So Desmond is in Gymboree we go once or twice a week, we have a lot of make sessions that lets us get that second session in, he has been going since he was 4 months old or so and in level 1, we moved to level 2 at 5 months and level 3 at 8 months (normally it is level 1: newborn to 6 months, level 2: 6 to 10 months, level 3: 10 to 16 months) anyways we are moving up to level 4 at 14 months. The class he is in is really crowded and he is past the level they are at, and we have had a bunch of new babies in the class so the class is now skewed towards the younger end of the age range, which changes the dynamics a lot, since he is no where near the lower end of the spectrum in the class.

For instance today’s activities focused on walking. Desmond has been walking well for the past 4 months, so it was kind of pointless. Plus he really isn’t fond of having between 12 and 15 other kids in the class, we prefer about 8 in the class. I talked to his teacher today and she agreed that he is ready, so tomorrow we’re going to try out the level 4 Gymboree class and see if what we think, we’ll probably move up, though I am not sure if we’re going to do the Friday 10:30 class or the Tuesday 10:30 class, I know we aren’t going to the 9:30 classes since he is barely awake then, just need to decide if Tuesday or Friday works better for us overall.

So we are moving up in the world and in Gymboree, it should be fun.

Okay the listing the words he knows post was not really a brag, despite what my Mom says (hi Mom!). And I should probably add some of his new words in as well, he’s gained a good dozen since that post, but anyways, this post is a brag.

Desmond recognizes the letter D. If you ask him where the D is he will pull out the right alphabet letter from his bath letters. He will also point it out in books, which is when I first realized he knew it, he pointed to a D in one of his books and said D. He will also just randomly pick up his alphabet D and hold it up and say D.

I think he may recognize S and E as well, but I know he recognizes D, how cool is that!

So that mom is a real brag, at under 14 months old Desmond knows the letter D!

So we went to the Aquarium today with Noah, we had invited Clare along too but she was out of town. We had fun and Desmond loved looking at the “dish” (fish). We didn’t spend a ton of time, since Desmond is only 14 months, but he does enjoy the “dish”. It makes the season passes nice though, since we tend to only spend an hour or two in the aquarium before he is done, and if we had to buy $20 tickets each time Desmond won’t get to see “dish” that often. After the aquarium we went to 5 guys since Noah had heard good things about them. Both of us were less them impressed, Dan and Desmond’s thoughts don’t really count here. They were decent, but they weren’t the amazingness that Noah had been lead to believe or that I had heard they were. Oh well it was a nice lunch still. Anyways here are some pictures from the Aquarium.

Desmond loves the water, he really likes playing in. Here are a bunch of pictures from earlier this week when he was playing with water in our yard. Some are from his water table he got for his birthday and the rest are from him playing a big clear container filled with water.

Here is the small one playing in my in-law’s fridge, he decided he liked it in there.

My in-laws have a bunch of trees, and one of the ones in their front yard is just about the right height for mister monkey to climb. Here are a couple of the pictures I took of him in the tree (he was spotted by my in-laws at all times).

Desmond loves water. He loves splashing in water, in fact the main reason we still don’t let him in the kitchen most of the time is because he will head right to K-line’s water bowl and splash in it. He’ll also try to eat K-line’s food, but he is more likely to splash in his water. Anyways when we were at my in-laws Desmond played with thier bird bath, and got quite wet, the bird bath got quite a bit emptier as well.

I’ve been meaning to get these pictures up for awhile, but well Desmond likes to turn off my computer where I download and edit my photos for the web, so it has taken a bit to get them ready. Anyways these are pictures from last Sunday, we went over my in-laws and had a nice Barbecue with them, and Noah and Clare. Noah and Clare took some of these pictures I think, since they were enjoying playing with the DSLR. Anyways here are some of the pictures from the day.

Here is Clare

Here are Noah and Desmond

Here is me holding the boy in his favorite position, upside down.

Here are a couple of Dan and Desmond shucking corn

Here is Desmond playing with Dadi’s (my mother in law) Iced Tea

And here is Desmond patting his head while standing on Dada’s (my father in law) lap.

Here is K-line

This morning we took Desmond out to the pick your own farm. It was the opening of their season. They just had strawberries available today, but he was quite happy with that. He loved walking down the aisles with the strawberries and picking them off the bush to eat. He had a lot of fun, and we ended up picking 11 pounds of strawberries. Hopefully that will last us for awhile. Anyways here are a lot of pictures from our adventure. I’ve split the pictures into numerous posts so it isn’t so overwhelming. The first picture here is Dan showing Desmond a strawberry. The rest in this post are Desmond playing and eating the first strawberry he got.

Here are pictures of Desmond eating a strawberry. He loves to eat them fresh.