We took Desmond to the Zoo about 2 weeks ago now. We all had lots of fun and Desmond really enjoyed seeing the animals. This is the first visit we’ve taken where he stayed awake for the whole trip and saw all the animals. Here are a couple of pictures from our adventure.

Here he and Dan are looking at the Sloth Bear:

Here they are looking at one of the hippos:

Here they are looking at a Tiger:

Here are a couple of silly Desmond faces:

Desmond loves to climb so sometimes we find him in the most interesting places, like on top of the dining room table. Or in this case on top of the table next to the chair, sitting by Dan’s monitor.

So I will give Desmond some of my desert sometimes, and he really loves chocolate. Especially brownies. He feels that eating is a full body experience and these pictures show of his joy of eating his piece of brownie.

Desmond likes to draw, he loves using his crayons to make pictures. We also tried finger paints and paint brushes, which he isn’t as sure about. Anyways here are a bunch of pictures of him painting and drawing and some pictures of his works. Painting is a full body experience and involves both touch and tasting the paints. Which is why we don’t paint that often yet. For those wondering I am pretty sure he is a lefty, he tends to do most things with his left hand.

So Desmond loves the water, however he has found that he can climb out of the bath tub and that is even more fun then playing in the water. Here are a few pictures of the little escape artist as he escapes from taking a bath.

Here is Desmond (and K-line) walking to the park with my in-laws.

Desmond went to the park on Sunday with my in-laws here is a video of him on the swing while there.

I have a bunch of pictures of the munchkin to post, but I haven’t taken them off the camera card yet, there are some from the zoo, some from the milk festival and some of him eating a brownie. I will try to get them up tomorrow or Monday depending on how I feel with the hives and all.

So we’re thinking about making Desmond up his own big boy room, with his own big boy bed. Because honestly as much as I love him sleeping with us, we really want to get him to bed around 9 and to be able to have him sleep alone till we come to bed around midnight, and he just isn’t safe in our bed doing so (plus he wakes if I get up, but that’s another story). So we’re thinking about making K-line’s room into Desmond’s big boy room.

So we’ve been looking at furniture for it. I think we found a bunk bed we like for it, we have looked at a bunch of places, the one we like is a pretty mapleish color and has a full bed on bottom (which is something we want) and a twin for the top bunk. You can get storage drawers for the space between the bed and the floor and the dresser is nice as well. We still need to check our IKEA, but I think we’ve mostly made up our mind on getting the one we’ve already seen. Hopefully he will be able to sleep in it all alone for a few hours every night so we can get some time without Desmond, it would be kind of nice to have a few hours for just me and Dan.

We figure a bed will work better then a crib, because he hates sleeping in his crib and won’t do it, and with his own grown up bed, I can nurse him down in it and get up rather then having to try to move him and wake him up.

So I went out to the kitchen to make lunch like I do every day. While I am out there I hear the sound of a glass tipping over and hitting something (not breaking). I knew we had 2 glasses on the table, but there is no way Desmond climbed up there right? Erm wrong. So here are some picture of my little mischief maker. He uses the Green Boon Potty/step stool as a step stool so he can reach the chair, you can see it in a few of the end pictures. You can see how proud of himself he is as well. We re-enacted the scene, since at the time I couldn’t find my camera, which is why I have pictures of him climbing up, in the original instance I just looked and saw him sitting on the table.