Des & Pepere F Exchange Gibberish

While watching "Holiday Inn", Desmond and Pepere F hang out. Pepere says French gibberish while Desmond says baby gibberish. They do some dancing, while Mom and Dad complain about the lack of dinner & dancing places and wonder if they existed in Portland in the old days.

Des with Pepere F

Des spends some quality time in his Pepere F's lap. He focuses on many shirt buttons and pokes around. He's lucky he still has all of his fingers.

Des with Santa

Santa managed to stop by for some photos. He was gracious enough to take plenty of photos and even some videos after his long night delivering toys.

Christmas Morning

Sanata managed to stop by and deliver some gifts. So did some aunts and uncles.

Des with the Pep

Des with the Mem and Pep. He spends a minute on Pepe's lap goofing off.

Des With Pepere

Desmond spent some time in Pepere's lap. He was still oblivious to the bows.

Opening Gifts on Christmas

Here's Desmond and his first Christmas gift extravaganza...



He was a big fan of wrapping paper. He tore away at it and made it krinkle....



He finally started to get into unwrapping...



He was a big fan of silver paper....



Oblivious to the event...



Dad started sticking bows on Desmond's head...



Make that 2 bows....

Desmond Loses it with Quackers

On Christmas, Desmond was cracking up with Mom and Mem over Quackers. They brought him downstairs after his nap, and this was the 3 mins of him losing it. Quackers makes him laugh this hard. Not us.

Early Crawling

He had this early habit of crawling two or three steps and then sticking out his leg straight. He also did some Russian floor routines to get around.

Erica Entertains Des Before His Bath

During Erica's December visit, we put him through the bootcamp to get crawling. She also helped Dad with Desmond's nightly routine.

Des & Mom

Des and Mom play with the small truck. He's not big on rolling the ball back and forth but he likes pushing trucks.

Happy Birthday Desmond!

It's hard to believe that he's a year old today! He has gained 19 pounds and grown about 11 inches! We love you so much buddy!

(ps. we will be posting videos over the weekend!)

Des with Pepere and Cousin Erica

Des plays with the hockey stick, which we then discuss as a zombie film character. The child who uses a hockey stick to beat down zombies.