Brothers

Jumping on the bed.

So my parents were up this weekend, my Dad had business earlier the week in the area and my Mom had business on Monday close by, so they both came up for the weekend. It was nice, I like seeing my parents, which is good because Sully and I are flying down on Friday for the weekend. Anyways, they were really here for only one day, they spent Friday evening with my sister and came over Saturday. My Mom and I went shopping, and took Eloise along with us, because she likes to shop. I picked up a couple of things I needed for the holidays and Eloise picked up a new giraffe purse, a my little pony castle and a fairy wings and tutu set, plus the hat and gloves my Mom had brought up with her.

Anyways my parents then took the two elders to the hotel with them for the night, which would have been nicer for me and Dan if they had left before 9pm, but they still had fun spending the night with them. We then all went out for breakfast before my parents headed out, good times were had by all, and we’ll probably see them again in February when we go down for a week. Well the elders will, Sully and I will see them Friday.

All this to show the pictures of Eloise dressed up in her pumpkin fairy costume, with her new tutu, wand and wings and hat and mittens. Here is Eloise the winter pumpkin fairy.

What my children get into when I turn my head for a second. Yes Eloise is hanging off the shelf half naked, and yes she does look like a famine victim in this picture.

So the week before Thanksgiving both Eloise and Desmond had Thanksgiving celebrations at preschool. Their classes made food, learned about Thanksgiving and did other small activities to get ready. Desmond’s celebration was on a Wednesday and Eloise’s was on a Thursday. Families were invited, but siblings were not. For Desmond’s I dropped Eloise and Sully off at the free babysitting, and I went along with my in-laws. It was cute and everyone had a good time, there were a lot of parents and relatives there.

For Eloise’s I dropped Sully off at the free babysitting, and then went. There were far fewer people, which made sense with a class of 12 vs 20. The 2s class was adorable though, and they had fun as well. The best part of the day however, was that Eloise got to have lunch in Desmond’s classroom. She loved it. She was the only child in the 2s class that stayed for lunch, and none of the children in the 3s class stayed that day either (they had their Thanksgiving Feast at the same time). Since I had to be back in an hour to pick up Desmond anyways, and Sully needed a nap, I left Eloise for lunch so they had to find somewhere to put her, her teacher had a funeral to attend. She loved going into the 4 year old class and being with Desmond and all the big kids. All the 4s (at least the girls) loved having her there as well. She keeps on asking to go back, I had to tell her that is was a one time thing. Here are a few pictures I took from both days.

Desmond listening to the book his teachers read

Desmond looking down in disgust at the food his class made

Eloise in her Thanksgiving hat

Eloise and her suitcase:

Apple Picking

Corn chowder and bread, yum!

So I am trying to catch up with pictures and stuff while updating the blog. Here are some pictures from when my parents were up right before my Mom’s birthday and my Dad came with us to go pumpkin picking. We actually met some friends there too. Two of the boys in Eloise’s preschool class, plus their little sister, who is around Sully’s age, and their Mom, Dad and Grandmother. We all had a lot of fun, both picking pumpkins before we met up with Eloise’s friends and afterwards when they did the hay maze, and hay ride. It was a really nice day and we got a lot of pumpkins which we then carved which you can see in an earlier post.

First off with the pumpkins:

I love this one

I love this one too!

At the fall festival part of the farm:

On the hay ride

Eloise and her two friends from preschool watching the pumpkins go by

In the pictures things

As you can see everyone had fun.

So Sully is a third child. The benefits of being the third is sometimes you get to do things that your siblings would never be allowed to do at your age. Like eat an Oreo! Desmond was nice and got Oreos for everyone including Sully. By the time I noticed he had handed one to Sully it was really to late, since he had already started eating it. So the child has had an oreo, which I never would have allowed for Eloise or Desmond. For Sully I just took pictures and gave him a bath when he was done.

Yes we will continue to try to avoid giving him chocolate, cookies, sugar, cake, pie, but having semi-independent brothers who like to share, I am sure he will end up with more of the above before he turns 1. Unlike his big brother and sister, where it was far easier to restrict their access from it, since they couldn’t get it themselves, and Desmond was too little to get it for Eloise when she was a baby.