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 bet you think this post is going to be about Desmond. Nope it is all about me. This morning I woke up with hives. It was actually kind of fun to watch them break out all over my arms and legs. When I woke up I had one or two spots, within 20 minutes my arms and legs were covered.

I have had hives before, I was 15 at the time and missed 2+ weeks of school. They never did figure out what caused them, they finally decided I was allergic to a virus. No clue what is causing them this time either. Anyways we went out and bought Benadryl since while I might have every medicine under the sun needed for a one year old, we don’t always have the adult version of said medicine. After two pills and an hour the hives were basically gone. So now I am just waiting to see if they are going to come back since the medicine has just about worn off. My legs and arms are starting to itch again, so I am guessing yes.

I figured if they are still here on Monday I’ll go to the doctor, since there really isn’t much they can do about hives anyways other then run blood tests.

Anyways that was my excitement for the day.

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:

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.