Tag Archives: Eleanor

July 25th, 2017

Sister is clearly teething again, so sleep is in 1.25-hour increments at night, and lucky to get 30 minutes at daycare. This afternoon she was pulling a few extra ZZZs before dad picker her up at daycare

July 23rd, 2017

Eleanor, cruising the books like her brother

Napping with dad, à la Marty McFly, for nearly three hours

Dad

July 22nd, 2017

View from mom’s morning crunches

Breakfast with the family and the dinosaurs at Dixie Quicks for mom’s birthday

Checking out aunt Megan’s new truck with Liam and Viv

Pretty much everything still goes straight into the mouth

Des really likes his Cars book. Sister does too, but for a different reason.

Everything tastes better via chopsticks

Des (surprisingly) getting into the splashing mood after dinner

Proud of his stacking skills (and let’s face it, dad was too)

July 21st, 2017

The beginning of the family band

That tongue

July 20th, 2017

Toddler breakdancing

You are doing something right when your 8 month old double fists shrimp pesto pasta

Mom’s 38th birthday

Eleanor splashing outside during water day at daycare

Eleanor showed how excited she was it was mom’s birthday

Desmond carefully guiding present time

He was less excited about mom’s new box kite and more interested in figuring out if there was anything more to the spool of string

Des singing, but mostly just eying that cupcake

July 16th, 2017

Katie and Stephen visiting their family in Sioux City it was worth a day trip up to see friends. Des quickly suckers Stephen into reading his newest Clifford book

Goofing around with Katie

Ella showing off her new crawling skills

I’m not…. *SNORE*”

Light sabers: fun for the whole family

More light-up toys to put in mouth

July 15th, 2017

Eleanor’s first drum lesson