Meant to update yesterday and never got around to it, and since Andrea prodded me I’ll post now!

Desmond turned 10 months old yesterday, he is getting so big. I can’t believe he is already 10 months old. Where has my baby gone? I am starting to figure out what to do for his first birthday, eek, my baby is turning 1 soon!

Desmond has decided he loves to climb, which makes life fun. We’ve had to move the ottoman so that he isn’t constantly climbing up onto the sofa or chair (I’ll post a video when I can get it to work for more then just mac). He is fast.

He still isn’t walking, but is close, if he doesn’t realize he’s not holding on, he can stand and take steps easily, once he figures out there is no support though, he drops on his butt. I figure he’ll figure out walking any day now, but I’ve been figuring that for a month and he still hasn’t, so who knows.

I have a couple of pictures to post, some for his photo shoot last month and a couple of him bringing down the baby gate, that was fun, not!

We went to Desmond’s well baby visit today, he is doing well. He has grown 2 inches in the past 3 months and gained 2 and a half pounds. Here is a comparison of him from birth to today. He is really growing fast, only 3 more months till he is one!

At birth he was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 20 3/4 inches
At one months he was 11 pounds and 23 inches
At two months he was 14 pounds and 24 1/2 inches
At four months he was 17 pounds 13 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At 6 months he was 19 pounds 13 ounces and 27 inches
At 9 months he is 22 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches

He just took a step without any support or anything near him. He has taken a step before but it was between the ottoman and the sofa so he was pretty well protected and able to grab on. He just took a step in the middle of the floor to me! Yay Desmond now I just need to catch it on film.

Last night Desmond took a step without support! He let go of the sofa to take a step and grab onto Dan. He did it twice. Eek! It seems that my baby boy is going to be walking before long, which is a really scary thought! He is just growing so fast.

So we went to my in-laws tonight to help trim the tree, and Desmond practiced his stair climbing. I thought I’d share him climbing and yes I am very afraid.

Desmond’s favorite thing to do now is climb. he loves climbing up onto the couch at night. He has to use Daddy’s leg as a step to get up though because it is just a bit too high for him.

Here are the pictures:

Oh hi Daddy how are you?

Must keep climbing!

I think that I’ll play with the laptop now I’m up here

What happens when he doesn’t get a good foothold.

Dan just poked me to look at the baby. He apparently wore himself out. In the first picture you can see part of his favorite toy behind him, the Wii Nunchuck. I know he is only wearing one sock, but he is happy like that. I have no clue where the fish came from in the third picture, it was apparently the angle of that picture that lets you see it and not in the others, but it amuses us that it just suddenly appeared in the pictures. And yes I was a nice Mommy and put a blanket over him before the third picture.

So Desmond’s first word is: Hi, he has been saying it on and off for a week or two, but I wasn’t really sure if I was hearing him right. However, he definitely said it yesterday at the right time, and others heard him. So Desmond can say hi, when he feels like it. He is also babbling Dada, but he doesn’t say it about Dan yet, no Mama yet at all, but I’m sure that will be soon.

So Desmond now has his two front teeth just in time for Christmas, which means he has 6 teeth now. He’s been a bit fussy the past few days as the teeth came in, but hopefully he’ll be better now they have broken the skin.

He is crawling like a champ and crusing as well. He can stand alone for about 5 seconds now, so I have a feeling real walking may not be that far off. Oh and he can climb, his favorite thing to do in the evenings now is use Daddy’s leg to climb up on the sofa and then cruise around there pulling down whatever he finds. He can also climb stairs, he hasn’t gotten to do it at home yet, but he climbed up the stairs at my inlaws quite fast when we were there on Sunday. He is a very talented baby.

He’s also babbling a lot, so I figure he’ll say his first word soon, no clue what it will be yet though. He is getting so big, he is almost a toddler now, not a baby and he will turn 1 in less then 4 months eek! Time goes really fast.

I went out yesterday with my Mother in law and we took Desmond to see Santa. He had fun and we got a couple of cute pictures (which I’ll upload and share if I get around to it). It was nice going out with my Mother in Law.

I also finished the last of my holiday shopping, I found a decent gift for my Father in Law, which is good since the gift we did have was a bit lame. My mother in law also picked up a few things including a toy for Desmond.

All in all it was a nice day.