Eloise's First Christmas

What a special Christmas, celebrating Eloise's first! She was very much into the tree and all of the endless love from all of our friends and family. Charlotte still does not quite get the concept of presents under the tree, though she has said "Santa Claus" many times! Charlotte is stepping into her role as "big sister" very nicely, and she was very helpful handing Eloise her new gifts as we opened them. She is very good at sharing and it is very sweet to watch the bond slowly grow.

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Eloise 20 Weeks

Our sweet Baby Eloise has reached twenty weeks. I will not lie though, I had no idea she was exactly twenty weeks on the day we did this photo shoot until I looked on a calendar. It was a good case of dumb luck. When Charlotte was born, I knew exactly how many weeks she was for months. I suppose when baby #2 arrives, there is considerably less space in your brain to compute such facts.

She feels so big to me and yet so small. I go back and forth looking at Charlotte and Eloise and one day one of them seems small and the other huge and vice versa. It is amazing to watch them grow and change. I feel like time really does go by so fast and they change so quickly. Some days I wish I could just freeze moments in time!

Whales!

Before Eloise was born, I bought matching whale sweaters with the dream of that perfect sibling photo, where they hug each other and smile endlessly. Ha! Charlotte is at the point of growing out of her sweater so the time was now! She has no interest in sitting with Eloise in the same chair, let along hug her. She likes Eloise and touches her toes and says hi, but the concept of sharing seating was just too much.

So, alas I took them in different shots and created a little memory of my dream!

Regal Frank

Words need not describe this little devil of a dog. Recently we watched Marley and Me, and we highly recommend you do not watch this if you love dogs. But really do not watch it if you love naughty dogs! it had us in tears for much of the duration and it was more than either of us could handle. We appreciate Frank every day, but this movie made us realize that we love him even if he has done a fine job of destroying things and making me replace things much sooner than most people do!

He has been very jealous of Eloise's arrival and has been having "tinkle" issues more so than usual. I decided to buy him a belly band (a nicer word for doggy diaper), and I realize that I bought one online with an uncomfortable waistline. Needless to say, he took it off and, yes, peed on it.

It looked like it cinched his stomach like a bad pair of stockings, which I am sure at some point, I probably would have peed on in anger as well if it was socially acceptable.

Frank, you are one of a kind.