So this weekend we’re working on clearing out the nursery, and doing some toddler proofing.   We figure we won’t actually need the nursery, we never did with Desmond, but we figured it would be nice to have it ready if we do end up using it.  Since Friday is the day my in-laws watch after Desmond for me, which is really nice, I decided to start early.   So I emptied out the dresser of all of Desmond’s clothes from this summer and grabbed the ones in his closet as well.

I then went and boxed them all up for the attic, and can I say the boy has a lot of clothes!   All the summer 24 month and 2T clothes are now boxed though as are last years winter 18 month clothes.  I just need to figure out if there is a box with room in the attic for the couple of summer 18 month stuff I have or if I need to make a new box for it.

All the newborn and 0-3 month clothes are also now in the dresser.  I noticed that most of the newborn clothes are fairly boyish and most of the 0-3 stuff is fairly gender neutral, and then I remembered why.  We bought almost all 0-3 stuff before we knew if Desmond was a boy or a girl and we actually bought most of the newborn stuff after he was born and we found he fit in it better then the 0-3 stuff at least for the first 2 weeks or so.  I’ll have to take it all out and wash it before baby gets here, but for now at least it is put away and ready for her.   I also noted I have 1 dress for her in newborn size and 1 in 0-3 size, but I figure I’ll end up with a few more as gifts and if not I’m sure she’ll end up with a ton in 3-6 month and up clothes, since it is a  girl and I can’t see my Mom resisting buying her the cute little baby dresses *grin*, I can’t see me resisting it either.

We use cloth diapers with Desmond and plan to do the same with bean when she arrives.  So in the beginning of November I went through the newborn/small sized diapers we had from Desmond to see what we had and what we needed.  We didn’t start using cloth with Desmond till he was around 3 weeks old and he grew so fast he was out of newborn/small diapers fairly fast.  So we had some, but we were a bit lacking in the smaller sizes.

So Dan and I agreed that we probably needed about a dozen more diapers to have enough newborn/small diapers.  We figured we’d get the same person who has done all of Desmond’s current daytime diapers to make them up for us.  Tammy at Tinkle Trap, who rocks fyi.   A couple of days before Christmas the 21st I e-mailed her to get a slot.  I figured she would get to them sometime mid-January or so.  She e-mailed me right back and apparently started working on them immediately.  So she finished them on the 27th and shipped them out on the 29th.   We weren’t expecting quite that fast of service, but it was great.  Anyways the arrived last night.  They are so tiny.

Desmond was playing with them trying to figure out what they were for, since they definately are not diapers for him!  It was fun watching him take them out of the box try to figure out what to do with them and then discarding them as defective because they didn’t work right.

Anyways I figured I’d post a comparision between the newborn diapers and Desmond’s current diapers.   They are just so small and cute!

Diapers on Top of each other

side by side comparision

The three diapers open on top of each other to see the size difference.

Side by Side look with them open

Comparision between the India diaper and the newborn diaper

The 4 styles of the new diapers

So one of Desmond’s favorite things to do is to make me get on Starfall.com for him and go through the letters, we do it a couple of times a week normally.  So earlier this week I was doing the letter J, which he can’t realy pronounce by the way, and at the end of the letter J is a little activity where you put 4 letters together to get jump.

So I got to that page and Desmond looked at it, at the bottom it says J U M P and you put the letters in to spell the word, and say Ju Uh Mmm Ph, Ump!  and then tried to jump.  I wasn’t really expecting him to decode and make word quite yet, eek!  I mean I know he knows all his letters, even if he can’t pronounce them, but I wasn’t expecting the reading and decoding piece to put the letters together to make a word.

We’ve started doing both letters and the learn to read section on Starfall.com though for him and he seems quite pleased to be seeing letters combined to make words.  Now if only he could get his mouth to make a few more sounds so he could speak a bit clearer.

So we joined Lifetime Fitness on Christmas Eve. We had been debating joining a fitness club for Desmond for awhile. So we decided to look at the two in the area about a week before Christmas and see what we thought. We loved Lifetime, the pool was wonderful and the child’s area looked decent, though we didn’t get a good look at it. the price however was a bit higher then we wanted to spend. So we looked at the Columbia Association, we had joined Columbia before, so we sort of remembered it. We really liked the guy who gave us a tour, however we were less then impressed by the pool, equipment and child’s area, we did like the price better though.

So we debated, and decided to check out Lifetime again and get a good tour of the child’s area. We went in and saw it again and decided that it was worth it, even if it was a bit more then we really wanted to spend a month. So we joined up. On Saturday and Sunday we took Desmond to the pool to go swimming, the main reason we signed up. He was so happy, he loved playing and swimming in the water, he is fairly good at kicking his legs too, though he needs to work on keeping his mouth closed when going under the water. He had a ton of fun, so it looks like it was a good choice. Maybe next time we go we’ll let him try out the kid’s club as well, though I think he would just be happy if we took him swimming every day or two.

I took this year involved Desmond opening present. Yep no Menorah, no hanging with family, just the child opening presents. I will post them though, just because he is cute opening presents. It is one of his new favorite things to do, to bad that Hanukkah and Christmas are over so he has to wait till his birthday to open any more. I’d say he was a poor deprived child, but I saw what he got as his presents, in fact I bought him most of them, so I can’t because he isn’t.

So Desmond loves to open the oven, we have a lock on the lower one, but the upper one’s lock didn’t end up sticking and he broke it. He loves to open the oven and put stuff in it, so we have to be careful to check it before we cook anything.

This evening there were 2 shoes with socks, a plate, a bowl, a plastic dulpo dinosaur egg and a pot holder in the oven. It is interesting to try to figure out how a toddler’s mind works sometimes. Though sometimes it is easier to just shake your head and laugh.

He is now quite good at clicking his tongue to the top of his mouth. Thanks a lot Mom!

Here are the last of the frosting pictures. He had quite a bit of fun, and quite a bit of sugar when all was said and done.

I think he wants this to be a daily activity.

Desmond wanted to make sure he enjoyed every drop of his frosting.

Here are some of him enjoying his sugar.