Things Joaquin brought to the couch

Joaquin has started to carry just about anything around and likes to then bring them to the couch. Here is a look at what he brought to the couch a couple of days ago.

Hurricane Joaquin

Lately we feel as if we've been hit by category 5 hurricane Joaquin. He seems to look around for things to destroy. As soon as we get the house picked up he destroys it. Luckily he's cute. He also seems to be a bottomless pit. We can't seem to feed him enough. I think he is eating more than Chris now!

Here are some pics and videos from this week. The first picture is Joaquin playing his piano while seated on his batman blowup punching thing (I can't think of what they are called...). The second picture is one where Chris decided to make a face like Joaquin does all the time. The first video is Chris dancing with Joaquin doing a Hammer dance. Normally this cracks Joaquin up and he laughs and laughs the whole time. Of course when I brought out the camera he stopped doing that and we only got a couple of laughs out of him. The second video shows Joaquin walking on the couch. He loves to try and climb the couch and point at the lion pictures above. Also he loves to screech as you will hear! The last video shows Joaquin with his new backpack from GG and GP. He loves carrying it around. I try to get him to say thank you which he has started to do lately, but of course he won't do it for the camera.

Dining with Joaquin

Time has gotten away from me these past few weeks. Joaquin is growing and changing so much. He now refuses to let us feed him most of the time, so as you will see meals are quite the messy affair at our house. He has also become very clingy to me. This last weekend I was home with him all weekend and he wouldn't let me out of his sight and much more than usual wanted me to hold him. He still loves running around but since he doesn't get much time with me usually I think he just didn't want to let me go.

We gave Joaquin a small piece of american cheese the other day and he did fine with it, and a few days later gave him mac and cheese and he did fine with that as well. So today grilled cheese was on the menu at daycare and we told them it was ok for him to have it but he broke out in a rash on his face after eating it :( We think maybe it is cheese food that they use at daycare and that is why he reacted? I guess we will just have to keep trying cheese at home for a while. We are going to start mixing his soy milk with regular milk and see how he does with that.

Joaquin had his 12 month well check visit in the middle of August. He weighed in at 24 lbs and is 31 inches tall. So he is still average for his weight but in the 90th percentile for his height and head circumference.