Whenever I was a kid and had a pain anywhere on my body my mom would always say “oh its just growing pains” and I believed her every single time. She would tell me that my bones were stretching and this was just me getting bigger. I think she was just telling me a tall tale. Us Irish are good at tall tales. However, it worked, I mean how could I argue with that? I wanted to grow, no pain no gain right? So every time I had a slight pain I brushed it off as growing pains. I am 6 foot tall, and it hurt like a mother to get here.

Desmond is now experiencing his own growing pains. His little teeth are coming in. He has two little teeth just sprouting through. Next week he will be 6 months old! He is now rolling over both directions. This freaks him out, because I think he kinda rolls and falls back ontohis back, and is all “what the heck just happened?!” It freaks me out too, because this is one step closer to him going mobile! He can also sit up by himself. Usually if he gets too excited he falls back, but most of the time he finds a good balance and can sit and play. We watched him for about a half hour today just playing with toys and talking to them, it was very cool. I have noticed that every time I run to get the video camera he stops talking. I think he is on to me. I am just going to have to be more creative and sneaky.

His sleeping is hit or miss here latley. He seems to sleep every other night, Jackie is really great about getting him back to sleep, she has a real nack for this now. She is wonderful. Our little boy is growing so fast! I am not sure we can keep up, we are just soaking up every moment we can. I still just cant get over it. Its funny sometimes I will see Desmond in things around me. I saw The Hulk the other night, and when the Hulk was sad or pouting, I saw Desmond. I sure do love that little boy.

This face is one of my favorite looks he gives. It makes me laugh every time.