sledding

Last weekend Joaquin and I went to Mom and Dad's for church and afterwords did a little "sledding."  Joaquin loved playing outside and didn't want to come in.  We didn't have a sled so Dad pulled Joaquin around in his swing.  Joaquin was so relaxed he almost fell asleep! 

Joaquin by his tree.  The Christmas tree Mom and Dad bought last year and planted.

Joaquin loves my old rocker, and his bears. 

Love that face :)

Visit with Emma, Julia and Samara

This weekend we visited with some friends of mine and their daughters.  Here are some pics of the kids playing together.  Emma and Samara are 2 1/2 and Julia is 10 months old. 

Samara and Emma hugging.

Joaquin and Julia (she has been walking since 8 months old!)

Samara, Emma and Joaquin playing the piano.

Samara and Emma

All the kids playing

Happy New Year!

Joaquin has finally decided he likes wearing his hat, and wanted to wear it in the house before bed the other night.  I think he had it on for an hour or so before we put him to bed.

Joaquin loves grandma's snow globe with baby Jesus and an angel.  He now says something resembling "baby Jesus." 

Playing inside his tent that he got for Christmas.

Emerging from his tent with a HUGE smile :)

Still learning how to use a spoon.  There wasn't any food on it, but at least this time the right end of the spoon made it into his mouth.

Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year. I was lucky to get Christmas Eve and the day before off, so I wasn't as exhausted on Christmas day as I have been in the past couple of years. Christmas Eve we had dinner with Mom and Dad, went to the Christmas Eve service with them and spent the night so that they could see Joaquin open gifts in the morning. He was much more into opening gifts this year and we all had fun watching him. After Mom and Dad's we went home to take a nap and then on to Tommie and Breneda's. Mom and Dad joined us there for dinner as well.

Joaquin on Christmas Eve, playing with the nativity scene.

Doing a little Christmas dance :)

Joaquin LOVES playing with the ceiling light in grandma and grandpa's room

Opening his first present.

Joaquin thought this was a good toy to stand and sit on.

Enjoying the table and chairs that we got him.  It has a whiteboard finish so he can draw on it.

Making his way down the tunnel.  He goes so fast that by the time Chris could snap the picture he was right in his face already!

Joaquin's new favorite toy.  It vibrates and spins all over the place.  Every time it turns on Joaquin gets a huge grin on his face!

First Hair Cut

Saturday Joaquin got his first haircut. I was amazed at how well he did. I thought for sure I was going to have to give him a bottle so he would let someone near his head with scissors but he did great even though it took almost 30 minutes to cut his hair! And that was after about 30 minutes of waiting for his turn.

Later on Saturday we went to Akron to visit with Jim and Laura and Connie and Jerry. Joaquin met Christopher for the first time. Christopher was born July 25, 2009 so Joaquin is almost exactly 1 year older than him and Christopher is the same height as Joaquin was at that age only he is 2 pounds heavier. It's amazing to see the difference in their sizes and remember that just a year ago Joaquin was that small!

Sunday I took Joaquin to get his Christmas pictures taken. They turned out great and hopefully soon I can get those posted.

"School" Pictures

Here are Joaquin's "school" pictures. They did pictures a while back at daycare and we hadn't planned on getting any, so didn't even send Joaquin to school dressed for pictures, but they did the pictures anyway and sent some home recently giving us the option to buy them. We liked them so much that we decided to buy them. Included is his class picture.

Update

Joaquin is doing great these days. We have never really had any problems with him sleeping but now it is super easy. When it is time for him to go to sleep we just say "you want to go night night" and he'll say "nigh nigh." Then we take him to his room and he almost leaps into his crib, lays down, lets us put his blanket over him and he just smiles at us.

His favorite thing to do right now by far is reading. He will find a book, climb into your lap and read the book with you. Then he'll get down find another book and repeat this process for about 20 minutes straight :)

Tonight we discovered something else that makes him smile. He was drinking his last bottle of the night and started to hold it above his face and wait for a drop of milk to fall from the bottle onto his face. He would make a shocked face and then smile and do it again and again and again.