some december photos

for real

my pre-christmas cleaning led me to this drawer. ridiculous.

us :)

It's been quite some time since a photo of just the two of us was taken ... most photos these days are of Desmond only. So, it's nice to have one relatively decent photo of us this year. This was taken at Ruth's Chris (yum!) last night.

learning body parts

(nose)

(tongue)

(belly)
(tongue, again)
(still, tongue)

CONGRATULATIONS

Chris' new home-away-from-home for the next 2 (or 3 or 4) years!! Congratulations on getting accepted!!!

halloween monkey

monkey walk

ZooBoo!

One of the great things about having Desmond is all of the fun holiday events in Baltimore that you don't really enjoy until you're a parent. We went to ZooBoo today and it was AWESOME. We took lots of photos, as usual, but here are some highlights:

very excited that the goat was eating a pumpkin (he's really into pumpkins right now, since they're everywhere).

finally, a walker

it only took 14 months, but desmond is now an official walker (and has the new shoes to prove it)!

(video is, obviously, for everyone's enjoyment ... but mostly for cheri and jer, who are away on a cruise and haven't seen des in action yet)

sunday morning ritual

it's not the frederick news post, but granddad would be proud anyway.

happy boys

what a cute little guy

our first ED visit

we stopped by frazier's for a drink, desmond got a little out of hand, another guy got mad .... and the rest is history (okay, OR he was walking and fell over onto the edge of the toy chest). ended up in the sinai pediatric emergency department for a few hours. a little bit of glue, a lot of apple juice, and MORE than a lot of tears later, here's what we have:

2 new words ... and a whine

drum set

great-grandma and great-grandpa sent some birthday money all the way from california to facilitate this new purchase!

a little lick of frosting

taste-testing the night before the big party!

... but everyone came out alive

a funny thing happened on the way to the water park ...

the photos speak for themselves. feel free to enlarge them to really capture the essence of the event.

haircut, part deux

some better photos of the haircut

tractor nap

Somebody loves his new birthday tractor ... thanks, Grandma Annie!

first haircut!

not happy with the final product?

We took Desmond to Cartoon Cuts today for his first haircut! Once he had his orange lollipop in hand and "Dora the Explorer" on the tv, he was good to go. I don't think he even realized his hair was being cut. Now, he looks less like Terry Bradshaw and more like a very handsome one-year-old.