Here are some pictures of Desmond from Gymboree. I took this on the Sunday before we left for India, they now offer a Sunday class which was nice and uncrowded with only 5 children.

I have a cone for a hat!

The cone is so me!

Weeee! Again, again, I'm flying!

Upside Down Toddler!

Sometimes Desmond likes to think inside the box!

I am going to be a basketball star

I'll just lie here

Desmond likes to climb, I’ve mentioned it before. He also knows how to pull out the dining room chairs now. So Dan left his computer up and running and his chair pushed in while he went to do something. He came back to see this.

Desmond happily typing away on his computer, with the chair pulled out.

Today is my Mom’s birthday, so even though we’re in India, I pre-set this post to wish her Happy Birthday. I hope you have a great one, and I won’t even share your age, aren’t I a great daughter *grin*.

Anyways Happy Birthday Mom from me, Desmond, Dan, K-line and the bean!

Desmond likes M&Ms, actually he likes chocolate, a lot. So I will let him have one or two when he asks for them once or twice a day. I figure that he is so active that 5 or so M&Ms a day isn’t doing him any harm. I do have to say though that I never realized how much mess 1 M&M could make until I had a toddler and gave him one.

There is more chocolate on my arms!

I like chocolate!

So one of the cool things about the blog is you can delay posts to come out when you schedule them too. I have a couple of pictures of Desmond and I figure if I can’t get on while I’m in India I’ll set it up so that there are a couple of days when I’m gone when the pictures of him will go up. So I’ve made a couple of posts with Desmond pictures that will go up while we’re gone, so you can get your cute toddler fix.

When we went to Target today to get a couple of things we needed Desmond found a pair of sunglasses he wanted so we went ahead and got them for him. He is modeling them in the car, he quite likes his yoda sunglasses, though not enough to keep them on more then 10 minutes or so.

Let me just fix them so they are in the right spot

What are you looking at Mommy?

I am just so cool!

Desmond had his 18 month appointment today. It went well, he is 50% for weight and around 75% for height and somewhere between 50 and 75% for head circumference. He has grown quite a bit since his last appointment. He was 26 pounds clothed without shoes today and 33 inches. He was wearing shorts and a t-shirt so he is probably right around 25 pound 4 ounces to 25 pounds 8 ounces without clothes on. He gained around 2 inches and right around 2 pounds since his last appointment 3 months ago, we knew he had had a growth spurt and his new weight and height just confirm it.

His appointment went well and we were in and out quickly. His doctor has no concerns about him.

Anyways here are his stats from birth to now.
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 was 22 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches
At 1 year (12 months) he was 23 pounds 8 ounces and 30 inches
At 15 months was 23 pounds 10 ounces and 31 inches
At 18 months he is 26 pounds and 33 inches

So Tuesday morning is normally Gymboree day with Desmond, but my natural parenting group was having a play date today at the park across the street from us, so we decided to go to the playground instead of Gymboree, since we can make up Gymboree tomorrow or Thursday.

So we walked over to the playground and met some other mamas and their kids, and Desmond enjoyed playing and running around with the other kids. All and all it was a good play date. We didn’t stay the full 2 hours though, because Desmond started getting grumpy around 11:15 even with a snack so we headed home for lunch and nap. It was a lot of fun though so we’ll probably try to make the next one as well, especially if it is at the playground.

Happy quarter of a century Nancy and Noah! Hope you both have a great day.

So we’ve been planning to take Desmond to the Zoo for the past month/month and a half, it just kept never working out due to other plans or bad weather, etc. Yesterday we ended up with the perfect day so we packed up Desmond and headed to the metro to go visit the zoo. He had fun there and it definitely wore him out.

We started our journey with a ride on the metro. Desmond rode on Dan’s back for this part.

Once we arrived at our stop, we got out and went to California Tortilla for lunch before walking to the zoo. Once we got to the zoo we headed down the Asian trail and saw a bear!

We then headed on and saw a spotted leopard, and the giant pandas, I didn’t get any pictures because there were too many people there to get good ones. We continued on our way and stopped to see the Elephants.

Desmond liked to look around, but he tended to look more at me, or away from the animals, then at the animals.

We continued on and saw the hippo in his pond. He’s all the way in the back. We’ll miss the hippo, the zoo is getting rid of their hippos because of the new elephant trails, we have always enjoyed seeing the hippos though.

Desmond then wanted down to run around, so we took him off Dan’s back and he took Dan’s hand and started walking with him.

We then found a water fountain and so Desmond decided he needed a drink.

He also decided it had been over an hour since lunch so he was hungry. We stopped at an area with picnic tables and he had an apple and some water.

We then continued on our way and walked to the lions and tigers! Desmond decided it was time for another rest, so he sat down.

We then headed into the area with the lions and tigers and Desmond got to see the big cats. First we saw the tiger.

Then we saw the lion.

After seeing the cats Desmond was basically done. I remembered there was a play area right where we were so we went over to the prairie dog play area and Desmond climb around a bit.

We then headed towards the front of the zoo and the metro. We did stop and see a monkey, we couldn’t find the golden tamarin trail though, we think the elephant trail construction may have closed the area down. We also saw the zebras and had ice cream on our way out. By the time we got to the metro, Desmond was all worn out. He had a nice nap on the metro back to our car.

We had a nice day at the zoo and it was fun watching Desmond watch the animals, he was much more into the animals now then he was when we went in April and definitely a lot more into them then when we went last year.