or I have a peanut!

Eloise had her 1 year appointment today, 4 days early I know. She is doing great, she dropped a bit percentage wise in weight but not enough to worry about. She is still right around the same percentage height. She is doing great developmentally. She is walking though not all the time and she is talking up a storm. She loves to tell you and point to what she wants.

Anyways she was 17 pounds 15.5 ounces, so just at 18 pounds, shockingly she did not hit 20 pounds by 1, her weight puts her right around the 8th percentile for weight. She is 28 inches tall which puts her in the 25th percentile for height. She is in the 50th percentile for her head. She is just a tiny little peanut. She did great at the appointment though and had fun at the park afterward.

She gained 1 pound 3.5 ounces in the past three months which is a decent gain, and she gained 1 1/4 inches.

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

Here are Desmond’s stats for the same time period. She is just a little heavier then he was at 4 months and between his 6 and 9 month height. She is 5 pounds 8.5 ounces lighter then he was at 1 year and 2 inches shorter.

At birth Desmond was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 20 3/4 inches
At one months Desmond was 11 pounds and 23 inches
At two months Desmond was 14 pounds and 24 1/2 inches
At four months Desmond was 17 pounds 13 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At six months Desmond was 19 pounds 13 ounces and 27 inches
At nine months Desmond was 22 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches
At 12 months Desmond was 23 pounds 8 ounces and 30 inches

Here are some picture’s from Nonnie and PomPom’s lake house when we were there in February. First is Desmond riding on his ride toy. Then we have Eloise standing, taking a step from behind and playing with Nonnie!

When we were in Atlanta in February I met up with a friend from a message board one day. We decided to meet at the Atlanta Aquarium. I really like the Aquarium and Desmond enjoys it too since there is a lot to do and see there. We met up with my friend and her daughter who is the same age as Desmond. Eloise spent some time in the stroller, but I quickly moved her to my front since it was easier then pushing the stroller. She enjoyed looking at the fishes and Desmond and his friend enjoyed running around, looking at the fishes and playing. We all had a great time. Since I don’t have permission to post my friend’s daughter’s pictures (I haven’t asked her), here are some of the pictures of just Desmond at the Aquarium. I kind of forgot to get any pictures of Eloise, oops!

Desmond loves to paint. I admit he doesn’t get to paint as often as he would like because I hate cleaning up the mess. He does get to paint fairly frequently though. Here he is using his finger paints in January. He quite likes getting his hands covered in paint and then complaining till I clean it off for him and then doing it again.

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One night in January when we had black beans Eloise got rather messy. Okay any night or time we have black beans Eloise gets rather messy, but still. So Desmond being a loving big brother tried to wipe her off with a burp cloth and then a wet wipe. Unfortunately it didn’t work there was just too much of a mess. It was so cute watching him trying to clean up Eloise.

And here is Eloise after Desmond’s help to clean her up. She got a bath a minute or two later.

So Dan and I like to game. Both board games and video games. We have an Xbox360, a Wii and 3 DSs (one for me, one for Dan and one for Desmond). Plus we have computers that play games as well. Desmond and Eloise have a computer in the corner for them, though it is more Desmond’s at the moment then Eloise’s since he can control it a bit more.

Anyways, both my children are apparently following their parent’s footsteps. Eloise likes trying to get Desmond’s DS and play with it, though she can’t play any games yet she just likes playing with the case.

Desmond on the other hand is quite happy to play his games on his DS. He has about 3 he can play by himself at this point in time.

He also loves playing on the Xbox360. He looks so much like a teenager in these next two pictures, sitting on the bean bag playing the Xbox.

We got a bunch of boxes from IKEA to put toys in. Desmond and Eloise both feel they are a great place for them to sit as well. Here are some pictures of the two of them playing in the blue boxes. We have red boxes as well, but they seem to like the blue ones better for playing in.

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I finally got around to finishing editing a bunch of pictures last night. So I have a bunch of pictures from both January and February to post. I figure I’ll do a couple of posts for the next few days. There are various sets of pictures so I will actually do separate posts rather then just one huge photo dump. Check my new posts to see some cute pictures.

Okay those these aren’t all the pictures they took yesterday, since that would have been over 40 pictures and some of them were a bit less then stellar, but here are a bunch of the pictures we had taken of Eloise. Enjoy the Eloise is turning 1 pictures!

First off here are the pictures of her with the 1 and the party background

Next are all the pictures of her in her pretty dress. I really like how these came out, she looks so cute.

Here is the previous one enhanced

We had to work hard to get pictures without her fingers in her mouth, she kept trying to put them in and we kept taking them out.

This is one of my favorite pictures

Here it is in black and white

Here is another one of my favorite pictures, I just like the angle on it. It also made me realize she has a cleft chin. I knew I had one and Desmond had one, I hadn’t realized she did too.

Here it is in black and white, I really like the picture in black and white.

She did not want to stand solo, she kept sitting when we stood her up, but we were finally able to get her to stand, but she was facing sideways. Here are her standing pictures.

I really love how the enhancements on this one make it look so old fashioned

We also got some combo pictures with our package so here are the ones we got. I like how they all turned out.

So we went to Sears today to get Eloise’s one year pictures done since Kiddie Kandids is gone. I was impressed, we got a ton of pictures. I realized after the pictures were done that I wanted a few more of her in her first outfit, but I decided not to worry about it since the photographer had taken over 40 pictures of her. We got to chose which ones we liked from all of them. Which was a huge change from Kiddie Kandids where you get to chose from between 6 and 8. We got a lot of great photos of her and she looks really really cute. The only downside is they don’t print on site, so I have to wait till the 10th to get all my sheets of her pictures. On the plus side they burn the CD there and we got all the pictures plus all the enhancements they had done there and a release so we can print the pictures anywhere we want, which is nice. We were impressed with the service and all the great pictures. We plan to go back for Desmond’s 3 year pictures next month.

Here are a couple of teasers. I’ll post the rest of the ones I edited for the web tomorrow.