So we are doing Christmas at our house this year. We normally do it at my in-laws, but with the two kids it is easier if my in-laws come here rather then us go over there. This means we need a tree. We had a fake tree when we lived in Atlanta, but I didn’t pack it when we moved up, since I am not a huge Christmas person, being Jewish and all, and we would celebrating at my in-laws anyways. So we haven’t had a tree since we moved up, actually I am pretty sure we haven’t had a tree since either 1999 or 2000, I am almost positive we didn’t put up the one we had in 2001.

So a few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving actually we picked up a fake tree from Target. We decided fake was safer with the two small ones, and less expensive in the long run. It was a fairly inexpensive tree, and it was on sale. We also picked up some ornaments. We had some left from when we last did a tree, but I couldn’t remember how many or if they were child safe, so we’ve been picking up child safe ornaments for our tree. We also picked up 3 strands of different color lights.

With the snow this weekend and it being less then a week to Christmas we decided to set up the tree today.

First we took it out of the box. Desmond decided the box was the best toy ever!

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Eloise is a peanut. She had her 9 month appointment today on her 9 month birthday. She is 16 pounds and 12 ounces which puts her in the 18th percentile for weight. She was 26 3/4 inches tall which puts her in the 25th percentile. Her head is right around the 75th percentile though. She is doing great developmentally and stood without support for close to a minute last night, but still no picture, sigh. Anyways she still hasn’t beaten Desmond’s weight at 4 months, but she is 1/4th of an inch taller! I have a feeling she isn’t going to hit 20 pounds by 1.

She did gain 1 1/2 pounds and 1 1/4 inches in the past 3 months which isn’t bad.

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

Just for comparison here are Desmond’s stats at the same ages. She is just about a pound lighter then he was at four months and 1/4th an inch taller.

At one months Desmond was 11 pounds and 23 inches
At two months Desmond was 14 pounds and 24 1/2 inches
At four months Desmond was 17 pounds 13 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At six months Desmond was 19 pounds 13 ounces and 27 inches
At nine months Desmond was 22 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches

Last night Eloise stood without support for 10 seconds. I didn’t have time to get a picture though since the camera didn’t have a card in it. Hopefully I will get one soon.

Today was the first snow of the year so we bundled up Desmond and Eloise and took them out in it to get some pictures. Desmond apparently still mostly fits in his old snow suit so we put him in it. Eloise went into the infant snowsuit we bought when I was pregnant with Desmond, not realized he would outgrow it before fall, since it is a 9 month snowsuit. Oh well, at least Eloise wore it! Anyways we just went to the backyard to get the pictures, both of them seemed to enjoy the snow, though Desmond was done with in 15 minutes or so, probably because we couldn’t find his gloves.

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So while we were out in the snow Desmond picked up some snow and Dan showed him he could throw it. So he did, at Eloise. Here is Desmond and Eloise and the snowball!

What you doing Desmond?

The release

Mommy, Desmond threw some of this cold wet white stuff at me!

Here are a bunch more pictures from Disney World. I still have a bunch more to get, but this is the set off my small camera.

Here is Desmond enjoying the splash pad at Pop Century Resort

Here is Eloise at the Splash Pad as well

Here are Eloise, Desmond and Dan at the Mr. Potato Head sculpture at Pop Century

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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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