Archive for May, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

We had a very busy Memorial Day weekend. We were planning on a fairly relaxing one but things changed. On Saturday we did have a relaxing day, went grocery shopping, but that was about it, though the grocery trip did span 3 stores.

On Sunday we went strawberry picking and then to my in-laws for their annual Memorial Day cookout. One of Dan’s friends from middle school came as well with his wife, so it was nice to hang out with them. We had fun at the cookout and strawberry picking.

On Monday we decided to go to Sesame Place. We had discussed maybe going on Monday on Sunday and decided that both Dan and I felt up for it. So we made the 2 1/2 hour car trip up, there was next to no traffic, which was nice, and the Delaware toll plaza has been finished off and the traffic flow actually flows there now rather then being a 30+ minute ordeal. We had a fun 4 hours at Sesame Place and then headed home again. It was a nice day, though the ride home, was a bit rough with Eloise melting down at one point and us having to stop to get her to calm down, which woke up Desmond, sigh. Everyone had fun at Sesame Place though, Eloise even went on more then the carousel! She did the family water slide twice with Dan and Desmond, and one other water slide once with Dan. Desmond got to ride a bunch of water slides, and the roller coaster 3 times, which he really loved. Sully had fun in the water, and slept a lot, since it was so hot. All in all it was a great day if hot, and long with all the driving. Oh and we think that Eloise has motion sickness, which would explain the occasional car sickness episodes she has and her dislike of spinning rides as well!

Anyways here are a couple of pictures, I’ll actually do a post for pictures from each event, well except grocery shopping (since even I don’t take pictures of that!), since there are a bunch. I’m going to spread out the posts through this week though, so that I don’t have a ton of posts on any one day.

Our new pool

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

So we have a new pool for our backyard. I had bought one back when Desmond was 1, but it has a leak in it and is way to small for Desmond. So we went out to Toy’s R Us and bought a bigger one, for the small ones to play in. It even has a water slide! A small one, but it keeps them happy anyways. Unfortunately our backyard facet is not working right now, and Dan has not been able to find the shutoff/turn on valve for it yet, so we’ve had to fill the pool by hand. The two small ones have really enjoyed it though, and even Sully has had fun in it, getting wet. It is even big enough for Mommy to sit in it with the small ones. Overall the pool has been a big hit. So here are some pictures from 2 different days of using it.


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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

All hail the King!

This is Desmond in the throne at his birthday party.

General Update

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

First off some basic blog information/musing. I am attempting to update the blog every Tuesday with a post, mainly a pictures post at this point in time, because typing a lot is a bit beyond what I have time for. I am also trying to post a Wordless Wednesday post every Wednesday. Other then that I am trying to post when I can, but things get busy with three. If you check the site on Wednesday though you should see the new big post from Tuesday and the new Wordless Wednesday, consider anything else a bonus.

I did get around to updating the header, so now Sully is on it. I am still debating if I want to change the whole look of the blog. It has had this look since right before Eloise was born, but I like it still, since it is fairly simple and basic, so I’m still debating which way to go on it, and if I want to spend the time updating the whole look or not.

As for a general family update. Everyone is doing well, Sully is getting lots of attention from his big brother and sister. Desmond is almost done with preschool for the year, I think he enjoyed the year, and should have fun next year. He will be going to summer camp for 4 weeks this summer which he should enjoy.

Desmond is pretty sassy right now, he likes to send you to your room if you don’t agree with him. So I get sent to my room quite often as does Dan. He also has told us, “I don’t want you to say no, you should always tell me yes!” He is always disappointed when his wishes don’t come true. Eloise is starting to have a bit of an attitude too, though nothing compared to her brother. She does have to do whatever Desmond is doing. So if Desmond is doing xyz Eloise always tells us, “me too!” and tries to do it as well. Sully is social smiling, which is nice and he is babbling a little, he still hasn’t rolled completely over, but is quite good on getting up on his side. He is now wearing the same size diapers as Eloise, and we’ll learn how big he is at his 2 month appointment next week.

Everything is going well now, though I am fairly busy with all three of them, we are starting to get a routine down though, so hopefully things will start to calm down some as summer progresses.

Sunday at the in-laws

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Here are a bunch of pictures from 2 Sundays ago when we were at my in-laws. We visit them almost every Sunday. It was nice out so we were all out in their backyard and they were playing with the three small ones.

Eloise sitting outside on the bench

Des running playing tag

Sully with my mother in law

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

A lazy Saturday afternoon.

7 Week Faces

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

So I took some pictures of Sully this afternoon since my in-laws took Eloise with them to go pick up Desmond and go to the Mall to play for awhile. I was hoping to get one of him smiling, but he won’t smile for the camera, hopefully soon. Anyways I thought I’d share a bunch of pictures of the different faces that he made today at 7 weeks old.

So here are pictures of Sully’s varying expressions within a 5 minute or so time period at 7 weeks old.

Sully’s first professional pictures

Monday, May 16th, 2011

While my Mom was here, back in April we took Sully to Sears, along with Eloise and Desmond to get some pictures done. I forgot to post a couple of them here though once we had them done, so I’ll do that now. On that note I still need to make up his birth announcement, hopefully I get to it this week. Anyways here are some of the pictures we got of Sully, Eloise and Desmond when we went to Sears.

Eloise giving Sully a kiss

Unfortunately Desmond’s hair kept getting in the way of a picture of him giving Sully a kiss.

Sleeping baby!

All 3 of them together. This picture actually was really easy to get, unlike trying to get a picture of Eloise and Desmond together, or even Eloise and Desmond individually with Sully.

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Little Builders!

Pictures from Birthdays

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Okay since I didn’t get these posted on their birthdays or soon after. Here are a bunch of various pictures of Desmond and Eloise enjoying their birthdays.


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