So I have been a bit bad about posting recently. We’ve been busy and Eloise, Sully and Dan were sick for part of October, so I just haven’t really felt like posting much. I have kept up the Wordless Wednesday though. Anyways we had a good Halloween. We went out to the mall the Saturday before Halloween because they were doing trick or treating there, and then we went out Halloween night as well.

We also had a nice little snow storm that Saturday after the trick or treating at the mall. Fortunately we didn’t get much unlike some of my friends in the North. All the snow we got was gone by Sunday, and we avoided the widespread power outages and such. It was kind of cool to have snow in October, even if it wasn’t much.

Anyways we went for a theme this year, Desmond was “Luke Skywalker with a blue lightsaber because the green one broke”, Eloise was “Princess Leia with a pink lightsaber”, and Sully was Yoda. Here are some pictures from the mall and then from Halloween itself. Desmond, Dan and Sully were out for awhile, Eloise lasted about 15 minutes, which was about what I expected.

The Mall:

On Halloween:

The pumpkins, back left Sulley (Monsters, Inc), front left standard halloween jack’o'lantern, front right Minnie Mouse, back right Mater (Cars)

I love this group shot, what Mom you wanted us to look at you?

7 Months Old
6 Teeth a teething
5 fingers grabbing
4 hands and knees crawling
3 words a babbling (mama, dada, bye)
2 legs a standing
1 tongue blowing raspberries

This is entitled, 15 minutes or I dress myself!

She is currently still wearing outfit 3, but I’m expecting a change anytime since it’s been over an hour since she last changed.

Band-Aids!

Finger painting

We don’t finger paint often here, because it is 5+ minutes of set up, for 5 to 15 minutes of finger painting, depending on the child and then 30 minutes of bath time. It takes less time to just skip the finger painting and go straight to the bath.

So we went to the playground yesterday. No big shock there, we have been going a lot since it is perfect playground weather right now. Since Dan was home though I took the big camera and got some pictures of Sully, since I could let him down, and someone could still keep an eye on the two bigger ones. Here are some pictures of Eloise and Desmond playing and of Sully exploring the playground.

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So Desmond had been trying to figure out what we do each day, and I figured a visual reminder would be useful. Thus came about my plan to make a weekly calendar. I used a variety of things to make it, first I used some color paper I had lying about, I also used various scrapbooking alphabet stickers I had, to make the words and labels needed. I used the computer to print out small activity cards for what we do on various days. I bought 2 big metal boards from IKEA to put up the calendar on. I also bought the bar and 3 small cups to put the various activity cards and date cards in. I also had a laminator to laminate the various pages and activity cards of the calender. I bought some magnetic tape from Amazon, and I had some velcro stick dots lying around that I used as well.

Here is the calendar coming together. First is Desmond hammering in a screw mount for a screw to hold up the metal boards.

Here is Desmond showing off the metal boards now they are up:

Here is Desmond showing off the finished board:

Here is the calendar, sorry about the glare:

Desmond and Eloise have enjoyed putting up the various activity even if they aren’t actually happening on that day. We’ll see how it goes now that it is up and all ready.

Sully had his 6 month appointment today it went great. He is doing great, we think the nurse measured him wrong so he is actually longer then his official stats, probably more like 27 inches, but it wasn’t a big enough issue to worry about. He is in the 80th percentile for weight and 50th for height this appointment. He also is in the 97th for head, he has a big head I guess. He is above target developmentally and the doctor has no worries about him. He is right between Eloise (15 pounds 4 ounces) and Desmond (19 pounds 13 ounces) weight at 6 months and he is the same height as Desmond (27 inches) was.

Here are his stats:
At birth he was 9 pounds 4 ounces and 22 inches
At one month he was 11 pounds 3 ounces and 23 inches
At 2 months he was 13 pounds and 24 inches
At 4 months he was 15 pounds 2 ounces
At 5 months he was 16 pounds 3 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At 6 months he was 17 pounds 8.5 ounces and 26 1/2 inches

In other exciting news Eloise is now up to 22 pounds and 8 ounces! She has gained almost 2 pounds since March and weighs almost the same as Desmond did at 9 months *grin*. She might actually make it to 24 pounds by 3.