Here is Desmond playing and showing off his new kitchen from IKEA. It is great it keeps him entertained for 15 to 30 minutes at a time and he has used it every day since we got it. He loves his kitchen. He has actually taken to taking out the sink, dumping all the kitchen items through and putting it back in when we tell him it is time to clean up his kitchen. I figure it works well enough for now, and it is always amusing to see.

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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!

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Another activity Desmond and I did last week was making faces. I found foam circles and we added eyes, bells and pompoms to make faces. My face looked far more face like then his, but then again I am 31 and he is 2, so if he wants his face to have 6 eyes and pompoms all over rather then in a mouth shape, that is great! Here he is making his face.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Here are a few pictures from last week of Desmond playing with the beans again. He hasn’t wanted to play with them at all this week, which is kind of odd considering how much fun he had last week with them.

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.

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So Desmond loves to carry things around in buckets and baskets and whatever else he can find to carry them in. So we have been keeping an eye out for a hard sided lunchbox for him for awhile. We figured with back to school stuff we should be able to find one. It seems like everywhere only sell the soft sided ones these days though so we didn’t find one at either Target or the grocery store.

We did go to Joanne’s though since I needed to get him some craft supplies, and we found the perfect case for him. The only issue it was pure white, waiting to be decorated. So our project the next morning, the morning after the day in the life post actually, was to decorate it.

I helped him a bit, and put his name in stickers on it, so that he would know it was his. He decided where he wanted everything to go though and put most of the stickers on all by himself. He had a lot of fun doing this project and loves his box.

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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.

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