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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On Saturday we went to Maryland’s RenFest. Both Dan and I really enjoy it and both Desmond and Eloise seemed to have fun. I wore Eloise and Dan wore Desmond, we were going to let him down when he wanted to, so he could walk around and explore some. Unfortunately he decided to have a tantrum when we let him down so he went right back up onto Dan’s back.

One of the most amusing parts of the day was when we saw a fruit stand and Dan commented, “Who goes to RenFest to buy fruit?” To which I looked at him and said, “Actually, how about we get Desmond an apple, he has only eaten fries today.” So we did. He was thinking the fruit stand was more like a farmers market, not a stand that was selling individual pieces of fruit.

We had a lot of fun while there, and both short ones got a doll, and Desmond got a sword as well.

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Dan was playing on the computer the other day, so both Desmond and Eloise decided to be with him and watch him play. The two of them are leaning on the desk which is right next to our big chair.

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