Here are some more pictures of Desmond at the pick your own Strawberry farm.

Here are some pictures of Desmond on the way home from Strawberry picking, apparently picking strawberries wears out an active toddler.

So last weekend we went to Connecticut for Noah and Clare’s graduation. One of the suitcases was full of his diapers and we put it in the living room when we got home since it still had some clean diapers, anyways Desmond has enjoyed climbing in and out of it all week long. Here are some pictures of him doing so.

So I have a bunch of new pictures of Desmond to put up, I’ll start with the oldest and work forward. These are from earlier this week when we ate Tacos. We gave Desmond his own and he ate quite a bit of it, as well as eating part of our hard shells.

We went up to Connecticut this past weekend to watch Noah Graduate from college (his girlfriend Clare as well). It was a nice time, though Desmond is quite opposed to 7 hour car rides and made sure to let us know it for part of both the ride up and back.

It was nice though, Laura and Miles even came, so we saw all my family. Grandpa was there as well, which was great, I am glad that Desmond gets to meet his great grandfather even if he may not ever remember it.

Noah should be in Maryland now, I need to call him and see if he wants to come to my in-laws for a memorial day cookout. I’ll do that tonight or tomorrow, I believe he has a job interview tomorrow, which he will hopefully get. If he gets it he will be working around 10 miles from here so very close, which would be nice.

Nothing much else is going on right now, we had a nice time and saw Noah and Clare graduate, which was great. We did meet up from someone from one of my message boards who has a daughter the same age as Desmond and that was fun as well, I’ll try to put up a few pictures in the next few days.

Desmond talks a lot at 13 months and has a bunch of words, he is also talking in two and three word phrases once or twice a day now. I just want to list the words he knows so I have a list if I need it, I am sure I will forget some in this list, but that’s okay I’ll just add them later. I always feel bad listing things like this because he is a bit ahead of the milestones and it just seems like bragging even when it isn’t. Anyways here is a lit of the main words Desmond knows and says, including words he signs.

He signs:
more
done
eat

He says:
Here
That
Dog/Doggie
Kuta (dog in hindi)
This
Done
Hat
Up
Down
Boob
Milk
Water
eat
book
Des
want
get
Skunk (for fake silk flowers)
Fish
Noni
Papa (for grandpa)
Dada
Dadi
banana
ball
Kitty
Diaper
door
cookie
sock
yay
yeah
yes
no
bubbles
ouch
eww
hug
like
hi
bye-bye

He will string words together like:
Done ball
Des get doggie
Want get doggie
want eat
want get that
want that

So I have been talking about getting my hair cut for over a month now. It was long and a pain and getting really tanglely and Desmond loved pulling. So on Saturday I finally got around to getting it done, I got it cut short. I’ve included some pictures the first picture is from January as a comparison, my hair was 2 to 3 inches longer before I got it cut and poofier and what not, but it is the only semi recent picture of me I could find where you can see my hair. I also posted to pictures of the new hair cut, it is short, and I am still getting use to it. I like it though it is so nice and light.

So this afternoon I decided to let Desmond play in the bathtub for a bit, since he likes to play with his toys in the bubbles. So he was happily playing something like the picture below.

Anyways as he was standing up he slipped and hit his eye on the edge of his toy or the tub, I figured he was fine and was playing with him some when I noticed his eye was bleeding. Eek! So we quickly got him out of the tub, and dried off so I could look at his eye. DH got home right around then and we called the doctor. It was a little bloodly and cut, but we couldn’t see anything in the eye, so we figured it was probably just a surface injury out the eye. The service said they would have the doctor call us back. My in-laws were over so Desmond was playing with them happily, so we figured he was doing okay. We realized it had been about an hour so we called back the service and talked to the doctor, she suggested heading to the ER just to check and make he hadn’t broken his eye bone. So we all packed up and had a family field trip to the ER.

Once we got the ER we were quickly checked in and moved back to pediatrics, much faster then with an adult, nice benefit of being 13 months I guess. The nurse came in and checked out his eye, and said the doctor would be with us shortly. The doctor checked him out and decided he didn’t need an x-ray and it was just a cut. So we all happily headed to dinner. So today’s adventure was a nice visit to the ER with Desmond because of his eye. Below are some of the pictures of him with the nurse looking at his eye and a close up of his eye.

I found a bunch of pictures of Desmond on my small camera card so here is a random assortment of Desmond from the past few weeks. One is of him at Gymboree, two are him in the laundry basket and the rest are him eating a brownie.

We took Desmond to the Zoo about 2 weeks ago now. We all had lots of fun and Desmond really enjoyed seeing the animals. This is the first visit we’ve taken where he stayed awake for the whole trip and saw all the animals. Here are a couple of pictures from our adventure.

Here he and Dan are looking at the Sloth Bear:

Here they are looking at one of the hippos:

Here they are looking at a Tiger:

Here are a couple of silly Desmond faces: