I realized I didn’t have any pictures of what his hair looks like now, so I took a couple this evening. Here is Desmond’s new haircut.

First from the front, which is not much different.

Now from the back, where it is much shorter and looks a bit curlier, I think because of the shortness. It also looks somewhat neater because he doesn’t have a random chunk of hair that is long with the rest shorter.

Okay technically his first haircut was in India, but that was more of a religious thing where they just snipped off two chunks for the ceremony, it wasn’t a real haircut.

Anyways, the back of Desmond’s head has been getting really tangled and knotted so we decided to get it trimmed/cut. We didn’t want to get it cut too short, but I did want to get it a bit evened out since the snipped in India made his hair a bit uneven and we wanted to get rid of some of the dead hair so hopefully it would be less tangled. We did not cut the front of his hair since his bangs are now long enough they don’t tend to hang in his eyes that often and we don’t want to have to grow them out. They did trim and shape them a bit though which works with us.

So here are the pictures of Desmond getting his first hair cut at Cartoon Cuts. He decided he hated the drape and took it off, and he did try to help out the stylist by running his hands thorough his hair near hers, but I didn’t get pictures of either event.

So we went to the mall on Saturday to get Desmond’s hair cut. The first thing we saw when entering was the Merry-Go-Round, but we wanted to have lunch and get his hair cut first (pictures and such from that coming soon). So after lunch and his hair cut and a bit of crying because we weren’t letting him on the merry-go-round we let him go on it twice before heading home, where he fell asleep in the car and napped for 2 hours. Here are a few pictures of Desmond on the Merry-Go-Round with his new haircut.

And yes he has a lollipop in his mouth, he got one for being so good about his hair cut and there was no way he was not holding it/eating it.

We bought Desmond a wisk while we were there, it made him happy and quiet, and you know with a toddler those are important things.

Anyways you know you have a toddler when phrases such as “Desmond does the wisk need to go into time out because it is hitting Daddy?” come out of your mouth.

Yesterday we ran some errands that we needed to do, mainly getting various stuff we needed for the house, such as a bunch of new locks for cabinets so maybe we can keep Desmond out of them, a 3 pack of bottles for when bean arrives in case we need to feed her pumped breast milk, etc. One of our stops was at IKEA. Desmond had a blast there, the entrance to the kids area has a little slide, he must have climbed up and slide down the slide 10+ times before he was done. He really liked playing on the slide. So here he is.

So why has my son decided at 22 months that now is the time to start sucking his thumb? I mean it doesn’t bother me, it is just odd that he decided to start sucking it now.

So Desmond had his first Dentist appointment today. It went well, his teeth look good and he wasn’t too squirmy. One of his 2 year old molars has broken through, so Dan and I figure the other 3 likely won’t be much longer now. We’ll go back in 6 months and he’ll get his first cleaning then.

So Desmond went down for his nap around noon, it is now 4:15 and he is still sound asleep. I just went to check on him, just in case and he is fine just asleep. It is just kind of weird, I mean he normally naps between 90 minutes and 3 hours, he has never napped for 4+ hour before. I hope this doesn’t destroy his bedtime tonight.

*update* It ended up being a 4 and a half hour nap! Now to see how bedtime tonight goes.

I made Desmond mac and cheese for lunch today and let him eat it on the sofa rather then at the table, since he isn’t feeling good. Anyways K-line was quick to take advantage of the fact that Desmond isn’t really interested in eating right now, one of the ways we know he is sick is he isn’t eating. K-line was good and watched Desmond eat till he was done, but he was watching quite hard. I mentioned to my Mom earlier I thought he had eaten half his bowl, looking at the pictures, I think I’ll revise that estimate downwards, he ate maybe 3 or 4 spoonfuls, if that, and that is just not normal for our little bottomless pit.

Hmm maybe if I lie down they won’t notice me watching the mac and cheese…

Yay, lots of mac and cheese for me, it is mine all mine!

So yesterday Desmond took about a 15 minute nap, which we knew would be a problem later on. We weren’t surprised when he passed out around 6pm. We debated waking him up since if he falls asleep before 7 or so he normally considers it a nap not bedtime, but decided he seemed tired enough he might sleep through the night. We should have woken him up. He woke around 7 and Dan got him back down, he then woke again around 8pm and came back downstairs. Around 10:30 Dan took him back up to put him to bed, around 11:15 I came up and switched off with Dan. Around 12:15 I gave up and brought him into our room and turned Word World on for him, since he wasn’t going to sleep. Around 1:30am after I turned off Word World, he finally fell asleep.

I felt bad for Dan since he had to go into work today too so didn’t get enough sleep, though to be fair he dozed through the Word World episodes. On the plus side though, Desmond did sleep till 10am this morning. Though that is going to screw up naps and his whole schedule today too.