Yep still tiny. Eloise had her 18 month appointment today. She weighted in somewhere between 19 pounds 6 ounces and 19 pounds 8 ounces. I’m going with the 6 ounces because that is the one the nurse went with. It keeps her under the 5th percentile for weight still. She didn’t really grow taller in the last 3 months either, she is now 30 1/8 inches tall, which puts her in the 12th percentile. Her head stayed steady in the 50th percentile.

She gained 1 pound 2 ounces in 3 months which isn’t bad, and 3/8th of an inch which is a bit low. The doctor didn’t seem overly concerned though she did want us to watch her weight. We are probably going to bring her back for a weight check in 3 months or so, since she needs another shot anyways, which she will just love!

She is ahead developmentally and doing fine as far as all her milestones go, she is just tiny. Which isn’t a huge surprise considering I was tiny as a toddler too. All in all it was a good appointment though she is not happy with us having her get two shots. She has been clingy and upset all evening.

At birth 7 pounds 5 ounces and 19 3/4th inches
At 1 month 8 pounds 8 ounces and 20 3/4 inches
At 2 months 10 pounds 4 ounces and 22 1/2 inches
At 4 months 12 pounds 14.5 ounces and 24 inches
At 6 months 15 pounds 4 ounces and 25 1/2 inches
At 9 months 16 pounds 12 ounces and 26 3/4 inches
At 12 months 17 pound 15.5 ounces and 28 inches
At 15 months 18 pounds 4 ounces and 29 3/4 inches
At 18 months 19 pounds 6 ounces and 30 1/8 inches

So my kids are little gamers. I know TV bad, computer games bad for young children. Moving past that now. Both my kids love computer games which isn’t surprising considering their parents. Desmond adores our XBOX360 and is quite good with the controller now, he is actually better at playing Toy Story 3 then I am now. He also finally figured out how to use the mouse on the kid computer so he will open up Starfall, Reading Eggs, Playhouse Disney or PBS Kid website and play games there by himself or to entertain Eloise. Which is kind of nice. I should probably go ahead and find the controllers for the Wii to see how he does with it, since there are some games on it we have that I think he would quite like.

Anyways back to Lego Rockband. Desmond has always been a fan of the Rockband game, and we got the lego version which is nice since it has a no fail super easy mode. So here are the two small ones a few weeks ago both playing along and watching as DH played. I had a picture of Eloise rocking on the drums too, but it didn’t come out right. Anyways here are the cute ones.

So on Saturday, rather then being a good Jew and going to temple to celebrate Yom Kipper, I should really find a temple, maybe by next year, we went apple picking. 35 pounds of apples and hour or so later we were done apple picking. Now of course we need to figure out what we are doing with 35 pounds of apples, we’ve been eating them, which works, but it is a lot of apples. I do have a recipe for freezable apple pie filling that we might try this weekend.

Anyways both Desmond and Eloise had fun apple picking, Eloise mainly just ate an apple and wandered around, Desmond was big on helping us pick the apples, he was actually fairly helpful since he could get in areas that larger people couldn’t so her got some nice apples. Here are the two of them having fun apple picking.

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I know I haven’t posted since early August, but I just haven’t really had the time to post, to much going on watching the small ones and going out of town for my brother and sister in laws wedding and such. I will try to post a bit more now that we are slightly less busy, other then Desmond having something to do every day but Fridays and Sundays! Eloise’s schedule at least is a bit quieter with her having Gymnastics on Wednesday and then going to my in-laws on Friday.

Anyways I posted a couple of recent photos, I am probably going to go ahead and skip posting a lot of the summer pictures I have left to post, I will try to post some of the pictures I have from my brother’s wedding here, though they are already up on facebook for those that are my friend on facebook. Desmond made an adorable ring bearer!

Anyways we have enjoyed our busy summer, but it is nice moving into fall and ending up with slightly less busy fall.

Desmond started preschool last Tuesday. He had class Tuesday and Wednesday and then off on Thursday for Rosh Hashana. He starts back tomorrow and actually goes all three days this week, the only time this month, due to various Jewish holidays that happen this month. Anyways Dan takes him in the morning and he starts at 7am in the before preschool care program, and then I pick him up at 12:15, it works out nicely since it means I only need to put Eloise in the car once a day for a pickup and it also means she can sleep in and doesn’t have to get up to take Desmond to preschool. She is not a morning toddler!

Anyways Desmond had a lot of fun at his preschool the first two days. He knew the set up somewhat from summer camp, which I think helped some. He has really enjoyed himself so far though. Dan did comment that he was not overly happy with him in the mornings dropping him off, but since he takes his Buzz Lightyear with him he is okay after a minute or two. Which is nice.

Anyways here is his picture in the parking lot on his first day of preschool. He looks thrilled doesn’t he?

So on Saturday we went to RenFest. We wanted to get a couple more of the dolls (plaids) that Eloise and Desmond loved from last year and the vendor was only there this past weekend and the weekend before. We got both small ones 2 more dolls, which they both love. Desmond takes one with him everywhere.

We arrived after Desmond was finished with his gymnastics class and we brought the carrier for Eloise since it is not a great ground for a stroller and let Desmond walk. We probably should have brought a carrier for him too since he was quite done by the time we left. We got there and got their dolls first off, Desmond happily carrier his blue doll and red doll around for the rest of the trip, Eloise had one of her’s in the carrier and the other in my bag. We then wandered a bit and found the ponies! We let Desmond get in line for the ponies while Eloise stayed on Dan’s back and took pictures. Apparently the entire time Desmond was on the pony Eloise chanted “horse, horse, horse, horse!” So Dan checked how big they had to be to ride on the ponies and was told Eloise was big enough. We actually left the ponies and figured we would come back and let her ride and Desmond have his second ride. We did a couple of other things at the fare and then headed back to the ponies, where Eloise got her ride. She chanted “horse, horse, horse, horse!” the entire time she was on the pony and was happy to go a second time on the pony, if she had had her way we would have never left and she would now own a pony to ride.

Desmond really enjoyed his two rides as well. Dan got a couple of good pictures of Desmond on the pony and a couple of okay pictures of Eloise, so here they are on the ponies.

Here you can sort of see Eloise doing her “cheese” face, whenever she sees a camera she says “cheese” grins and squeezes her eyes shut, it makes it hard to get a good pictures of her. Though she is adorable when she does it.