Baby Girl on the Move

Here is a video I took yesterday of Lucy using her new army crawl talents. I am just starting to fully understand just how much havoc is about to be wreaked. She loves to crawl over to where ever Josh is and try to play with whatever he is playing with, which is annoying to Josh sometimes. Such a good little sister :) I see lessons about sharing in our near future...

Bother!

Adam here. For quite a while now, Josh has been completely enamored with Thomas the Tank Engine. Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, he can see dozens of different Thomas and Friends DVDs whenever he wants. Which is pretty much all the time. Often, he will grab the remote, place it in Lisa's or my hand, and whisper "choo, choo."

For anyone who has not watched an unhealthy amount of Thomas, the show itself is pretty boring. I can't really figure out why little kids love it so much. Maybe it is just the fact that they are all model trains and just about every little boy in the world loves model trains and cars and such.

Anyway, Thomas gets annoyed and frustrated very easily on the show, at which point he makes a face and then says, "Bother!"

Josh recently started repeating the "Bother!" whenever it happens on screen, so I hit upon an idea. Whenever Josh starts to get mad about something or if he bonks his head on the table or whatever, I just say to him, "Bother!" and he repeats it. This often heads off his complaints or crying at the pass, and then he goes on with whatever he was doing.

I think it is cute and useful, but I wonder just how long it will work. Hopefully until he is 13 or 14.

7 months old!

I'm a little late in getting this post out, but Lucy turned 7 months old about a week and a half ago. Her little personality continues to grow and develop and she is so much fun to have in our family. She is pretty adept at getting anywhere she wants to go. Her new trick now is to push herself onto her hands and knees and rock back and forth. If she tries to move one of her legs forward, she throws herself off balance and collapses to the ground, and then she goes for the army crawl, pushing with her feet and dragging herself forward a little bit. She doesn't army crawl very far, though. If she really wants to travel some distance, she resorts to the tried and true method of rolling there.

Another one of her new favorite things is shaking her head. I don't know where she picked that up from, but she decided it's a pretty fun thing to do. Sometimes I'll nod my head at her, and she'll stare and me for a second and then shake her head back at me. This could go on for minutes at a time, and it's hilarious to Adam and myself. She is just so darn cute when she's being contrary.

This past month we've started her on some fruits and veggies. This time around I'm making the baby food by steaming and pureeing the veggies in the food processor and pureeing canned fruits in the blender. So far we've tried green beans, pears, carrots, applesauce, peas and peaches. And we've ventured into oatmeal, too, to complement the rice cereal she's been eating for a few months now. She seems to like everything she's tried so far, so that's a plus. She can also hold her bottle all by herself, which is really cool.

Little Lucy still babbles up a storm and loves to say, "dadadadadadadada." She also must have aspirations to be the Olympic champion of chewing on things because she practices ALL THE TIME. She LOVES to use her two little chompers. We keep waiting for more to show up, but nothing yet. She is the master of finding shoes to chew on.






We love her!

Big Shoes to Fill

Josh was playing around with Adam's shoes the other day. He likes to put them on his feet and try to walk around in them. Well, it's more like clunking around in them, but Josh thinks it's highly entertaining. Josh is physically more like his dad than he is like me, and I know one day (sooner than I will be ready for, I'm sure) he will grow up and his feet will actually be able to fit into those shoes.

But more than just filling out his daddy's shoes, I hope Josh grows up to be like his dad in other ways, too. To really walk in his daddy's shoes, Josh will need to love his family and be willing to work hard to support them. He will need to have a hunger for knowledge and be willing to study things out that he wants to learn about. He will need to have a testimony of Jesus Christ and His gospel. He will need to have a great sense of humor and a sense of adventure to try new things. It's seems like a lot that Josh needs to learn if he want to fill his daddy's shoes, but he also has a great example to follow. I love Josh, and I hope he grows up to be just like his daddy.