Josh is One!!!

Here we sit at the end of one of the longest days of our lives, which punctuates what seems to be the shortest year of our lives.  Joshua is one year old and no longer the little baby we brought home from the hospital, but a rough and tumble, walking, running, jibber-jabbering little boy.  He was lucky enough to get to share his first birthday with not only family, but friends and neighbors too.   What we thought would be a small casual get together, turned into a balloon infested, three dimensional advertisement for Sesame Street.  All that really matters is that  Josh ran and played, pulled balloons down, tore paper, ate cake, and smiled all day — even with missing his nap.

–Crisi

I just have to say that Josh was an absolute rock star today.   With a whole household of people milling around and kids running rampant all over the place, he never batted an eye.  He just had a great time and went from person to person to tell them that he was One!  Please enjoy our favorite pictures from today,

–Trav

Screaming Josh

These pictures are for all of you that can’t believe that Josh could be anything other than an angel.  After waking up way too early, being a pistol all morning long, biting his mother and punching her in the face, it was nap time.  He thought that meant jail and torture and was letting Crisi know about it.  I couldn’t hear her on the phone for all the yelling and screaming that was going on.  All the same, we still think he is super cute.

This last week or two he has started pulling up on everything and trying to climb up anything that he can get a hand on.  He frequently uses Grace Dog as his own personal jungle gym or as a stepping stool to get up onto the couch.  He has also started talking a lot more and he’s getting pretty good at “Mama.”  Otherwise it’s mostly “babababababa…”

And on Easter Day, his two bottom teeth came in.  Sharp as little razors.  I never realized the teeth would be so sharp.  Neat.

-Trav

Too Tart!!!!

Hi there!  Josh is almost six months and I’ve been quite the slacker about maintaining the blog.  We’re trying to get him into better sleep habits and it’s been exhausting us.   At any rate, he seems to be improving every night.  If he wakes up, he’ll typically cry for about five to ten minutes before falling back to sleep.   We have a good video monitor that we can check to make sure he’s still in the crib and the image is sharp enough that we can see the gentle rise and fall of his breathing.  The monitor prevents unnecessary trips to check on him.

Josh has also been eating a variety of solid foods.  Crisi makes everything from scratch and usually adds just a smidgen of butter and some seasonings.  There hasn’t been anything that I would happily eat if it was served to me.  (Well, maybe not that squash last night…)  Here is a video of Josh’s reaction to peaches with a little yogurt.  TOO TART!!!!

We hope you are all well and happy. God Bless.

January 2009

Happy New Years.  It’s been a busy two months since we last posted and for that I apologize.  We had the holidays, my birthday, a visit from my Dad and Susy, a lot of studying for my Certified Genereal Appraiser exam (I passed!) and of course, the everyday challenge of being new parents.   Through all that, we took a ton of pictures and we’ve tried to pick a handful of them to post.

Here’s a gallery of Christmas pictures from Josh’s first Christmas:

Here’s a bunch of Josh shots with different hats on.  He didn’t like hats to begin with, but they don’t seem to bother him much anymore.