So if it isn’t obvious, Desmond loves to climb, in general we let him climb all over the sofas as he likes, he is not allowed on the dining room table though and he’s not allowed on the TV stand either. He enjoys trying to get on both of these places though, the dining room table is a bit easier to keep him off of, so far since we just move the chairs. The TV stand however is low enough that he can climb right onto it. So yesterday I took a few pictures of trouble as he was behind the TV where he isn’t supose to be, then we moved him off the stand.

Looking around back here

Oh hi Mommy, it is cool back here!

Stay back I have super secret ninja moves I'll use if you get too close!

I am Desmond hear me roar!

So it is starting to get cooler here, it never even hit 80 this week, which means it is soup time! So last week we made Taco Soup (we change the recipe a bit, using ground soy instead of ground meat, and adding extra veggies and black beans instead of chili beans oh and extra spice). This was actually one of Desmond’s first foods last year and he really likes it, we really like it too especially how easy it is to make. So I took a few pictures of Desmond eating Taco soup when we had it Monday night, he really enjoyed it especially dipping the tortilla chips into it and eating them.

Taco Soup, yum!

Yum Yum

Eating Eating Eating

Enough Pictures Mom, I'm trying to eat here!

For Desmond’s birthday we bought him a wooden caterpillar. He loves this toy and has since he got it, in fact we gave it to him before his birthday because he saw it and fell in love with it and wanted to play with it now. Anyways at first he wasn’t that great pulling it and liked to have someone else walk the caterpillar for him and he’d follow along after it. Now though he loves to take Mr. Caterpillar with him when he goes out, Mr. Caterpillar loves going on walks and to the playground and upstairs and downstairs, he’s going to India in October, which we’re hoping he enjoys as well (and doesn’t get lost).

Anyways yesterday I went out on the evening walk with Desmond, K-line, Dan and Mr. Caterpillar and since I haven’t taken many pictures of Desmond in awhile, I took a bunch of pictures. That being said, they were taken with the small camera so they aren’t as good as pictures taken with the big camera, but still enjoy! Oh and there are very few of his face, he kept moving so I never got any good head on shots.

Come along Mr. Caterpillar

Close up of Desmond

Walking K-line and Mr. Caterpillar

Heading up the stairs

Hurry Up Mr. Caterpillar!

Daddy helps Desmond up the steep hill

Up a hill with a caterpillar

Oh hi Mommy, I have a caterpillar

Hair in the eyes

Wonder what's over there

Wandering around the soccer fields

Caught by Daddy!

Down please?

Seriously it is 10pm, he is normally out by 8:30 at the latest, he is still wide awake and wandering around downstairs, he isn’t even lying down quietly and watching Finding Nemo, nope he is wandering around the living room happily playing.  Go to bed child!

So we have been pretty sure that Desmond’s foot has grown in the past few weeks, but we were trying to hold out a bit longer before getting him new shoes, so he won’t outgrow them before INdia (he likes to outgrow his shoes in about a month).   Today we put on his sneakers and decided we couldn’t really wait the extra 4 weeks he needed new shoes.   So off to Stride Rite we went.   He got measured and is now a size 7 extra wide.  We decided to try him in size 71/2 in an attempt to get his shoes to last through India (I can dream right?).  he 7 1/2s fit him quite well, so he is now wearing size 7 1/2shoes.

Did you know that the shoes move from baby toddlers to big kids shoes right around size 7!  Yep they do, so the short one is basically now wearing big kid shoes rather then toddler shoes, you know the ones where you have a choice to get real shoe laces to tie (I think we’ll wait a bit on those).

We also bought him socks while we were at the store because he only has 3 pairs that fit his big feet at this point.   So now he has new shoes, I’m just hoping he doesn’t outgrow them before October 20th.

So the Thursday before we went to Atlanta, Desmond and I spent the day at my in-laws while Dan was at work.  I was told that Dad (my father in law) wanted to take us to Wheaton Regional, to which I finally had to ask Dan, Wheaton Regional what?  Turns out it is a nice park about 2 miles up the road from my in-law’s house.  So Desmond, my Father in Law and I went to the park.  They had both a carousel and a train that the kids could ride on.  So my father in law bought tickets, and we took Desmond on both of them.  He had a ton of fun, he loves the carousel and enjoyed the train ride, we might have taken him on the carousel a second time, but it started raining so we headed out for lunch.  Anyways we had a great time and here are a couple of pictures I took of Desmond enjoying himself.

Weeee!

Let's go round and round and round

Dang it Mommy I want to sit and enjoy the ride, snap the picture already!

Much Better

Okay so the history behind this pictures is on one of the message boards I frequent we do little contests, and one of them was guess the baby. So to make sure no one guessed Desmond I put him in a dress, I also put diapers in the corner of the pictures and put him in his crib, which he never uses, just to confuse even more. Anyways here are three pictures of Desmond pretending not to be himself, okay the third one he is being himself, I didn’t use that one in the guess the baby name. The first one was the main picture and the second one was the clue.

Desmond hiding

Desmond's side

He is all boy even in a dress

We also took him to the playground while we were at the lake house and he had a great time with Nonnie (I took pictures, Nonnie went down the slide with him and without). When he goes down slides on his own he tends to come down feet first on his tummy.

We went out on the boat and Desmond had fun, he got to drive the boat, since he is old now. Doesn’t everyone let their 16 month old drive a boat? My Dad helped him while he was steering.

Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond swimming with his Nonnie (my Mother). He loves the pool and swimming.