Facts about Des at Two

Des was very brave (he'll tell you so) and went to the doctors yesterday for his big 2-year-old check up. Here's how it went:

First, he played in their playhouse until that terrible door opened and the nurse called his name. To which he promptly began crying. does it every time. we remedied the tears with a quick puppy sticker. whew.

Next, he undressed and clung like a monkey to his mommy (we've been trying to get him to hold on for two years. he still just chills there when you hold him like a sack of potatoes) and he bottomed out the baby scale. So they stuck him on the big kid scale (hard to do with a clingy monkey). came in just under 31 lbs. (that's a heavy clingy monkey if you're keeping track at home.)

Then we went to the terrible, awful, no-good stretch out on a cold table to get your height torture devise. more tears. we concluded that he'll be about 5 ft 9" when he's all grown up (if he sticks to the "formula" for height at two x 2 = adult height). shorty. and then they measured his noggin. he's gonna have some big brains that kid. rockin' the charts at 90 percent. "like an orange on a teuthpeck."

After the promise of more stickers (little does he know one's the result of a shot) he braved the rest of the appointment and even said, "see ya later" to both the dr. and the nurse who stuck him. That's success in my book.

so here are the real numbers:

height: 34.5" / 54%
weight: 30.5 lbs / 79%
head: 50.5 cm / 90%

and the wee-wee-one is supposed to be the size of a turnip (or 5 inches long and 5 ounces for those who decided turnips are yucky and therefore don't get the comparison). Its moving more and more and I even got a cute little jab the other day. I can call it cute now. Later, we'll have some words about the jabs.

aaand since this is a whole buncha words I'll throw in some cute Des and kitty pictures.



"nose"


"ears"


"mater"


"come back!"

Des at two

Des hit the big 2 yesterday. It was the busiest conference sunday I've had since, well, last year. I baked two cakes. Not just two layers of cake but two different recipes since the first was TERRIBLE. Awful. No good. Very bad. I am, however, now very converted to cake mixes. (sorry carrie.) So between all the cake baking, frosting, cooking of dinner, building of bed, and listening I only had a few minutes to hit the shower before the babe was up and we were headed into full party mode.

The party really got started the day before in Fillmore where we celebrated with Kolt's family. The highlight for Destry:



It was like he died and gone to heaven. His eyes lit up, his jaw dropped, and he practically leaped inside when aunt jessi brought it out. Favorite. toy. Ever.

Here's some other snap shots of the two days:


blowing out the candles on cake #1 (made by aunt Kelsie)


"fixing the car"


a big boy bed! (notice how we're all peaking from the hallway?)


Got a cool new light


Le cake de Train






running to open presents


blowing out the candles round three (he couldn't wait for the singing to be over so we had a "do-over" for pictures.)

Because baby food isn't very exciting

Lets do another post!

Its been quite the day. First, it started with Des completely terrorizing the house: unplugging the TV electronics, raiding my bathroom drawers and playing with the toilet brush, throwing books, stripping down to his diaper and donning his rain boots (should've got a picture but I was trying not to lose it at that point), escaping outside and attempting to drive his bike down the front steps, and pretty much anything he could think of that was taboo. So he went back to bed. at nine.

whew.

But by the end of the day we were happily playing and I attempted to get some "two-year-old photos" for the wall/album/posterity/whatever. It actually turned out pretty good.



That one was one of my favorites. Prob won't go on the wall but its just so cute and baby-ish still. I still can't believe he's two on sunday. TWO!

I put a few more on my flikr account so you should click over and comment on your favorites. They're all straight out of the camera so I'll edit them for sure but I figured it would be good to get a vote.

I think you can click here: Laura's Flikr Photostream

Free Baby Food if you want it!

We're going through our food storage and clearing out all the old to bring in some new and I discovered I have around 30 jars of baby food (gerber and beechnut--mostly beechnut) that will expire by the end of the year. So they're still good. Most expire November I think. Anyway, if you are interested let me know! You can come get em!

I also have some Gerber baby cereal too if you want it. Its not that expensive to buy your own but hey, it's here. It's free. Pretty sure its either oatmeal or whole grain since the rice stopped up des like nothing else.

That is all. Go work on your food storage! :D

Post Edit: Looks like we have a taker already! Taffee wins!!

does someone want to make me a spiffy new header?

you see...I'm full of excuses which include:

I'm pregnant.
I'm tired because i'm pregnant.
I'm mostly just lazy and don't wanna do it.
And I don't have any software to do it because we didn't upload paint.net or whatever its called.
and I'm lazy.

thanks.

Baby Windsor is no longer online

So it wasn't supposed to go down like this but I don't have enough energy to care...I canceled my auto-renewal on the website yesterday and it was supposed to run until July. But its down so I guess they wanted more money or something. I dunno. But I still make ties, just no longer going to have an online presence. We're slowly going to faze out the business with number 2 coming in September. Just don't really want to. I might pick it up again after but we'll cross that bridge when we get there (as my brother brian always says).

But if you have a sweet little Baby Windsor Link on your blog you probably want to take it down. and I'll be deleting that portion on my facebook too. Just FYI.

I feel strangely free....

Oh and if you need/want/desire a tie in the future, just email me. Or comment on something since it emails me those anyway. I'll send you pics of fabrics or whatever. Or I can show you how to make a tie because secretly, if you know how to sew, its super easy. shhh. don't tell.

Little Destry Doo

Someone told Des he was turning two soon...ohmygoodness. He is becoming both hilarious and terrible all at the same time. Just this morning he was sitting atop the overturned laundry basket just screaming. Making noise. Oh and he was naked (well, he had a diaper). Couldn't have been happier. All the while Kolt and I hid behind the doorway and giggled and Kolt recorded some of the event on his phone (although unfortunately he didn't get the good screaming ).

And he can now open the front door. So far he hasn't had the audacity to actually walk out but I'm guessing that will be sometime tomorrow. Oh, and he can open the fridge too. Once again, he hasn't connected the dots but I bet he stops by for a snack before marching out the front door. *sigh*

We also had a go-round of potty training yesterday. Its really round two because last week we started and he got a terrible rash on his poor behind which meant a trip to the dr to get some cream that would work and so we put the training on hold to heal. How's that for a run-on sentence? But yesterday we concluded that even though he's very willing, knows the process, and loves the rewards he lacks the bladder control to stop the almost constant flow of popsicles and juice boxes. But boy, he knows how to poop in the potty! Woo!! So we wait for a few more months for those muscles to develop.

Lastly, he calls me "mom" now instead of mommy.  :(  sad day. But kinda funny still.