On Sunday we went Strawberry Picking for Father’s day. When we got home my in-laws came over and we spent time with them. We all took Desmond out ot the playground to run around some, so here are some more pictures of him playing there.

So this morning Desmond was running around like a boundless ball of energy. Up the stairs, down the stairs, through the living room into the kitchen, rinse and repeat. So I decided we would go to the playground and burn off some of the energy before it got too hot. So around 11 we searched for his shoes and finally found two matching shoes that fit. I then put him in the Beco and walked to the playground, which is all of 5 minutes away or so. It was around 82F (28ish C for those who use Celsius) out so it wasn’t too bad out. When we got to the playground he ran around some and played in the sandbox, the swing and the bouncy car. The slides were a bit hot so he didn’t want to climb up them, and he had no interest in climbing up the play structures stairs either. We played for about 40 minutes and came home, where he had lunch and then was quite ready for his nap. Here are some pictures of him having fun.

Desmond likes avacados. While I don’t mind them, I don’t normally buy them, because I also don’t love them. He also likes Guacamole, so when we were grocery shopping we found a small package of Guacamole, with two packages of it in it and picked it up for him. Desmond also likes feeding himself, but still isn’t a huge fan of forks or spoons, so he tends to get a wee bit messy. Anyways here are some pictures of Desmond after his before bed snack of Guacamole.

Sitting in my high chair banging my spoons! Anyways talking of climbing, we recently reset Desmond’s chair. We took off the baby bar, but still use the straps, we also lowered the seat, since it was starting to be to high, and put the bottom piece back on. This means Desmond can now climb into his chair and sit down. Here are a couple of pictures of him doing just that last night. We keep his chair now down on it’s back so he can’t climb up on it and get into trouble.

Desmond is finally tall enough he can climb onto my computer chair, he can also climb onto Dan’s chair, with the help of the two boxes we keep over there to keep him out of the corner where Dan’s computer is. Here are a couple of pictures Dan took when he saw that Desmond could climb onto my chair.

So we love Gymboree level 4. It is working out so well, we are really glad we’ve moved up, Desmond is participating a lot more now and the class fits him so much better. Anyways here are a bunch of pictures I took at Gymboree on Saturday.

On Thursday of last week we went to the farmers market. We bought sugar snap peas, bread, jam and apples. While Dan was putting things away Desmond decided to try an apple, at which point we learned that he can eat apples without us having to slice them. They have been a huge hit with him, he loves eating an apple and carting it around with him till he is finished. After he is done, K-line is nice enough to eat the other half, apparently the dog likes apples too.

Last week we decided to play with the paint and crayons and playdoh some. So here are some more pictures of the artist as a young man.

So I went through the cameras today and pulled off all the various pictures of Desmond that I haven’t put up on the blog yet, so there are a lot of pictures coming, you have been warned. I’m going to try to go oldest to newest, but no promises.

First up are pictures of Desmond making a mess, shocking isn’t it? We aren’t closing the gate that often anymore so he has run of the house, he mainly likes to pull things out of drawers in the kitchen. Here is what I found him doing the other day, pulling all the plastic bags out of their boxes. As you can tell he is quite proud of himself.

He was just running around with one sock on playing with packages of microwave popcorn.

Now he is playing with Dan’s computer, after climbing up into his chair, still with just one sock on.