Here are some of him enjoying his sugar.

So on Saturday I made sugar cookies, and gingerbread cookies and another kind of cookie, but the sugar cookies are the important ones. I figured Desmond could “help” me frost them on Sunday. So our big activity Sunday was feeding the child sugar, I mean having Desmond help me frost cookies. There are a ton of pictures of him helping, so here are the first few, including the few where he actually does frost the cookies rather then eat the frosting.

So yesterday, after frosting/eating the frosting of the cookies. We look up and Desmond is playing with his potty. We’ve had it for awhile and leave it out for him to explore so he can get use to it. He decided yesterday to sit in it though and go. I don’t think he is quite ready for potty training though.

So Dan is getting Desmond a snack and he’s complaining because it isn’t instantaneous. So Dan says, “Give me a second Des.” To which Desmond responds with “one. two.” and walks off.

We have Rockband and Desmond loves playing with the guitar for it. So my Mom got him his own little guitar for Hanukkah which he really likes as well. Dan’s big present this year is also Rockband 2 with all the instruments and Desmond loves the drums. So he plays them as much as he can. He really loves hitting the pad with his drum sticks, we need to pick up a child’s size drum sticks too. I think I’m going to need to find him music lessons sooner rather then later, he really loves playing with music, and playing the piano whenever he can find one, and he’s actually fairly good for a toddler just hitting random notes. Anyways here are a bunch of pictures of Desmond playing the various Rockband instruments and his guitar.

On Saturday the 13th my parents were in town and we went down to Richmond with them and Noah to see my Grandparents. We took a couple of pictures of Desmond with both my Grandfather and Grandmother. The pictures with my Grandfather came out decently, Desmond won’t stay still for any of the pictures with my Grandmother though. I give you Desmond and my Grandparents.

My favorite picture of the set, Desmond is trying to steal Mommom’s glasses!

We have two Lazy Susan’s in our kitchen to put away things on. Desmond has however claimed one of them for himself, he seems to think it makes a very nice fort.

Okay so I’ve been putting off getting the three hour blood glucose test for awhile now (like 2+ months). I finally did it yesterday before my appointment today, and I passed! I passed! I passed! So I don’t have GD this pregnancy, yay!

Bean apparently decided around 2am this morning that she wanted to and punch me a lot. In fact so much that she hasn’t stopped yet 12 hours later. She is being very active today. Normally I feel here a couple of times a day, today there have only been a couple of times I haven’t felt her.

In other news we’ve come up with our name for her. Which I’m not sharing on my blog. While we were in Atlanta she did pick up a nickname, well two, Gigi from most of my family and Esmeralda from my Grandfather. The nicknames have absolutely no relation to what we hope her name will be. In fact the name we have chosen starts with neither G or E, though we do have a G and E name chosen just in case we need them.

So yesterday Desmond did not want to take his nap. Which is a bit of a pain since he still really needs it, and when he doesn’t take it he normally falls asleep sometime between 5 and 6 and is up again at 8 or so till midnight. He won’t go down though, so around 6pm, after dinner he was sitting in Dan’s lap and was out. We figured it was going to be a long night, but we went ahead and put him in a night diaper and longies and up to bed. We figured he’d come back down by 8pm or so.

8pm comes and passes no Desmond, huh, okay maybe he did go down for the night, but since he went so early he’ll probably be up by 4am at the latest. So Dan and I head to bed around 10pm. Dan goes to sleep with Desmond, since he tends to sleep longer if he is sleeping with someone. At 6:30am Dan’s alarm goes off, Desmond is still asleep. Umm wow, Dan gets ready for work and leaves around 7:20 like always. About 7:45 Desmond comes into our bedroom and gets in bed to snuggle with me, he is wide awake. So we get up. That was almost 14 hours of sleep, he must have really been tired.

Dan and I are still both shocked and figure it is unlikely to happen again, but we’ll take what sleep we can get from shortie.