One Of My Favorite Milestones

Night before last, Desmond slept through the night! No 4 AM feeding! I was afraid it was a fluke, but he did it again last night! I think I got to sleep 7 1/2 hours in a row last night! Then we got up, I got him dressed, fed him and ate a bowl of cereal, then we went for a walk with the new jogging stroller I was given and we were back home by 8 AM. I wish I could walk again later, but it'll too hot all the rest of the day. It's been getting 100 degrees quite often.

Yesterday Des was babysat by Grandma Gloria (my grandma) in the afternoon so that I could go to a movie with my Uncle Rob and twin cousins. She said he was good almost the entire time and gave her lots of smiles with dimples.

I'm a single mom this week as Norman has gone on the Ride. I so wish I was going! Hopefully I'll be able to go next year. I'll just have to leave Desmond with a grandma or something for the week. I think he'll be old enough to be without me for a week by then. We'll see. It might be me who couldn't go a week without him by then.

My brother visited from Seattle for couple days and Desmond seemed pretty enamored with him. He stared at him a lot. He was good when we went places, so I take that as he enjoyed himself.

Desmond is starting to outgrow some of his clothes. I had to start two piles: keeping for future kids and give away. I look forward to breaking out the next size of clothes and having new choices to put on him. He's so cute...in everything!
Here's his last time in the adorable Shark outfit:




My grandma seems to be getting a kick out of me with him. She keeps telling people how much I love him and spoil him. I don't know how you couldn't love him, he's such a good baby and so adorable. He's getting upset more often now, but it's only because he's getting bored easier and wants to do something else fun. If you keep wandering around with him and changing the scenery he's perfectly happy. He just doesn't want to sit someplace. He does like to spend time kicking and watching toys move in his chair. He still isn't grabbing anything, but his hands are going up towards them more I think.

Another neat milestone from this past week is that he smiled at MoonShine for the first time. Ted was holding him and sitting on the porch and MoonShine was wandering back and forth in front of them and he would smile every time he saw her. She brings him balls to throw for her when he's in his rocking chair. He doesn't respond to her, but she doesn't seem to mind. So smiling at her was a big deal. I can't wait till they're playing together; that will be SO cute!

MoonShine came on our walk this morning. She was so excited to go that she was whining and barking and bouncing around. Monty walked her and I pushed the stroller. Desmond started getting fussy a little before the half-way mark. I think it was party because the sun kept getting in his eyes. I'm not sure what the other part was. I kept having to move the hood so it was blocking the sun, but it was at a low angle and kept sneaking in. He's happily playing with his toys now though. Smiling and kicking and talking to them.

He's been going to sleep well at night. We have a routine now. I feed him about 8:30 or 9:00 PM, then he gets in his PJ's, I sit him in my lap and read him a book or two, then I kiss him a bunch and lay him in his crib with the mobile on and light off. He talks to the mobile and wiggles about until he falls asleep. Last night I even left him alone and finished up stuff in the living room and he stayed happy. I kept checking on him and he was not worried at all, just talking away.

He's trying to laugh. Norman is really looking forward to him laughing. He's getting closer to laughing everyday. He breathes in like half a laugh, but isn't doing the other half yet. Getting closer though.