and sometimes we spin in circles. The first video here is from yesterday morning too. Desmond was going into the pantry where he has two cars stashed, I don’t ask why he’s 2 that is the best answer I’ve got, I asked him if he was going to give the car to Eloise to play with, so he went back to the pantry to put the toy away so she couldn’t have it. Such a caring brother *grin*.
The second video is from last night. Desmond decided to run and spin in circles for 30 minutes or so. It made me tired just watching it. I did tape him though since it was amusing to watch if a bit tiring.
Here are two videos from yesterday morning. The first one is the two of them playing together. In the second one, Desmond went into the bathroom to get a cloth to wipe off Eloise’s face. He is such a nice big brother!
Here is a video from Labor day with Eloise walking between Dahdi (Dan’s Mom) and Dan. She is pretty good at it, she just needs hands to help her balance. That fact is kind of scary since I am so not ready for her to walk on her own yet!
I took a couple of videos of the small ones yesterday afternoon. There were also a few videos from earlier this week and last week on the video camera, so Dan downloaded and converted all the videos for me last night. This morning I uploaded them to youtube so that I could post them here at nap time. Since it is now nap time, at least for the boy child, I have a few moments and I can post the videos. First off we’ll start with the ones from a few days ago.
Here is Desmond playing with his kitchen and trying to break his toy egg, it actually is two pieces velcroed together so it does come apart, but he isn’t great at getting it apart yet.
Next is Eloise standing up all by her self holding onto the toy area.
We went to the big playground twice this weekend, once on Sunday and once on Monday. On Sunday we also went to the pool, since the outdoor pool closed on Monday and we’re back inside now. We didn’t go on Monday because it was too cold to swim. I brought my camera along on both playground days and got a bunch of pictures of Desmond playing. Dan also got a few of Eloise. So here is Desmond at the playground on Sunday.
So earlier today I was going to put Eloise on my back so she could nap. However Desmond saw the carrier and insisted that he needed to be carried in it. Rather then deal with a tantrum and other assorted two year old behaviors, I decided to wear him on my back. I still needed to wear Eloise though since she still needed her nap and wasn’t going down nursing or any other way. So since I had a Mei Tai and Dan’s Calyx in the living room I decided to put her on my front. It was actually surprisingly comfortable to carry both of them and the 45 pounds of them was well distributed and didn’t bother me at all. Desmond eventually decided to go down after about an hour, but I have to say it was remarkably easier then I was expecting to carry them both and it worked well, Eloise got her nap and Desmond got his snuggle time on my back and didn’t feel left out.
I took a few pictures, but since I had to do them in the bathroom so I could get our reflection in the mirror, they didn’t turn out well in color, they work okay in black and white though so I’ll post them. I was just wearing a tank top since I figured two on me was going to be a bit toasty and I was right.
Overall, it was an experiment that worked out and I’ll do again, if I need to carry Eloise for her nap and Desmond wants up as well. I am really glad we had decent carriers I could do this with.
I have this one photo that doesn’t really go anywhere else, so I am giving it a post all its own. Here is Desmond drawing on his chalkboard wall. I am now semi caught up in pictures, though not for long, I have a bunch to edit from this weekend and post now. I am caught up through around Friday though.
So I was playing around with the camera trying things out so I don’t always use the point and click mode. I was working a bit with aperture and took a bunch of different pictures, that didn’t turn out so great because of how dark it was in the house. I did get a few decent ones of Eloise though so here they are. You can actually see her smiling in some of these, which I so rarely can catch on camera.
So Desmond loves to paint, he isn’t as thrilled about getting paint on his hands though. So I decided to let him try painting with paintbrushes instead. He loved this, he did use his hands occasionally, but he really enjoyed the fact that he could paint without getting his hands messy. He had a ton of fun with this activity. I gave him a bunch of different sized paint brushes to use and a couple of sponge brushes he really liked seeing the different things he could do with the different brushes.
