Been busy with finishing up Desmond’s K year, doctors appointments at around the 1 year anniversary of his accident, starting Desmond’s first grade year, and other various an assorted things. I am still here and I do plan to start updating again soon. For now how about a cute picture or three?

Erm yeah, I have been busy with all sorts of things so haven’t really remembered to update the blog. I am hoping to do better next month, really. I am going to at least try to get back into doing Wordless Wednesday. Anyways, we are still around, just haven’t had much time to post on the blog due to life being hectic and such. Here is a picture of the small ones from Thanksgiving, I’ll try to get some more recent pictures up soon.

My computer is still not working, and yes I am working (hahaha) on getting it fixed, but it will likely be a bit longer, so still no pictures for awhile. I will leave you with a cute conversation from Sunday with Desmond.

Me: When I grow up I want to be a fire truck!
Desmond: No Mommy, you can’t be a fire truck, you are a people, fire trucks are trucks.
Me: But I want to be a fire truck!
Desmond: You have bones, you can’t be a fire truck, you can be a fire person, a police man, a army man or a Maccabee.
Eloise: I want to be an ice cream maker. I will make pink ice cream for girls.
Me: That is a great plan Eloise.
Dan: I want to an airplane!
Desmond: No Daddy you can’t be an airplane. Airplanes are airplanes, you are a people, you can be an airplane pilot, but not an airplane. You have bones, airplanes don’t have bones.

I love 5 year olds, they are just so much fun.

Sorry about not having posted for a bit. My computer died and is still dead, so I haven’t gotten up any Wordless Wednesdays in the past week or so. Hopefully it will be fixed in another week or so, plus I can use this computer to update though not sure on pictures on this computer. Anyways I am still around, just no pictures right now, hopefully they will be back come May.

We are moving servers so the blog has been moved, please excuse the dust while I get everything back to working. I need to get the calender back and fix my blogroll. Not sure what else needs fixing, but if you notice an issue please let me know.

So I decided I felt like updating the blogs look. It has been ages since I last did it, like shortly after Eloise was born ages, so I felt it was time for a change. Not sure how long I’ll keep the new look, but I like it for now.

I also updated my links/blog roll, if I included you and you don’t want to be there let me know, if I didn’t include you and you want to be included let me know as well, these were the sites I could remember off the top of my head that I visit, I visit others, but let’s be honest after 3 kids if I can still remember what I am talking about at the end of this sentence I am doing good, oh look shiny!

First off some basic blog information/musing. I am attempting to update the blog every Tuesday with a post, mainly a pictures post at this point in time, because typing a lot is a bit beyond what I have time for. I am also trying to post a Wordless Wednesday post every Wednesday. Other then that I am trying to post when I can, but things get busy with three. If you check the site on Wednesday though you should see the new big post from Tuesday and the new Wordless Wednesday, consider anything else a bonus.

I did get around to updating the header, so now Sully is on it. I am still debating if I want to change the whole look of the blog. It has had this look since right before Eloise was born, but I like it still, since it is fairly simple and basic, so I’m still debating which way to go on it, and if I want to spend the time updating the whole look or not.

As for a general family update. Everyone is doing well, Sully is getting lots of attention from his big brother and sister. Desmond is almost done with preschool for the year, I think he enjoyed the year, and should have fun next year. He will be going to summer camp for 4 weeks this summer which he should enjoy.

Desmond is pretty sassy right now, he likes to send you to your room if you don’t agree with him. So I get sent to my room quite often as does Dan. He also has told us, “I don’t want you to say no, you should always tell me yes!” He is always disappointed when his wishes don’t come true. Eloise is starting to have a bit of an attitude too, though nothing compared to her brother. She does have to do whatever Desmond is doing. So if Desmond is doing xyz Eloise always tells us, “me too!” and tries to do it as well. Sully is social smiling, which is nice and he is babbling a little, he still hasn’t rolled completely over, but is quite good on getting up on his side. He is now wearing the same size diapers as Eloise, and we’ll learn how big he is at his 2 month appointment next week.

Everything is going well now, though I am fairly busy with all three of them, we are starting to get a routine down though, so hopefully things will start to calm down some as summer progresses.

Sorry about that, I’ve been sick and unmotivated to post. I have posted some pictures on facebook, but not much here.

Let’s see quick updates. Less then a month till Eloise turns 2, baby boy is due in 6 weeks now, 7 weeks till Desmond turns 4! I’ve had a cold/bronchitis/sinus infection since January 27th or so, hopefully it has started clearing up now. Three plus weeks is just too long to be continuously sick/not feeling great. I missed my nephew’s baby naming because of it, since both Dan and I were sick enough that we thought flying down was a bad plan. We did make my Grandmother’s 80th birthday party because everyone felt decent that weekend. Had fun there and did get to meet my nephew which was nice, so missing his baby naming wasn’t quite as bad.

Both the small ones are doing good, Eloise never got the cold/illness really, Desmond got it but has been better for almost 2 weeks now other then a lingering cough. It has hit me the hardest, I blame the pregnancy.

Other then that not much going on, since I’ve been sick so we haven’t really been doing much obviously. Hope to get out this weekend so we can pick up the couple of things left that we need for baby boy before he arrives, including his car seat.

Oh Desmond is potty trained. I am finally willing to call him 100% day trained, he decided he was ready the last week of December. He is about 90% night trained as well. He has an occasional night time accident, but generally stays dry all night long. It is so nice to only have one in diapers right now, at least for 5 or 6 more weeks. I am hoping Eloise trains this summer, but I am so not doing anything to push it after the whole Desmond taking 18 months to train thing, so we’ll see.

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.

I know I haven’t posted since early August, but I just haven’t really had the time to post, to much going on watching the small ones and going out of town for my brother and sister in laws wedding and such. I will try to post a bit more now that we are slightly less busy, other then Desmond having something to do every day but Fridays and Sundays! Eloise’s schedule at least is a bit quieter with her having Gymnastics on Wednesday and then going to my in-laws on Friday.

Anyways I posted a couple of recent photos, I am probably going to go ahead and skip posting a lot of the summer pictures I have left to post, I will try to post some of the pictures I have from my brother’s wedding here, though they are already up on facebook for those that are my friend on facebook. Desmond made an adorable ring bearer!

Anyways we have enjoyed our busy summer, but it is nice moving into fall and ending up with slightly less busy fall.