Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond swimming with his Nonnie (my Mother). He loves the pool and swimming.

While we were there we saw my Grandfather twice, I finally got a couple of newer pictures of Desmond with him. The last pictures I have of Desmond with him are from last Thanksgiving, so it was time. Anyways here is Desmond, my Dad and my Grandfather.

So we finally went to the Atlanta Aquarium and Desmond got to see the “dish” he loved them. Here are a couple of pictures of him watching the “dish”.

We’re back from Atlanta, have been since Monday actually. I got a bunch of pictures uploaded yesterday, but didn’t have time to post till today. We had a lot of fun. Desmond loved playing with his Grandpa and Nonnie. We went out to dinner with a bunch of relatives for my aunt and uncle’s 30th wedding anniversary the first night we arrived, which was nice, though late, Desmond fell asleep on the way back to the lake house and didn’t wake till morning. He did enjoy his chocolate shake though.

We had fun at the Children’s museum with a couple of people from a message board I frequent who also had babies the same time as I had Desmond. All my pictures from that came out really dark though, so I’m not putting any up. He loved the fishies at the Aquarium and it was nice spending time with my middle sister, who I don’t spend much time with. He also loved swimming a lot while we were at the lake house and going out on the boat. He wasn’t as thrilled with Grandpa for taking him down the water slide twice though. Maybe next year. All in all we had a lot of fun, though by the end Desmond was definitely missing his Daddy.

So a couple of weeks ago, before we left for Atlanta, Desmond brought me his sneakers and his doggie to put on him. Being a good Mommy I did so. Here is Desmond all dressed up in what he thinks is needed for going on a walk.

Today is our 7th anniversary. At this time 7 years ago the ceremony was over and we were partying. It was actually our second wedding, but it is the official one, the Hindi wedding wasn’t official, but was on the 3rd. We’ll be celebrating 12 years together come October, wow that seems like a long time.

Here are a couple of pictures from the wedding (I don’t have many online anymore, the server I had scanned them on died a couple of years ago).

From the Jewish Wedding on the 5th

From the Hindi Wedding on the 3rd

So yesterday after the ultrasound we went to Stride Rite since they are having a sale, and we figured we’d get the small one’s foot measured again and get him two pairs of shoes, one at his current size, if it had changed and one a half a size bigger for when his foot grows.

So we had him measured right before we went on vacation in June he was still a 5 1/2 extra wide, apparently a month and a half makes a huge difference because he is now a 6 1/2 extra wide. No wonder his sneakers and sandals were getting tough to put on him.

We ended up only getting him one pair of sneakers, rather then two, since the other pair we liked didn’t come in extra wide, his new sneakers are nice. Hopefully number 2 has a wide foot, since we now have three pairs of hardly used shoes from Desmond.

We had my first midwife appointment for the new bean yesterday. It included an ultrasound appointment. The appointment went well over all. It was hard to see the bean, though I will upload the ultrasound pictures eventually. We did see the heartbeat it is at 157 which is great. The fetal pole was measuring a week smaller then where I thought it should have been, but my dates could have been off. My due date was moved to March 16th from the 10th, which I am fine with. I actually prefer a slightly later date, since I am going to try a VBAC and having more time before the bean is due is good, since then I am likely to get less pressure about the baby being late, etc.

After the ultrasound we met with the midwife, well one of them. This is a new one to the practice, she wasn’t there two years ago when I was there with Desmond. I like her a lot, which is nice. The midwife that helped deliver Desmond is no longer there, which is a bit disappointing, she apparently got married and moved to Colorado. Anyways the midwife went over my history and her first question was, “Are you planning on a VBAC?”, which is a nice question to be asked. I told her I was and apparently I can stay with the midwife half of the practice for VBACs, which is nice, I prefer a midwife to an OB when possible.

All in all it was a good appointment, there wasn’t a problem with me going to India at 20ish weeks, and I go back for my next appointment in 6 weeks.

I realize it has been a bit since I last updated, so I took some pictures of Desmond today at Gymboree, and got around to downloading some other pictures off the camera cards. Here are a couple of pictures from this morning of Desmond at Gymboree.

Not this past Sunday, but the week before that, Sunday the 20th, we went out blueberry picking with my in-laws. Everyone had fun though it was really hot. Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond and my in-laws picking blueberries.