Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond walking on the soccer fields. He needs help because he isn’t use to his new shoes yet (you can see them in the pictures), he also isn’t quite sure of the walking on the ground thing yet either. He had fun walking with me and Dan though.

He is losing his shoe in this picture, right after it was taken he kept walking and the shoe stayed behind.

Since Desmond has an ear infection he’s on antibiotics. Since I don’t want him to get a yeast rash or other nasties we’ve been giving him a probiotic and yogurt every evening at dinner. He really enjoys playing with it and even eats a bit I think. He tends to get a bath after dinner now as well, since he is not a neat eater!

We went to visit my in-laws yesterday since Desmond hasn’t seen them since before we left for Atlanta. We all had a nice time visiting. They had gotten an Easter Basket for Desmond so here are a couple of the pictures I took of him with it.

Desmond and I went to Atlanta March 9th – 18th. It was fun, we enjoyed spending time with my parents and siblings. He got to see all his Aunts and Uncles which was nice. Anyways here are a couple of the pictures I took while there, I have a video too, but I need to upload it still.

First two are him standing and walking at my parent’s house on different days:

Next is him eating spinach ravioli at my aunt and uncle’s lake house where we stayed since my parent’s is under renovation still.

Next is him playing with an xylophone which he played with on his play date with another little baby a month older then him, who is the grand daughter of friend’s of my parent’s at the lake.

Last are a couple of pictures of him on the boat with my Mom and sleeping.

We have a first sentence. Desmond said “Hi Dog.” about 30 minutes ago. He’s been talking up a storm tonight, to bad I only understand about half of what he says.

We had some new firsts this weekend. Desmond has his first ear infection poor baby, so we are giving him antibiotics for it. They are helping and he feels much better now 1 day after starting them.

In other firsts he has real shoes now. He had Pedipeds for his naming in November and for Christmas, but they weren’t outdoor shoes really. He now has his first pair of Stride rite sneakers. He is so cute in them, though he isn’t sure on the walking in them yet. He is a size 5 extra wide right now. In related news, dang shoes for toddlers are expensive!

Since I was grabbing the car seat pictures off the camera I uploaded some other pictures as well. So here are a bunch more Desmond pictures.

So Monday I turned around and found the munckin climbing chairs. Of course being a good mother I took pictures, before telling him not to do that.

Later that evening, Dan offered me a bite of his chocolate chip cookie, Desmond decided he would like some too and grabbed a piece before DH or I could react. So here is chocolate face.

Tuesday I look and see Desmond stuck between the wall and the entertainment center, he is just small enough to fit in there, but apparently he can’t always get out. So I take some pictures and the rescue the poor baby. Yes I’m a mean mother.

Last night Desmond won’t go to sleep, so Dan took him downstairs where he promptly fell asleep sitting up. I don’t quite understand how he can sleep like this, but he seems to like it.

So we upgraded Desmond’s car seat this evening. This week the brand that we wanted to upgrade him to held their twice annual sale. Since he likely won’t last in his infant seat till September we decided to go ahead and upgrade him now. I ordered the seat on Tuesday around 10pm and it arrived this afternoon. Basically we got overnight shipping for free, yay!

Anyways here are some pictures of Desmond playing and trying out his new car seat.

First off the car seat in its box.

Desmond thought it made a nice climb toy.

Tasty straps apparently

Here is Desmond strapped in, we were checking to see if we needed to move it up to the second level for the straps, we didn’t he fits quite well in the lowest setting.

Here it is installed in the car.

I’ll try to get up a picture or two of him in the carseat in the car once we’ve put him in it.

The rest of the pictures are sort of a random collection. There is one of his face, which is just silly looking, a couple of him climbing up my scrapbooking boxes (which have since been moved), one of him sleeping, and one of him very very upset (I am mean I took a picture before comforting him).

He is a little monkey and will climb anything that he can find that will hold him. It has led to finding him in some interesting positions so far, and I am sure it will only get worse!

He will just collapse on occasion when he has worn himself down and feels like a nap, since he is happy there we normally just let him sleep where he has fallen.

See very unhappy baby. To be fair he has just hit the temper tantrum stage, so anything can upset him quickly. Fortunately it is fairly easy to make him all smiles again as well.

We also have a chair (well two) that we bought from Target, that is fairly low to the ground that Dan or I will sit on when playing the Xbox360 or Wii. Desmond likes to climb on it too now, and sit in it.