Desmond likes to draw, he loves using his crayons to make pictures. We also tried finger paints and paint brushes, which he isn’t as sure about. Anyways here are a bunch of pictures of him painting and drawing and some pictures of his works. Painting is a full body experience and involves both touch and tasting the paints. Which is why we don’t paint that often yet. For those wondering I am pretty sure he is a lefty, he tends to do most things with his left hand.

So Desmond loves the water, however he has found that he can climb out of the bath tub and that is even more fun then playing in the water. Here are a few pictures of the little escape artist as he escapes from taking a bath.

Here is Desmond (and K-line) walking to the park with my in-laws.

Desmond went to the park on Sunday with my in-laws here is a video of him on the swing while there.

I have a bunch of pictures of the munchkin to post, but I haven’t taken them off the camera card yet, there are some from the zoo, some from the milk festival and some of him eating a brownie. I will try to get them up tomorrow or Monday depending on how I feel with the hives and all.

So we’re thinking about making Desmond up his own big boy room, with his own big boy bed. Because honestly as much as I love him sleeping with us, we really want to get him to bed around 9 and to be able to have him sleep alone till we come to bed around midnight, and he just isn’t safe in our bed doing so (plus he wakes if I get up, but that’s another story). So we’re thinking about making K-line’s room into Desmond’s big boy room.

So we’ve been looking at furniture for it. I think we found a bunk bed we like for it, we have looked at a bunch of places, the one we like is a pretty mapleish color and has a full bed on bottom (which is something we want) and a twin for the top bunk. You can get storage drawers for the space between the bed and the floor and the dresser is nice as well. We still need to check our IKEA, but I think we’ve mostly made up our mind on getting the one we’ve already seen. Hopefully he will be able to sleep in it all alone for a few hours every night so we can get some time without Desmond, it would be kind of nice to have a few hours for just me and Dan.

We figure a bed will work better then a crib, because he hates sleeping in his crib and won’t do it, and with his own grown up bed, I can nurse him down in it and get up rather then having to try to move him and wake him up.

So I went out to the kitchen to make lunch like I do every day. While I am out there I hear the sound of a glass tipping over and hitting something (not breaking). I knew we had 2 glasses on the table, but there is no way Desmond climbed up there right? Erm wrong. So here are some picture of my little mischief maker. He uses the Green Boon Potty/step stool as a step stool so he can reach the chair, you can see it in a few of the end pictures. You can see how proud of himself he is as well. We re-enacted the scene, since at the time I couldn’t find my camera, which is why I have pictures of him climbing up, in the original instance I just looked and saw him sitting on the table.

We had blueberry pie dessert last night at my in-laws, and Desmond quite enjoyed it. See for yourself:

Dan was impressed he got blueberries on his leg, I was more impressed that he got them in his armpits:

Yes it really did take 3 people to clean him up afterwards:

We had dinner at my in-laws, and my mother in law made Jello Salad. We learned last week at my Grandmother in law’s that Desmond loves Jello, so we gave him some of the Jello Salad. It had pineapple and cottage cheese in it. Here are some pictures of Desmond eating it.

The first couple are his faces while eating cottage cheese:

He had to make sure the Jello was enjoyed by all his body parts including his hair!

Here he is enjoying his Jello salad:

Last but not least is him getting ready and licking the high chair tray so as to get as much of the Jello as he can:

Here are a couple of pictures from the visit to my in-laws that don’t really fit in any other category.

Here is Desmond, his grandfather and Dan:

Here he is trying to climb the gate to get into the kitchen: