Andover Visit

Here are some pics from the weekend. Most are from our trip to Andover on Saturday but some are from Mom and Dad's after church on Sunday. Joaquin is all over the place now. As you can see from the pic of Joaquin and Grammy it can really wear you out.



Crawling through his tunnel.

Joaquin and Grammy napping.

Chillin with Grandpa.

Trying to give Wyatt a kiss.

Joaquin loves his cousin Wyatt. He kept trying to give him kisses. Wyatt wasn't so sure about Joaquin though.

Trying to give Molly a kiss. Molly is much nicer and more tolerable of children than Hoover is.... Joaquin was so excited to actually be able to pet her, Hoover always runs away from him.

He was watching Wyatt.

Joaquin in his "jail cell" or crib at Grammy and Grandpa's.

Baby Shower and Crawling

Today was Megan's baby shower. We got a few pics at the shower. I'm also posting some pics I have from Easter and some video I have gotten over the last week showing Joaquin crawling. Earlier this week Joaquin had to go to the doctor to recheck his ears and have his 9 month checkup even though he isn't quite 9 months yet. He weighed 20 1/2 lbs and is 29 inches long. The doctor said his ear infection is gone, so that's good :) We have to wait until he is 12 months before switching him off of the Alimentum formula though. His doctor recommended switching to soy milk and when he is 14-16 months old we can start trying to switch to regular milk. She said we can try giving him yogurt and cheese at 12 months as well. The other day I gave him something that I didn't realize had dry milk and buttermilk in it... and instantly he had hives where it had touched him. We just put some cortisone cream on it and he was fine, but he definitely is still allergic to milk right now. Even when he had the hives he didn't cry, just was scratching a lot. He keeps amazing me as to how easy going and happy of a baby he is!

With Megan.... she's gotta get used to this :)

Lately it seems Joaquin always has his tongue like this... but often he is also grabbing it with his hands.

With grandpa Tommie

A video of him crawling on Easter Sunday.

Easter Weekend

I still need to upload pictures that we got on Easter Sunday, so here are some pictures that Mom and Dad took while they had him Easter weekend. Hopefully this weekend I will finally be able to upload the pictures and take some video of him crawling.

Ready to start walking any day now...

Joaquin loves to visit with Great-Grandpa Bob.

With his Easter basket.

The family at church.

Getting ready for some cruising.

Crawling. He actually made it through the morning in the vest that Grammie knit for him.

more crawling.

Playin some basketball. I need to get a video of this as well. He can dunk the ball :)

And He's Off....

I really need to get a video but Joaquin is really crawling now! For the past week or so he has been moving a little bit, but not far. Then this weekend he just took off. He is crawling all over the place! And pulling himself up on things. I don't think it's going to be long before he's walking.

Eatin and drinkin

Joaquin has recently started eating puffs and drinking from a sippy cup. As you can tell from these videos, he has not mastered either skill yet. He loves picking up puffs and putting them in his mouth, but he still hasn't figured out how to swallow them and usually ends up coughing until he spits them out. He is always quite vocal when he has his sippy cup, but he still hasn't figured out he has to hold it at a higher angle in order to actually drink from it. At least he is happy :)

This morning when Chris went to get Joaquin from his crib he was standing up and chewing on the top rail. So this afternoon I moved the mattress to the lowest setting and finally took out his bumpers. When Chris put him to bed he sat himself up and cried for a few minutes but pretty quickly went to sleep. He's also crawling a little bit. It depends on the surface that he is on, but most of the time he can move forward at least a little bit. He is just growing up so fast!

Pickle Bills

Sundays at Pickle Bills Grandma's eat free from 1-4pm if their grandchildren take them out to eat. So of course Joaquin had to take his Grammie Vickery out for lunch! He had a great time banging his phone rattle on the table through most of lunch and of course Grammie and Grandpa were glad to spend some time with him. In the entryway there is a cutout where you can take your picture so of course we had to do this. It's amazing how tall Joaquin had gotten, isn't it? :)