Since with the swim pictures at my in-laws I realized I have a picture now of Desmond in the same place, in the same outfit actually, though I just realized the pictures I put up the other pair of swim trunks, but they are the same size and he wore both last year and this, at 14 months and at 27 months. So here is a look at Desmond and how he has changed in a year!
July 08
August 09
This is mainly a picture of dump of Desmond and Eloise swimming at my in-laws at the start of August. They have a small wading pool for them that Desmond likes and Eloise seems to enjoy as well. Since I can’t take pictures of them at our pool, I tend to take a bunch when they are swimming at places where I can take pictures. So here are Desmond and Eloise swimming, playing in the water and being squirted in early August.
So yesterday I decided to take pictures of our day. I took over 800 pictures, which I have a bunch to edit still to post. I took one from each activity/time period to post and show what we do during the day. I am missing a couple of pictures from the evening because we were suppose to go swimming and didn’t so I didn’t take the camera, since the fitness club doesn’t allow photography. Anyways here is a random Tuesday in my life…
Most days somewhere between 5am and 8am Desmond comes into our bed and snuggles back down to sleep, though the 8am entrances he normally just nurses and is ready to get up. On Tuesday Desmond came in around 6:30 when Dan got up to go to work and went back to sleep till 7:38am, when the front door closed as Dan left for work.
Eloise normally sleeps in till around 11am. She will stir somewhere between 6:30 and 8 to eat and then go right back to sleep. She normally sleeps in the bed with me from her stirring until Desmond and I go downstairs when I put her back in the pack and play.
Once we get downstairs I normally get some fruit and some kind of protein for Desmond, today it was nuts, most days it is cheese. I just leave out the plate so he can get something to eat when he is hungry. Since we are normally downstairs by 8am, 8:30 at the latest, we normally have between 2 and 3 hours before Eloise gets up. I am trying to do various arts and crafts and other such projects with him in this time, so that things with small pieces and put away by the time Eloise gets up and so that he has some one on one Mommy time. I call it pre-school light, since we tend to read and do various projects.
On Tuesday we started with Sensory play with beans. I mentioned in my Sensory play post that I had moved the beans to a bigger container and gotten more, this is the bigger container with more beans, I still need to get a few more, but he really enjoys playing with it.
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So earlier today Desmond patted his chair and said “sis sit” which means put Eloise here please Mommy. Since Eloise was in a good mood I decided to oblige. I have the camera out taking pictures of Eloise sitting in the chair and Desmond comes up behind her and kisses her on the head. It was so cute. I actually got him to do it again, but I wasn’t able to click the camera in time to get a second picture.
Desmond giving Eloise a kiss
So one of the things I’ve made for Desmond to play with is a container filled with beans. We started with a small container and just lima beans. He had another container he could transfer them to and a set of measuring cups to use as well. He really likes playing with it for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. I have since made the container bigger and put in more and different varieties of beans so it is more of a small sensory table. Here are a bunch of pictures of him playing with it the first time I gave him just the lima beans and measuring cups. He really liked dumping them on the floor when he was done. Fortunately he doesn’t do that with the larger set up!
Desmond put his left over mac and cheese in a bucket and then put it outside of the gate, and closed the gate?
Two year olds are amusing!
Desmond likes taking away whatever toy Eloise is playing with so that he can play with it. Sometimes though he will actually give her a toy to play with instead. He will sometimes even bring it to her when she is in a different room then him. These pictures from last week show him playing with a car and then letting Eloise have it, which was very nice of him.
Desmond is still not sure what to make of Eloise. He is getting more use to her though and will sometimes touch her and play with her. One of his favorite things to do is to tell me to sit her down where he pats. He then “waits” till she falls over, or “helps” her fall over and then “helps” he get back up to a sitting position. As long as he isn’t trying to lift her up and she is happy I let him move her about with supervision. Here is Desmond playing with Eloise to get her to sit back up. The picture are in order starting with her sitting and then on the ground, so Desmond can “help” her back up.
I have noticed that I am not really posting much more then a short paragraph and tons and tons of photographs. So I’ve decided to change around my blog a bit. I am still going to be posting the tons of photos, but all but one or two will be hidden from view, so you’ll have to click on the “read the rest of this entry” link. I figure it will clean up the front of my blog a bit. Also I can then highlight one or two pictures I really like from each set, but those who want to see all the pictures can still see them, and those that are happy with one or two don’t get overwhelmed with the thousands that I tend to post.
I am also going to try to make longer posts, but no promises on that, since Desmond is only napping about 50% of the time right now, which means I don’t get a ton of downtime.
Feel free to leave any questions or comments in my comment section.
So last week I got out the finger paints so that Desmond could play with them. He tends to wake up in the morning about 2 to 3 hours before Eloise at the moment, so letting him do various arts and crafts then makes sense. Anyways he really enjoyed finger painting a lot and insisted on doing it again the following day. He likes to put his hands in the paint and then smush them on the paper making little hand prints.
