So after the party at home Desmond decided to climb into his diaper box. Here are some pictures of him in it. He later climbed up onto the rocking chair, but I haven’t gotten those pictures off the camera yet. He was very mischievous last night though.

First are a couple of closeups of him:

Now the in the basket pictures:

So yesterday we went to my Grandmother in law’s apartment for a second birthday party for Desmond. Most of Dan’s (all but his parents) we’re able to make his party so we held something on Sunday instead. We also celebrated my Grandmother in law’s 81st birthday. We went out to eat lunch at a Chinese Buffet. It was fun and we enjoyed it, so here are the pictures from the party.

First is him opening presents:

Next is him playing with them:

Here he is with the cake (and his cupcake):

And here he is with his Great-Grandmother:

Here are some of the pictures we took at Desmond’s birthday party. For some reason our good camera was acting up, either over or underexposing the picture so we didn’t get that many pictures (even though we took a ton). Here are the ones that I liked out of the ones that seemed to come out decently.

On the way to the party:

Opening presents:

Cake!:

After cake (or Wow is he a mess!):

And last are 2 pictures of Desmond, me, my Mom and my Grandmother (note I didn’t say they were good pictures):

Happy first birthday baby boy!

I’ll post pictures from his party when we get home.

Wow that went fast. It is really hard to believe that I was in labor with him at this time last year. The year has gone so fast. I find it difficult to believe how fast he’s grown in only year. He went from a baby who was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 21 inches to a toddler who is around 24 pounds and 31 inches (not positive on measurements since we don’t see the doctor till the 14th).

He has gone from a baby that slept, ate and pooped (and peed) to a little boy who eats, sleeps, poops (and pees), but also plays by himself, walks, chases the dog, talks, manipulates his environment to meet his needs (such as moving his walker to the chair and using it to climb up), claps, laughs, shares his toys and food (if we want it or not), and flirts with everyone he sees. It is just weird to see all these changes in him in one year. He is growing up so fast, and it is really strange since a year seems a lot longer then it really is.

In picture form he has gone from this:

to this:

In the blink of an eye. We have his birthday party tomorrow, I am sure it will be lots of fun. I’ll post pictures from it when I get them up. It is just weird to think that my little baby is already 1 (or will be in under 12 hours).

On Sunday we went to the photo place and got Desmond’s one year photos done. We’ve been going there since he was a newborn. Apparently there has been a recent management change and our photographer (yes we had a photographer who always took his pictures) is gone. We like his one year pictures, but are thinking that for his 18 months photos we might try the other place in the mall, not sure yet, but I think we likely will.

Anyways here are Desmond’s one year pictures the Sunday before he turns 1 (he is 1 this Saturday eek!).

The last step Desmond really needed to be an independent walker was the ability to get up from the middle of the floor rather then having to crawl over to something to pull himself up. He has officially hit that milestone now, he can get up to standing from the middle of the floor. We figured he would figure it out soon since he’s been able to bend down and pick something up for awhile now. It seems to have clicked though and he’s been doing it all morning/afternoon now.

In other cute Desmond stuff, he brings me a clean diaper when he wants to be changed about 80% of the time now, which is nice.

Here are a couple of close up pictures I took of Desmond while we were out today. I think they came out nice. He looks like such a little toddler now instead of a baby. Where has time gone, he’ll be 1 in 2 weeks (eek!).

Here are a couple of cute pictures of Desmond clapping while we were at the soccer fields.

This is my favorite picture of him clapping, it is just a great picture.

Here are a couple of pictures from the soccer fields. One of them is Desmond’s on my back in a carrier (which is how we brought him to the fields). The other three are him sitting in the fields.