkah, and Desmond keeps trying to get us to celebrate just one more night so he can get another present! We are mostly ready for Christmas as well, just need to pick up 2 things for Dan and we’re done. The tree is up, and I’ll try to get up pictures of the small ones putting up ornaments later.
We are busy, but it is mostly routine things at this point in time. Everyone is having lots of fun and we are enjoying the slightly less busy winter months. I am going to try to remember to post to the blog more then once a month, but not promises at the moment. We’ll see what happens.
Just a comparison of how much each of them has grown in one year.
Here is Desmond last December in the snow:
And here he is today:
And here is Eloise last December in the snow:
And here she is today:
It snowed today! I actually kept Desmond out of preschool since it was predicted to start before he got out and I didn’t want to drive in it. It started around 11am here, so I was glad I decided that. We got maybe an inch and a half total, but I still didn’t want to be out driving in it, people don’t know how to drive in the snow, and honestly I don’t have much practice at it either, so I’d rather just stay off the road.
I did dress up the two small terrors to take them out in the snow. It took about 40 minutes to get them all dressed in their snowsuits and hats, I couldn’t find mittens, I know we haven’t some but they were no where to be seen so we went without. We were out for maybe 10 minutes before Eloise decided she was done, and I was able to get them back in, after about 15 minutes, since Desmond wanted to stay out longer when Eloise was done, so I told him 2 more minutes. He got to throw 2 snowballs at me so he was happy.
Here are a couple of pictures of them in the snow.
She was not happy falling and face planting in the snow!
I know I haven’t updated in the past month or so. It has been pretty busy and I apparently just haven’t been in the mood. Anyways as for updates, my big ultrasound for newbie is on Thursday I’ll be 20 weeks 1 day then, it is weird to think I am halfway through this pregnancy already, I am feeling newbie kicking fairly often these days which is nice. Dan and I still haven’t decided if we are going to find out gender or not. We have about 7 boy’s names on our top list and about 6 girl’s names. We still aren’t really certain on any of the boy’s name but we do still have 20 weeks. I’ll let everyone know Thursday or Friday if we decided to find out gender. Knowing me we probably will, just because 20 more weeks is a long time to wait, and I’m impatient like that, but who knows maybe I will hold out.
Desmond and Eloise are doing great. Eloise is off milk again, she was having issues on it and though she is upset because she likes cheese, she is doing much better when she doesn’t have any. It does make meal planning a bit of a pain since we have a lot of things with cheese in them here. So she tends to get alternative dinners 2 to 3 times a week. Desmond is enjoying preschool, and has made some friends which is good. They are both having fun together and have recently really started playing together which is neat. They really like to sword fight with straws and glow sticks, which is really cute.
Eloise and I had fun in Atlanta for Laura’s baby shower. We had fun with everyone there, so my Mom, Laura, Nancy, Clare, Sandra, and Rona. We also enjoyed our Monday out with my Mom and Nancy before we headed to the airport that evening. Desmond had fun at home with Dan and my in-laws on Monday. We are looking forward to see everyone again in a few weeks at Thanksgiving.
Other then that it has been fairly quiet here. We celebrated Devali on Friday at my in-law’s and Desmond enjoyed the sparklers. Eloise enjoyed her glow stick. Other then that it has been fairly quiet here which is nice, it was nice to have a down weekend after a fairly busy summer and early fall.
