I love my Daddy

Joaquin is growing up so fast! He still loves to put everything in his mouth, which as you can see from this blog includes anything from spoons to phones to Daddy's head! He has also started saying "da da" like crazy. One day he said it for 45 minutes straight! I keep trying to get him to say "ma ma" and he will on occasion but not like he says "da da." He is done with his antibiotic and is feeling much better although he still has a stuffy nose. He is getting increasingly more difficult to change as he keeps turning himself over while we are trying to change his diaper. And I do mean "we".... if we are both available we usually both do it b/c it's getting that hard! He is always trying to reach for the light switch, so maybe if we moved the changing table, but I don't know where else we would put it... and I'm not really sure it would help.

Sunday morning Joaquin was baptized. Of course Chris and I forgot our camera so here are some pics from Grammie and Grandpa. Joaquin was sick, but he managed pretty well. By the time we went home though he was way overstimulated :(

Four generations:

Breneda and Joaquin:

GG, GP and Joaquin:

All of the grandparents and great-grandparents that came to the baptism, with Joaquin of course :

Our little man :)

He listened to every word Randy had to say :)

Pics from last weekend

So many of you have already seen these pics, but I figured I'd post them here for those of you who didn't get the email from Dad, and because I didn't have anything else to post from the week. I've not had the chance to take any pics of Joaquin all week. Most days Chris had to drop him off at daycare and pick him up because I am trying to get used to taking ambien now. Let's just say it's not working very well yet and I've been very tired all week :( I am REALLY looking forward to having some time off of work next week and Joaquin being able to meet his great-grandparents Helen and Don for the first time. They are flying out for his baptism which is next Sunday the 22nd. I will definitely get lots of pictures this coming week!

This first pic is one of the only ones taken that day of us as a family. It was a bit windy and it doesn't appear that any of us were quite ready for the picture to be taken ;)

Great-grandma Ruth with Joaquin. Even though he was a bit sick, he was having a ball!

Joaquin next to one of great-grandma's Mickey dolls.

Aunt Laurie with Joaquin. Looks like they are having quite the conversation!

If you look close in this one you can see his two bottom teeth. It's amazing what kind of a difference a week makes... Friday morning I could hardly believe how much they have come out!

And here you can see how tired he was... He only got 1 one hour long nap that day. He's been doing that during the week at daycare a lot lately, but usually when he is home with us he sleeps much more. We just had too much to do that day!

Here he is trying to crawl. He is VERY close to crawling now. He sticks his little but high in the air and his little legs go to town... but he can't quite figure out what to do with his arms yet.

Grandma and Joaquin with that teething-drooling grin :)

Four generations of "Vickerys." Joaquin loves his great-grandpa Bob

Cousin Becky and Joaquin.

First Tooth!

Yesterday Joaquin turned 7 months old, and had his first tooth break through. He's had two top and two bottom teeth very close the past few days and one finally broke through the skin. I discovered this when he was trying to suck on one of my fingers and all of the sudden there was pain in my finger! He's doing surprisingly well with the teething. I thought he might have a tough time with it, but he has continued to be the happy baby that he always is.

Peek-a-Boo

Earlier this week Grandma and Grandpa stopped by on their way home from work to get a little Joaquin time since they are feeling a bit deprived lately. Grandma started playing peek-a-boo with Joaquin and I have never heard him laugh so hard! We decided we should get it on video... and of course as soon as he saw that camera he stopped laughing, but here is a short clip. Also a pic, since it was a bit dark in the room when I took the video chip.

Joaquin is doing well at daycare, but still having problems napping and he is teething so that isn't helping. He also managed to get us all sick. Chris, myself, Grandpa, and some of my coworkers have all become sick in the last few days. Joaquin just had the sniffles and didn't seem to be too bothered by it other than the fact that someone had to keep wiping his nose.

Valentine's Day and Starging Daycare

Joaquin spent Valentine's Day weekend with his grandparents since Chris and I both had to work. As you can see he had a blast (as did grammie and grandpa). The pics were emailed from grandpa which is why they are smaller than the others.

This first picture was taken a few days ago while Joaquin was playing video games with Chris.


Today was Joaquin's first day at daycare. I managed to make it to the car before I started crying, but Joaquin had a wonderful day. He managed to take 3 30-45 minute naps, which is less than the 4 hours he would have gotten at home.. but more than I thought he'd get on his first day there. The daycare has the same jumper that we have at home, so when I left him he was in that happy as can be. When we picked him up he had just finished eating and started jumping when he saw us :) After we got home I had to go grocery shopping... and when I came home this is what I saw... I just couldn't resist snapping a picture. Apparently daycare is exhausting stuff... for everyone!

Here are the pics from grandpa. Could you ask for a cuter cupid? :)

Old Skool

Joaquin was really jumpin in his jumper this evening, so we decided to get a video of him jumping to the beat of the old Kriss Kross song, "Jump Jump". In true Joaquin style as soon as the camera was brought out he slowed down. He enjoyed watching Chris jump in an effort to get Joaquin to jump more. He has little bits of jumping and really starts up again at the end but he did really love watching Chris jump!