So we had planned to go strawberry picking when the season started. We didn’t have time to go on Saturday May 13th though so we planned to go on the 14th. Unfortunately the farm was closed because the picking was still sparse at the time. So the following weekend, we decided we would go on Sunday, since we had a bunch of things happening on Saturday. Sunday came and it was wet and rainy, so we ran some errands in the morning. Around noon we decided it was wet out but not really raining so we would go ahead and go pick strawberries.

This is Desmond’s 3rd year picking strawberries he loves it. Eloise went last year, but she was on my back the whole time so this year is really her first year picking strawberries. She loved it too. She sat next to the strawberry container and ate the freshly picked strawberries out of it. She thought it was the best. Desmond actually picked a few strawberries before eating them. He was not happy when we left because he wanted to pick and eat all the strawberries. We figured 15 pounds of strawberries was more then enough.

I have a ton of pictures, so I am going use the break to cute down the number shown on the front page. There are a lot of pictures you have been warned!

First we have Dan showing off one of the huge melded strawberries we picked. We called it the butterfly strawberry since it looks like one

Here is Desmond picking some strawberries

Here is Eloise picking some strawberries

Now on to the enjoying of the strawberries

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Here they are enjoying themselves at the playground again.

So K-line’s crate was in the living room when we got home from Strawberry picking on Sunday. Which meant that both my kids needed to go play in it. They both quite enjoyed playing in the crate. Though Desmond wasn’t quite sure what to do when Eloise tried to lock him in!

I see my brother!

I am going to keep him in there!

Look Mommy I’m a puppy!

Just a cute picture of Eloise

So I got Desmond some frog counters to play with for some pre-Math activities. He loves them. I also got a couple of activities that went with them. So a couple of mornings a week I pull them out for him and he plays with them. He really likes the pattern matching activities and here he is working with them to make up the pattern he sees on the card. He is good at copying the pattern so I am thinking about starting the cards that leave a blank in them so he has to figure out which frog goes next.

So a couple of days ago Desmond wanted to play with his crayons. So I pulled them out and Eloise wanted to play too. I gave her some paper and crayons and let her draw some. She wasn’t exactly sure about it, but she had fun drawing and playing with the crayons.

So I took Desmond to his soccer class on Monday. It was a bit yuck out, but not raining so we went. We got there a bit late, after they had finished the warm ups which involve a bunch of running and such. Desmond participated for about 15 minutes, he did the kick the ball into the goal activity for awhile and ran around a bit, which wasn’t unexpected. Then he was done. He just sat down and didn’t want to do anything else. We watched the next activity for about 10 minutes and then we headed over to the playground where he had a ton of fun running and playing in the wet. We probably spent 30 minutes there. I don’t think we’re signing him up for soccer come fall, both based on his current reaction to his class and because he is starting preschool then and has gymnastics and swimming as well which will be more then enough activities for him we think. We may try again next spring if he is interested, but we’ll see then.

Anyways here he is playing soccer.

And here is Eloise. She had a lot of fun running and kicking the ball while Desmond was sitting.

Desmond July 2008

Desmond August 2009:

Desmond May 2010:

Eloise August 2009:

Eloise May 2010:

So a couple of weekends ago it was a gorgeous and hot Sunday. We were going to visit my in-laws, like we do almost every weekend, so we called them and told them to set up the wading pool if they could find it. They had apparently had the same idea, but couldn’t find it. When Dan called though they checked again and found it. So when we got to their house the pool was all set up and ready to go. Both of the kids had a ton of fun playing in the pool outside. Desmond also enjoyed running around the yard full tilt. Feel free to admire Eloise’s bathsuit, we found it at Target and figured it was perfect for her. We left it at my in-laws since we visit them often and having a bathing suit at their house for her makes life easy in the summer.

I love these two pictures of Desmond

All done and relaxing in the chair

So we go to the playground a lot and I tend to take pictures about 1 out 2 visits, so I have a lot of playground pictures. These pictures are from our visit on May 1st. We had gone the day before and I had gotten a picture of Desmond and Eloise walking holding hands with my small camera, but I wanted a better picture so I brought the big camera and they held hands and walked again for me. I also got some other pictures of the two of them playing at the playground since I had the camera with me anyways.

I can so see her as a teenager in this picture. Like seriously Mom do you have to take another picture of me?