Tag Archives: Friends

August 5th, 2018

Wake up and smell the waffle batter (as you do)

Ella got some good banana smashing in too

Mid-morning lego party

Eleanor getting into the tower-making game

Similar to her seemingly intrinsic desire to press play-doh to her check, there are hypothesis abound to to demystify this particular lego placement… no one will ever truly know.

Tower pride.

Despite it being both a ’68 and a convertible, Des obliged dad’s request to pose with the Mustang

Apparently everyone is ready for nap time

Post-nap hang with her “Maxie”

Putting Eleanor’s impulsive picking to good use

Visiting from the faraway land of Huntington Station, Long Island, NJ- Desmond curates and demonstrates duplos for Wyatt

Somehow indifferent to the charm of aunt Katie and uncle Stephen, all three kids are in full lego mode

Ella showing off her rodeo skills for the special guests

Eleanor’s first upgrade from highchair to kid table

Such a sweet night with friends

June 15th, 2018

A clear demonstration of their uniquely different risk profiles: Eleanor is quick try out the trampoline and spent the rest of the nightly determinedly getting back up after a bounce throws her. After a healthy dose of FOMO, Desmond reluctantly overcomes his initial and resolved decision stay grounded.

Eleanor finds comfort in the spacious bean bag chair, a contested spot between the two Eleanors at daycare

Eleanor got creative and expressive today at daycare. “Washable” means “Will wash off eventually (but not as soon as you’d think)”

June 3rd, 2018

An unfortunately timed photo, in reality Eleanor was happily sliding down while Des was merely scooting up to the edge and waiting his turn

Met up with mom’s friend and her daughter, Morgan

It was already getting hot out, so while mom had some friend time, the rest of the family hung in the shade

Patio lunch for three

Ella zonks right out

Everyone happily dining on mussels

…and one stowaway onion

June 2nd, 2018

At a friends birthday party (followed shortly by Calvin’s birthday party coincidentally in the same park), Eleanor tries on the on-theme unicorn costume for two seconds

No unicorn horn and running free, that’s better

Des ducking the goose

Eleanor decides to jump in and just start running around in circles

The result of some adult yelling, “CUPCAKES!”

The look of young jealousy-

Upon being reminded he too was getting a cupcake momentarily

That’s the stuff (gone)

Unicorns are pro-juice

Not a single “bonk” occurred, surprisingly

A quick walk around the lake before the birthday festivities started again

Eleanor, doing some light lifestyle modeling

Back together for Calvin’s birthday dinner, the group somehow scored a 12-top at Block 16 on a Saturday night

Eleanor looking at “horsey” pictures from Grandma’s outing to the equestrian show

May 4th, 2018

Eleanor found a new buddy at a family friend’s graduation gathering

Eventually Tosca made her solitary preferences known

Someone is turning out to be an early side-sleeper

St. Patrick’s Day 2018

St. Patrick’s Day commences with green doughnuts and green almond milk

Eleanor reintroduces herself to Sydney

The cousins discovering all the new entertainment at grandma’s house

Ella pointing to the special dessert, like Babe Ruth pointing to left field…

…incoming…

“Houston, we’ve landed!”

Antici-pation.

Yeah, the boys like theirs too.

Bye-bye Birdie (literally x 2)

Desmond hiding, from either Honey or T-Rex

December 31st, 2017

Des practicing with his new camera. f/8 and be there, kid.

Upon reviewing, “that good picture!”

Took several weeks, but Eleanor has discovered the Christmas tree loophole: the stairs

At a friend’s house for a family New Years Eve gathering, Eleanor pulls a conversation starter card from the deck.

Des just kinda appeared upstairs with a mask. As you do.

Downstairs it was “controlled” chaos

After an hour or two of trying to put her down in the pack-n-play, mom and dad surrendered and invited Ella to the party. Flirting with the emotional disaster of sleep deprivation, she was surprisingly even-keeled throughout the night. Dad entertaining her with nibbles of baked macaroni cheese cups

“Too much haha, soon boo-hoo…” Eleanor enjoy the noisemakers at first, but her enthusiasm eventually wained

Ok, the yawns eventually settled in

Meanwhile, Des is curled up with Grace downstairs

This is not a picture of Eleanor dealing Cards Against Humanity cards

The countdown…

2018! The first year both children made it to midnight. Tomorrow mom and dad shall envy all those with skull-splitting hangovers.

Yeah, it’s time to go to bed

December 30th, 2017

Des was proud of his most recent magna-tiles creation and requested a picture

Christmas brunch with friends. Playing catch in the living room, this can’t go wrong, right?

Nap time…

…shift change

More lego builds, with Luigi and Guido from Cars

Mom gets in on the lego action (don’t tell Des- we’re practicing numbers, spatial reasoning and fine motor skills)

TENS! for finishing the build

Suppose that’s one way to play with the tent

Trying a new setup for Saturday movie nights

Eleanor putting away a healthy portion of chili

Ah, they joys of foaming bath soap (“shaving cream”)

Of course he started by putting it on his leg and shaving, cause with dad’s beard, mom apparently has been the prominent shaving role model 🙂 Here we are also practicing face shaving, though following by arm and foot shaving for good measure.