15 Months (+ 1 week)

Today Josh had his 15 month appointment with the doctor. I must say, it's getting harder and harder to hold him still, especially to get him weighed. He thinks the scale is the best toy ever, and it's a pain in the neck to try to get him to hold still and not play with the weight thingie as the nurse is trying to slide it (and hoping all the while that he doesn't pee, since he is diaperless). He got 4 shots today, poor guy. This time he cried more than any time before, :( but since we've been home he's been just fine, thank goodness!

Here are his stats:

Height: 33" (90th percentile)
Weight: 22#, 6 oz. (25th percentile)
Head: 18" (10th percentile)

In other words, we have a tall, skinny boy with a little head. :) He looks just perfect to me!

Some of the fun things Josh has been doing lately:

-Learning to talk. He can do animal sounds for a dog (his favorite), horse, cow, chicken, lion (sometimes) and cat every once in a while. He also says cracker, mama, dada, bye-bye, uh-oh (his favorite and most used, often right before he throws his fork or dinner on the floor), hello (while holding the phone to his ear), and probably a few others, but that's all I can think of right now. When he's not saying real words he's usually babbling on in his own language. I'm pretty sure I'll be getting an earful when he does learn to talk!

-Understanding what I'm saying to him. Every once in a while, anyway. My favorite is when I tell him to go and get his shoes so we can go outside and he runs to his room and comes back with his shoes. It's so handy having a "gopher"!

-Giving kisses. Who wouldn't love that?

-Dancing. So, he may not have the best moves, but we could't expect much in that area, considering his genetic make-up. He mostly just moves from side to side and shakes his head, but it sure is cute!

-Finally learning to drink milk from a sippy cup! I wanted to wean Josh from his bottle at a year, but I just couldn't get him to drink milk from a sippy cup. He would drink water from it just fine, and it didn't matter that the milk was the exact same thing that he was getting in his bottle, he just didn't want it from a sippy cup. And, since he is so skinny, I didn't want to risk him refusing milk completely. Finally, 2 or 3 weeks ago, he decided it wasn't all that bad from a bottle! Hooray!

-Dragging his blanket around. Just call him our Little Linus. He has two blankets that have the satiny material on the back and the super soft fuzzy material on the front that he loves. (Thank goodness we have two, so I can actually wash one of them at a time!) Luckily it's not so bad that he insists on taking it with him when we leave the house, but he does usually go and get it out of his crib and drag it around the house with him. It's actually pretty cute.

-Eating. He eats pretty much everything now, except for chips. They still tend to make him choke. You would think with all the eating he does that he would be fatter, but no. Hopefully he'll keep his good metabolism!

-Climbing. Okay, this one isn't so fun, most of the time. Luckily, we haven't had any major incidents so far (knock on wood), but I'm sure they'll be coming with his climbing abilities. He loves to climb on the chairs around the table, the piano bench, and pretty much anything that will help him to reach just a little bit farther.

-Throwing fits. Again, not so fun, but he sure is good at them!

-Being his cute, normal self!

Halloween 2008

We had a fun Halloween this year. Much to David's dismay, I got Josh a chicken costume last year on clearance at Old Navy. He made a pretty dang cute chicken, I must say (maybe too cute, since a couple people mistook him for a girl while we were trick or treating)!

We got to go to our ward's trunk or treat where Josh made off with enough candy to keep his parents happy until the real trick or treating on Halloween night. :) While there he got to hang out in the chicken coop with his friends Jameson and Alex, until Stanton the dragon came and scared them off.

We even got him to take a break from scoring loot to pose with his mother, the farmer girl.

On Halloween night we went out to Mindy and Chad's to go trick or treating with their family, since their neighborhood is much more conducive to trick or treating than our neighborhood is. Here we have Josh the chicken with Karalee the kitty. This was before the trick or treating started, because during the trick or treating, Josh didn't want anything to do with riding in the stroller...

...he wanted to be on Dad's shoulders!

Hope your Halloween was as fun as ours!

Canning Peaches

Okay, so this is pretty old, but I thought I'd better finally finish this post up and post it, to prove that I'm learing to be domesticated. :)

Mindy and I got a couple of boxes of peaches and she taught me how to can them. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, and now I have peaches in my food storage...yea!

The process.

The finished product! We also made a batch of freezer jam...yum!

New (to us) Truck

Back when David got his Jeep he promised that when we needed to "upgrade" to a miniavan, he would be willing to part with it. The original deal was that David would start driving my truck when we got the minivan, but since my truck doesn't have four wheel drive (and that is a "must" for off-roading adventures, according to David), it looks like I am going to have to part with my truck too. :(

David decided that this cool yellow taxi cab--I mean truck--would be a sensible solution, since it'll fit 2 kids in it and still let him do his off-roading. We got it back in September, but I'm just now getting around to finishing my post up. :) Isn't the truck model cute?

So long Jeep, we'll miss you! Luckily, we're selling it to his parents for his brother Thomas to drive, so David will still get to visit and keep in touch. :)

It's A....

I know I am WAY behind on posting stuff that has been going on for our little family, but I thought I'd jump ahead anyway to get to the most exciting stuff first...yesterday David and I went to the doctor and had an ultrasound. Here's a picture of our little bundle of joy:

The top picture is what the doctor called a nice Halloween picture of the face. I saw it at the doctor's office but I can't really make anything out now. Oh well. The second is the most distinguishable, the baby's profile. The head is on the right, the baby is looking up and to the left. What a cute baby! The third is what the doctor called a nice pornographic picture (I can't tell) to show us that the baby is...A GIRL!!! Wahoo!

I must admit that I'm a little nervous to have a girl--I don't know how to take care of girls! But, at the same time I am so excited! Now I get to really look at all the cutsie dresses and pink clothes and not just casually browse through them thinking that they're cute. While we were leaving the doctor's office David said (jokingly, of course) "You just had to go and make it expensive, didn't you?" Ha ha, I guess he didn't pay attention in biology, did he? He also told me that he's going to have to put me on a baby allowance. :)

Anyway, jokes aside, we're both SUPER excited (and so is Josh, he just doesn't know it yet).

Typing Test

This was kind of fun, I haven't done a typing test in a long time. I tried it three times--I got 76 both my first and second time and 81 my third time, but I went from 0 to 2 to 3 errors. So I guess I should slow down and make sure I don't make mistakes!


76 words

Typing Test

The Drive-In

On September 18th the Scottsdale Drive-In had a Family Night with free movies. We couldn't pass up a free movie, so we packed the foam pads and blakets into the back of the truck and headed out for a good time. David wanted to see "Iron Man", which was playing after "Horton Hears a Who", so we ate our dinner and got ourselves comfortable and watched the first movie. I naively thought that Josh would drink his bottle and go to sleep around his bedtime during the first movie. Oh was I wrong! We finally got him to sleep between movies, after a bit of crying and wrestling, and David and I got comfortable for Iron Man. I fell asleep about 10 minutes into it. Then about 30 minutes or so later Josh woke up screaming (he was inside the truck in his carseat). In order not to disturb the peace too much we packed up and left. Josh promptly fell back asleep right after we got out of the theater, of course. Even though it didn't work out quite as planned, it was still fun, and I think we'll try it again next year!

David and Josh wrestling. Looks like Josh is winning this match.


Hmm...looks like he's winning this one too.