Birthday Weekend

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Turning two!!
Desmond P. Jones. Ahhhh... had to take a look back at last years entry. Compare. Contrast. Still a happy boy. Hair longer. Body too. Certainly says a lot more.

Auntie Heidi was onhand to do a lot of the creative party planning. Master minded the Elmo theme, found all the party favors, baked and decorated the cake. Overall went above and beyond Auntie duties!!!

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Birthday Montage

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Party girl #1!!! Heidi makes any party special!!

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The cake was significantly improved over last years no-sugar-carrot-brick-cake variety. Des didn't eat much at this sitting, merely crumbled it (he had a cold at the time, no appitite) but a few days later he was eating great quantities of chocolate and icing (me too!)

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not the best pic -- but it's all we have with the cake!! This is a good profile of growing babgirljones. We are in major expansion mode now -- almost 8months!!!

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A playdate yesterday with our new friends Cori and her 2yearold son Ayden. This was our second get together and it is such a thrill because they again played so well together!! Big step in Desi's social development. He has such energy and unbridled physical exuberance that it has often not meshed well with other playmates. Ayden enjoys mimicking Desi's physical antics (which largely involves various ways of falling down) and Des in turn will mimic him. He loves it. Ayden also has some really cool toys -- the main pleaser being a ride-on excavator with hard hat. Very cool.

After the boys played inside for an hour we walked over to nearby Isham Park and had lunch and watched the boys chase squirrels and a soccer ball.
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Bronx Botanical Gardens

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Ahhhh... it was such a beautiful day last Wednesday. Loving autumn in New York. Unseasonably mild -- 50s & 60s. We went with a *large group* to the Bronx (we were fortunate to snag a car ride this time!) the children and adults all fed off of each others energy. It really was a nice happy day.

DesmondPJones loves to walk and he did a lot of hands-free walking. When I reach for his hand, he now tells me, "Desi do it!" In addition to walking and running, there were rocks to climb and leaves to tumble in, sticks to weild and play with (which included sound effects that sounded remarkably close to laser fire! Nate! Star Wars!!)

One of those ILOVENEWYORK days. :):)

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