So we ordered a lot of holiday presents off of Amazon, it is easy, I have prime so 2 day shipping is free and it tends to be cheaper then going to the store a lot of the time. Anyways we ordered a package on Friday. It has a couple of gifts for tomorrow in it.

It didn’t arrive on Monday, which wasn’t unexpected considering the snow, then it didn’t arrive on Tuesday, which was a bit more surprising. When it hadn’t arrived on Wednesday though I went ahead and checked the order online to see where it was. It said it had been delivered on Monday. We did not get a package on Monday. So Dan called up Amazon and talked to one of their people on the phone. He gave them the information, they said okay and immediately resent out our order 1 day shipping so it would arrive by today, with no questions and no fees.

It was a quick and painless call and the package arrived as promised today. I have to say I was extremely impressed with Amazon’s customer service, they were great about getting the package to us, even if their system says we already received the package that never arrived. That is great customer service!

Here are two videos of Desmond sledding as well. He had a ton of fun sledding this afternoon.

Here is Eloise sledding.

Here they are both on the sled! They really liked sledding together.

Here is a cute video of Desmond pulling Eloise while she is on the sled.

I have a bunch of videos of Desmond and Eloise sledding. First though here is Dan sledding yesterday. He is trying to pack down the snow so sledding will be easier. He doesn’t quite succeed though!

Desmond March 1, 2009

Desmond December 19, 2009

So we have had a huge snow storm here, it started last night and has dumped around 20 inches of snow here and we may get another inch or three before it is done. I think it is great, since I love snow, and it is fun to play in and take the small ones out in for awhile. We picked up a sled last night before the snow started, at the third place we tried, but unfortunately the snow wasn’t packed down enough to actually sled. Desmond still enjoyed playing with it though. Eloise really liked the snow too. She actually tried to eat it when sitting in it. When we took them out we probably had about 14 inches of snow, it was fairly deep and Desmond had some trouble trudging through it because of how deep it was, he loved it anyways though. Here are a bunch of snow pictures.

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So we are doing Christmas at our house this year. We normally do it at my in-laws, but with the two kids it is easier if my in-laws come here rather then us go over there. This means we need a tree. We had a fake tree when we lived in Atlanta, but I didn’t pack it when we moved up, since I am not a huge Christmas person, being Jewish and all, and we would celebrating at my in-laws anyways. So we haven’t had a tree since we moved up, actually I am pretty sure we haven’t had a tree since either 1999 or 2000, I am almost positive we didn’t put up the one we had in 2001.

So a few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving actually we picked up a fake tree from Target. We decided fake was safer with the two small ones, and less expensive in the long run. It was a fairly inexpensive tree, and it was on sale. We also picked up some ornaments. We had some left from when we last did a tree, but I couldn’t remember how many or if they were child safe, so we’ve been picking up child safe ornaments for our tree. We also picked up 3 strands of different color lights.

With the snow this weekend and it being less then a week to Christmas we decided to set up the tree today.

First we took it out of the box. Desmond decided the box was the best toy ever!

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Since Desmond has given up his nap I really haven’t had much time to edit photos, so I still don’t have the Thanksgiving and other pictures ready for posting. I mean I do have evenings free, since with no naps he is in bed by 8/8:30 most nights, but I tend to not get to them then because I’m talking to Dan and doing other things. So I still have a bunch of pictures from Thanksgiving and such to post. I will try to get them up in the next few days or so.

I still haven’t been able to get a picture of Eloise standing without support, she is great at it, but as soon as I grab the camera she sits down or reaches for support. I am hoping to get a picture sooner or later though. She is really cute standing all alone, she’s going to start walking any time now, especially since she can bounce up and down when standing without support.

All the no pictures comments being made, I did upload and edit a bunch of pictures from today and our giant snowstorm, and trimming our tree. I’ll post about those in the next post.