Desmond is finally tall enough he can climb onto my computer chair, he can also climb onto Dan’s chair, with the help of the two boxes we keep over there to keep him out of the corner where Dan’s computer is. Here are a couple of pictures Dan took when he saw that Desmond could climb onto my chair.

So we love Gymboree level 4. It is working out so well, we are really glad we’ve moved up, Desmond is participating a lot more now and the class fits him so much better. Anyways here are a bunch of pictures I took at Gymboree on Saturday.

On Thursday of last week we went to the farmers market. We bought sugar snap peas, bread, jam and apples. While Dan was putting things away Desmond decided to try an apple, at which point we learned that he can eat apples without us having to slice them. They have been a huge hit with him, he loves eating an apple and carting it around with him till he is finished. After he is done, K-line is nice enough to eat the other half, apparently the dog likes apples too.

Last week we decided to play with the paint and crayons and playdoh some. So here are some more pictures of the artist as a young man.

So I went through the cameras today and pulled off all the various pictures of Desmond that I haven’t put up on the blog yet, so there are a lot of pictures coming, you have been warned. I’m going to try to go oldest to newest, but no promises.

First up are pictures of Desmond making a mess, shocking isn’t it? We aren’t closing the gate that often anymore so he has run of the house, he mainly likes to pull things out of drawers in the kitchen. Here is what I found him doing the other day, pulling all the plastic bags out of their boxes. As you can tell he is quite proud of himself.

He was just running around with one sock on playing with packages of microwave popcorn.

Now he is playing with Dan’s computer, after climbing up into his chair, still with just one sock on.

So Desmond is in Gymboree we go once or twice a week, we have a lot of make sessions that lets us get that second session in, he has been going since he was 4 months old or so and in level 1, we moved to level 2 at 5 months and level 3 at 8 months (normally it is level 1: newborn to 6 months, level 2: 6 to 10 months, level 3: 10 to 16 months) anyways we are moving up to level 4 at 14 months. The class he is in is really crowded and he is past the level they are at, and we have had a bunch of new babies in the class so the class is now skewed towards the younger end of the age range, which changes the dynamics a lot, since he is no where near the lower end of the spectrum in the class.

For instance today’s activities focused on walking. Desmond has been walking well for the past 4 months, so it was kind of pointless. Plus he really isn’t fond of having between 12 and 15 other kids in the class, we prefer about 8 in the class. I talked to his teacher today and she agreed that he is ready, so tomorrow we’re going to try out the level 4 Gymboree class and see if what we think, we’ll probably move up, though I am not sure if we’re going to do the Friday 10:30 class or the Tuesday 10:30 class, I know we aren’t going to the 9:30 classes since he is barely awake then, just need to decide if Tuesday or Friday works better for us overall.

So we are moving up in the world and in Gymboree, it should be fun.

Okay the listing the words he knows post was not really a brag, despite what my Mom says (hi Mom!). And I should probably add some of his new words in as well, he’s gained a good dozen since that post, but anyways, this post is a brag.

Desmond recognizes the letter D. If you ask him where the D is he will pull out the right alphabet letter from his bath letters. He will also point it out in books, which is when I first realized he knew it, he pointed to a D in one of his books and said D. He will also just randomly pick up his alphabet D and hold it up and say D.

I think he may recognize S and E as well, but I know he recognizes D, how cool is that!

So that mom is a real brag, at under 14 months old Desmond knows the letter D!

So we went to the Aquarium today with Noah, we had invited Clare along too but she was out of town. We had fun and Desmond loved looking at the “dish” (fish). We didn’t spend a ton of time, since Desmond is only 14 months, but he does enjoy the “dish”. It makes the season passes nice though, since we tend to only spend an hour or two in the aquarium before he is done, and if we had to buy $20 tickets each time Desmond won’t get to see “dish” that often. After the aquarium we went to 5 guys since Noah had heard good things about them. Both of us were less them impressed, Dan and Desmond’s thoughts don’t really count here. They were decent, but they weren’t the amazingness that Noah had been lead to believe or that I had heard they were. Oh well it was a nice lunch still. Anyways here are some pictures from the Aquarium.

Desmond loves the water, he really likes playing in. Here are a bunch of pictures from earlier this week when he was playing with water in our yard. Some are from his water table he got for his birthday and the rest are from him playing a big clear container filled with water.