Okay so I have pictures from 3 different sources for our Disney trip. I have some from our big camera, some from the little camera and some from the Disney photographers. I don’t actually have the ones from the Disney photographers yet and I haven’t downloaded and edited the ones from the small camera yet. Here are some of the pictures from the big camera though. We had a ton of fun, Desmond was exhausted by the end and is still exhausted a week later. It was a great vacation though and we can’t wait to return in 3 years or so.

These are not in any order just an fyi, just some of the pictures I took.

First off is Eloise and Tigger at our Winnie the Pooh breakfast.

Desmond and my Mom in Bruce’s mouth at Epcot (Bruce is a shark from Finding Nemo)

Read the rest of this entry »

We are home from Disney World. We all had a great time. Desmond loved seeing the characters and riding on the various rides and running around. Eloise loved It’s a Small World and flirting with everyone. I’ll try to post some pictures and such in the next few days. We had a great time.

Here is a bunch of pictures of Eloise eating various different solid foods. I figured it was easiest to put them all in one post rather then making 3 separate posts.

First off here she is at my in-laws eating stirfry.

Here she is eating pancakes when we did breakfast as dinner.

And finally here she is eating avocado.

So on Yom Kipper, I am just such a great Jew, I did an activity with Desmond. We made cupcakes. He really loves helping with this. He was okay at putting the cupcake papers in the muffin tins, he loved pouring the water into the mix and he liked mixing, he wasn’t quite up to cracking eggs yet though and I mixed in the butter because it was hot since I had melted it in the microwave. He also loved trying to frost them when they were done and cool and he really really really liked putting sprinkles on them, by the handful. So here is Desmond making cupcakes.

Here are a couple of pictures from a few weeks ago of Desmond stringing his beads. He is really enjoying this activity right now, it keeps him entertained for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, and he can do it all by himself at this point in time.

So last night we were at Target and Desmond was up ahead of us a bit, he stopped at a end cap display and picked up a decoration type thing, that was a wooden word. He then turned to me and Dan and said, “family” we looked at the wooden word and yep it did say family. I swear the child can read, but he just never shows it except in times like that, randomly.

Then this afternoon, he is nursing before his nap and I tell him 5 minutes more, he pops off looks at me and says, “times 2 is 10.” and goes back to nursing. Seriously when did the child learn to multiply? I wasn’t actually aware he knew how much 10 was yet, but he apparently knows 5 times 2 is 10.

On amazing Eloise stories, since it seems unfair to leave her out, she looked at her doll the other day and said “hi doll.” I think I may be surrounded by smart children and I’m not sure I like it!

We went to the playground again last week. Desmond had a lot of fun running around and Eloise got to go down the slides and play on the equipment too, which she enjoyed, she is still a bit small though.

Read the rest of this entry »

Desmond loves to make mischief, a couple of weeks ago we hear him say “Tah Dah” and look over at him to see the entire sofa now has a nice brown marker finish to it. He was also nice enough to color himself in with marker as well. I didn’t actually realize he still had the marker in this picture, I had thought he had dropped it before he said “tah dah!”

Eloise loves to stand, she loves to pull up into a stand and just stay there, she will eventually whine because she isn’t sure how to get down, but then once down she will climb right back up into a stand. I was really hoping for a slower mover this time, it was a foolish wish I guess *grin*.

Desmond is not a neat eater and when eating chocolate he is a very not neat eater. I believe he won the battle against the chocolate this time, but I am not positive.