Words, Words, Words!!

Today was another beautiful day. The weather was warm and the skies were blue. I had Joshua run around outside with me while I cleaned up the yard. He found my marigolds and picked one. Then he proceded to wonder around the yard saying, 'flower.' He also added 'Dirty' and 'Pretty' to his list of words. He now can say about 45 words not including the signs and sounds that he makes. It is wonderful to hear him communicating. Some of his words are very clear like Bye-Bye and Eyes and others like, 'flower' are more like 'ow-er'.

He also decided to try and climb out of his crib today. He throw his little foot up to the top of the rail. Other objects that he has done that to he has succeeded in mounting withing a week or two. So, tonight we moved him into his pack-n-play so that if he does climb out he is not falling as far. We will be getting a bed and moving him into that maybe this weekend. This should be an interesting transition.

Noella's Baptism

Today was Joshua's cousin Noella's baptism. She was joined by Nanny Grandma, Aunt Jo, Me-Maw, Grandad, Dylan, Mommy, Daddy, cousin Joshua, me and her other set of Godparents.



Noella's surgery is scheduled for December 6 at Hopkins. We are all praying for the doctors that will be performing the surgery and for Noella that she may be healed.

Joshua said, 'Papa', today. We have photos of his Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents that he doesn't see often in his room and we often point them out to Joshua so that he knows who they are. It was wonderful to see that he is aware of them and can recognize them.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Joshua enjoyed a wonderful visit from his Aunt Jill and Aunt Tara over the Thanksgiving Holiday. He would have visited with everyone else more if his cold were not still lingering. As it was, he was only able to spend Thanksgiving Day with his cousins, aunts and grandparents. In spite of the cold, he has been adding his words and tricks to his repetroir including screwing the lid on the oranged juice bottle, saying 'brush', 'dirty', 'baa' for sheep and breakfast. He helps us read the book, 'Five little pumpkins' by 'ooo' ing and blowing at just the right time and he now will point to pictures and say their name or sound without prompting. It has been a busy week!

Sick Day

Joshua had a sick day today. He will probably have one again tomorrow. He has a bit of a cold and so his nose is running and he is irritable. But in spite of that he still had a pretty good day. He is repeating everything we say and repeated 'who-wee' :-) after Jason said it. He has been playing with his shape sorter and sat in his booster seat at the dinner table for an hour while I prepared dinner and then while we ate and played with his toy and ate. He is also climbing all over everything. We had to move the couch and an end table because of his more dangerous climbing adventure. He got a 'time out' chair from Great Uncle Ray and was using that to climb on. He also liked moving it around the house (it wasn't that small!)



He says 'bye-bye' now when someone leaves, when he leaves and when he hears someone else say it. That is his favorite time to talk, when you are having a conversation and he picks up on a word he knows, he'll just respond to it. It is great because it is so out of the blue!

Yesterday and then today again Joshua got to spend time with Meemaw (Grandma V.) She came out to watch him while Jason and I went to the Opera and then stayed the night. They had fun playing with cars and the shape sorter.

New Words

"Choo - Choo" for the train and he now says "Toes". He is climbing all over everything and loves to take your hand (figure maybe) and lead you to whatever he wants

Goodnight stars, Goodnight air....

Joshua's word of the day (yesterday) is 'star' and he points to the picture when he says it :-)

First Blood Test

Joshua had his first blood test today. It was part of us 12 month check up (just done separately). The technician was great and Joshua did awesome, much better than mommy and daddy usually do!



Last night, Joshua matched pieces of his animal puzzle book to the correct pages. He is climbing all over everything and identifying items he recognizes. He loves to take someone's hand and point to, touch or lead them to an item he is interested in.

His sleep has been off for over a week now and we are unsure if he is getting his molars in but that may be causing the upset. I hope we can get him back on a regular sleep schedule soon.

Big Photo Upload

I uploaded a bunch of photos from this weekend. I didn't have time to add descriptions but at least they are up and ready to be viewed.

An attempt

... to photograph Dylan and 5 children under 3 years old...

From left to right, Lily(2), Stephanie(2), Dylan(9), Violet(4 mo) (on Dylan's lap), Joshua(1) (sliding off the couch in a tantrum), Noella(5 mos).

Goodbye Pop Pop

Today, we said goodbye to Great Grandpa. He passed this morning at the hospital where he was being treated for pnuemonia. It was a sad day. We have been remembering the good memories of all the years passed and missing him already.