October Update

Joshua was a dragon for Halloween. He loved watching the trick- or treaters come to the door.

He watched through the window the whole time.

Mike was Swine Flu for halloween and I dressed up as the sick one.

The other day I heard a lot of noise coming from the kitchen and I found Joshua in our oven drawer banging the fry pans together. This last month he has discovered how to open and close things. He also got really discouraged while trying to keep a book open. It kept closing on him and he could not figure out why.

Joshua is teaching Tyler how to bang on the window. If he gets on his tippy toes he can reach the window.

Tiffany came over the other day with Veva who is three months old now.

Here is what Joshua did:

 

First: He asked permission from the mom

 Then he slowly made his move in to get closer  

At last he softly landed a big kiss on Veva.

The funny thing was he did this over and over. He showered Veva with kisses.

  

Now they are inseparable

 

Double trouble already!!

They spilled a jar of oats and then they thought it was their job to spread it all over the floor.

  

Well we have been in our house for almost five months and just last weekend we finally put in pantry shelves. I love them. I was getting so tired of stacking everything on the floor. But now we have wonderful shelves and I've never been so excited about shelves before in my life.

 

Are these boys related or what!!

Joshua went everywhere with this flower it was his favorite toy for the month of October.

 

Look at those beautiful eyelashes

Just turned 8 months

During his 7th month of age Joshua learned how to:

• Climb the stairs
• Speed crawl
• Pull himself up and stand on his own 
• Said his first word "DADA" which made dad really happy
  
• Pull things out of drawers, needless to say his is a tornado where ever he is
• Suck his thumb, he never liked his thumb or binkis but now that he has found his thumb he won't stop sucking it.
• Learned he doesn't like peas
• Take bike rides with mom in his bike trailor
  

The other day Joshua woke up from his nap and his cousins were down stairs playing in a fort they had made. He was so excited he crawled right into the fort and played around with his cousins.

Bath time is Joshua's favorite activities, he could splash around for hours if I would let him.

MARRIED FOR 2 YEARS! WAHOO

Mike and I had our second anniversary last weekend. I can't believe how time has flown. I am married to the most wonderful person and couldn't be happier. So much has happened in just a short two years. 

Our highlights of our two years of marriage are:

-Honeymoon to Guatemala
-Moved to Rexburg
-Mike and I graduating with our bachelors degrees from BYU Idaho
-Moving to Minnesota for a summer to sell pest control together
-A trip to New York
-Starting a business
-Moving back to Burley
-Building a home
-Having an adorable son join our family

 Life is exciting, this year for our anniversary Mike surprised me by taking me to Las Vegas we had such a fun time. We wondered through all the huge hotels, went swimming, and enjoyed evening entertainment of Le Reve " an awesome aquatic circus show", Phantom of the Opera, and Tournament of the Kings. It was good to get away and have a fun time. The best part was going to listen to a time share pitch and getting free tickets to Phantom of the Opera!! That was my favorite. You can not beat the music and theater for that show. It was absolutely amazing.

Joshua was completely entertained as we walk around Vegas as long as he was sucking his thumb or sucking his toesIt is starting to be quite the adventure taking Joshua out to eat, he is so quick in a blink of an eye he can have our plates thrown to the ground and our waters tipped overCool dues chillin in the sun!

Having a great time swimming, Joshua could swim for hours

SEVEN MONTHS OLD YEA!!

Our little man is Seven Months. Wow time has flown by. Joshua has been such a delight and wonderful addition. 

He's a vacuum

Joshua has mastered crawling this week along with sitting up one his own.  Now that he can move around so well he has become our vacuum cleaner. As he moves across the floor anything and everything goes into his mouth. Well twice this week when Joshua was vacuuming our floor he could not quite swallow what he found and chocked on a small piece of glass and something else from our kitchen floor. I was sooo scary. Now we are going to clean the floor everyday.We can't have that happen again. 

This morning Mike and I were waiting for Joshua to wake up so we could go to church at nine o'clock. We waited and waited and heard nothing and it was 8:50a.m. therefore I sent Mike upstairs to check on him and this is what he found. Joshua was stuck with his legs hanging out of the cribs. It was hilarious and Joshua was perfectly content.

LITTLE BEAR

Joshua with Grandma Handy at Lava Hot Springs. Two weekends ago we decided to camp out at Lava with the Handys and it so happened to be a rainy weekend. Everything was soaking wet and it was cold. But the swimming pool was still open on saturday morning and the best thing was there were no lines for the slides or diving boards. We had the pool to ourselves. It was really fun besides the fact we nearly froze anytime we got out of the water. After we were done going on the slides and diving boards we drove over to the hot pools to warm up. Then we finished our adventure with a wonderful Thai Restaurant. YUMMY.

Grandma Craney and Grandma Ramsey took a trip to Yellowstone and they brought back an adorable bear hat and some fun outfits. They love shopping for him. I don't blame them thats why I try to stay away from the baby sections in stores. I don't know what kind of face he is pulling here but we got a good laugh from it.

1st Video:

Mike playing the guitar for Joshua. He absolutely loves it. He gives Mike 100% attention.

2nd Video:

Joshua has discovered that kitchen knobs are pretty tasty! When I'm cooking Joshua is in the corner sucking on the knob.

JULY activites

 4th of JULY

 For the 4th of July, Grandma Handy bought all the grandchildren 4th of July outfits! One day I strapped Joshua to me and played the guitar he was in heaven. Joshua has fingured out how to semi- crawl.

The Johnny Jumper is a new favorite of Joshuas!

 Idaho Folk Festival:

Mike and I had a blast during the folk festival. We hosted the director of the Taiwan and 2 twelve year old girls. We were also team guides so we spent a lot of time with the Taiwan team. They all absolutely adored Joshua. Everywhere I took him he was surrounded. He always showered them with his charming smile. The week was full of fun activities such as going to city of rocks, Shoshone Falls, Boating, Picnics, Late night games, and lot of yummy treats