11 months old - Joshua

11 month update (June 4 - July 4):

* You are wearing a size 2 diaper

* You are still taking 2 naps a day, one in the morning and one later in the afternoon.

* You are typically in bed by 7:30pm.  You love your little snuggy blanket and like to cover up your face with it while you sleep. 

* You nurse 3-4 times a day along with eating various solid foods.

* You are our little social eater and think you need to eat anytime you see someone else around you eating.

* You have figured out how to use a straw.

* This month you especially like feeding yourself (ie puffs, cheerios, gold fish, etc)

* You like playing with your Little People school bus.  You know how to open and shut the doors, you will open up the door and put the people in and then close the door.

* Your first tooth has poked through!  We were at the park and I was checking to see what you had put in your mouth and discovered you had a tooth poking through.  It's your bottom, middle tooth on the left.

10 months old - Joshua

10 month update (May 4 - June 4):

* You are wearing a size 2 diaper

* You have started drinking a little bit out of a sippy cup

* You nurse 4-5 times a day

* You are rolling everywhere!

* You are still not crawling

* This month you ate little bites of banana, some whole peas, pieces of carrots and tried a saltine cracker.  You are also eating various types of baby food both homemade and store bought.

Stats from 9 month check-up (May 6):
Height- 28 inches
Weight- 8 lb. 1 oz
Head- 44 1/2 cm

Mother's Day

Once again I decided to subject my kiddos to multiple attempts of taking pictures on Mother's Day.  I'm blaming our church for some of these (ha) as our church was so sweet and had various areas set up before and after services that families could have their picture taken.  They gave each Mom a free 5x7 photo that was ready to be picked up the following Sunday.  We didn't see the photo stations set up outside until we had already had our picture taken inside so David was a big sweetie and went home and got our camera between services so that we could take a few photos outside after church.

Hey when you can't get them to join you in taking a serious posed picture you just get crazy and strike whatever pose you feel like.

Caleb decided he wanted to be the photographer for awhile and took a few pictures for us. 

After church we went back to our house for what has become our family tradition of having our Moms over for Mother's Day lunch.

9 months old - Joshua

Happy 9 months Joshua!  Here is a little information about you (April 4 - May 4):

* You are not making any attempts to crawl

* You can roll over from your stomach to your back but are content with this and still haven't decided to roll from your back to your stomach

* You are wearing a size 2 diaper

* This month we introduced Yo Baby blueberry yogurt and you are eating apples with blueberries baby food.

* You started eating Gerber Graduate Puffs.  It's so cute watching you pick up the little star shaped puffs with your fingers and put them in your mouth.

* We finally found a green vegetable that you like.....broccoli!

* You currently do not have any teeth

* Mommy makes some of your baby food but not all of it

* You still take 2 naps a day and are still sleeping through the night

* You eat solid food 3 times a day and nurse 4-5 times a day

* You are not interested in drinking out of a cup or a bottle

* You love necklaces and always try to grab them if someone is wearing one when they are holding you.  You love Daddy's work badge and always want it when he comes home from work.

You weren't really feeling like taking pictures so later in the day I decided to try to take a few more and brought in reinforcements, your big brother, to see if he could get you to laugh. 

Hey Bubba, what are you doing over there?

 Love you sweet boy!!!

Construction

Finally after 8 years someone is building on the empty lot across from us!  It has been the only vacant lot in our neighborhood for a while now and I think all of the people on our street were starting to wonder if anyone was every going to build on it.  Caleb has loved watching them build and has kept a close eye on the progress and is always giving us an update on what the workers are doing.  Around mid April they started putting the sheetrock up.  Caleb enjoyed just sitting on the sidewalk watching them deliver it.  They had to take the upstairs window out so that they could use a crane and deliver the sheetrock on the second floor through the window space.  I thought it was so cute that he went and got his vest to put on as if he was one of the workers.  He sat and watched them on the sidewalk for a while or he would just ride his bike up and down the street keeping an eye on what they were doing.  I love this sweet boy and how he just enjoys life and takes time to soak it all in!