Here are a couple of pictures of Eloise playing with her feet while we were downstairs in the basement playroom. She found them quite entertaining.

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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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So we have been working on making the basement into a playroom for a couple of months now. We finally got it cleared out and set up and all ready for play. Here are some pictures from it. First off is the wall for toys and such.

Next to that is our chalk walls, the side of the toy storage and the back wall area are red, and the main wall are blue, we got the chalkboard paint at Joanne’s, Desmond loves the fact that he is allowed to write on the walls there, and we like the fact that we have one area we can send him to write on the walls. You can also see his new IKEA kitchen, which he is really loving. He uses the two door compartments in the storage unit as his refrigerator, we figure eventually we’ll get him a small 2 cube with doors, but at the moment his solution works.

There is also a small table and chair set for him to sit on and use, and Eloise as well, when she is big enough to sit on the chairs. I don’t have any pictures of it right now though, well I do, but they are going in a different post *grin* since they are more focused on Eloise and Desmond.

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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