Here are a couple of pictures of Desmond examining a Dogwood’s flowers with my Mother in Law:

We went over my in-laws yesterday, had a great time. Since it was a nice day out my mother in law and I took Desmond outside while Dan and his Dad went out to pick up a new lawnmower, they couldn’t fit it in their car, so we used our Matrix. Anyways here are some of pictures from the yard.

Here are a couple of him with my Mother in Law:

Here are some of him exploring:

Here are a couple of him walking, he is getting much better at walking outside:

Here he is playing with some sticks:

This evening we took our normal walk with K-line to the lake. This time be brought the camera though, so I took a bunch of pictures of Desmond walking around and crossing the bridge.

Here are a few pictures of him sitting in the grass:

Here he is standing up:

Here he is walking, he had some help from Daddy in one of the pictures:

In this picture he looks like he is marching:

Here he is pointing at things for us to see:

Here he is on the pathway:

Here are some pictures of him on the bridge and crossing it.

Last night or the night before, I think it was Wednesday night. I looked over and saw Desmond had somehow gotten himself stuck in the Duplo box. So being a good Mommy I went ahead and took pictures rather then helping him to get out.

So I decided to let Desmond play with the crayons again today to see if he wanted to draw rather then eat them. Silly me, he likes eating them. Here are a bunch of unhappy Desmond pictures. In the first few he is getting over his upset because I gave him back a crayon to play with. In the second set he is very unhappy because I won’t give him a crayon anymore, since he’d had his wax allowance for the day.

He isn’t big on drawing on the paper, but his leg and shirt are good surfaces to draw on.

Here are the second very unhappy set of pictures. He is so cute when he’s crying.

You can see the crayon in his mouth in this one.

I love his lips in this one.

Enough pictures Mommy! Talk to the hand.

So Sunday evening after getting out of the diaper basket, Desmond decided to push the ottoman over so he could get up in the rocking chair. Here are a couple of the pictures we took of him there.

I love this picture of him. He sort of looks like a zombie!

We went to Desmond’s 1 year check up today. He is doing great, we finished filling out the developmental milestone sheet, only problem with that is we don’t get a new one till he is 2, since that sheet is for 9 months to 24 months. Oh well at least we know he is developing well.

He had one shot, his DTaP and didn’t seem to mind it. We’ll get him another shot at his 15 month appointment. Based on our plans for his delayed shot schedule he should be caught up to all the vaccines we plan to get him by the time he’s 3. I bet that will make his pediatrician happy at least (you can see her squirm about us delaying).

His growth has slowed some, but that is expected he grew an inch since his 9 month appointment and gained a pound and 5 ounces. He is in the 50thpercentile for weight now and the 75th percentile for height. He is in the 80th percentile for head circumference (48cm).

Now for the stats from birth to 1:

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 is 23 pounds 8 ounces and 30 inches

So he’s gained 15 pounds and 14 ounces in a year, almost exactly tripling his birth weight (he is 2 ounces over tripling). He’s also grown 9 and 1/4th inches. So he had a great first year and gained weight and height quite nicely. We are extremely pleased. Now to see how much he grows in his second year of life.

So after the party at home Desmond decided to climb into his diaper box. Here are some pictures of him in it. He later climbed up onto the rocking chair, but I haven’t gotten those pictures off the camera yet. He was very mischievous last night though.

First are a couple of closeups of him:

Now the in the basket pictures:

So yesterday we went to my Grandmother in law’s apartment for a second birthday party for Desmond. Most of Dan’s (all but his parents) we’re able to make his party so we held something on Sunday instead. We also celebrated my Grandmother in law’s 81st birthday. We went out to eat lunch at a Chinese Buffet. It was fun and we enjoyed it, so here are the pictures from the party.

First is him opening presents:

Next is him playing with them:

Here he is with the cake (and his cupcake):

And here he is with his Great-Grandmother:

Here are some of the pictures we took at Desmond’s birthday party. For some reason our good camera was acting up, either over or underexposing the picture so we didn’t get that many pictures (even though we took a ton). Here are the ones that I liked out of the ones that seemed to come out decently.

On the way to the party:

Opening presents:

Cake!:

After cake (or Wow is he a mess!):

And last are 2 pictures of Desmond, me, my Mom and my Grandmother (note I didn’t say they were good pictures):