The first black eye . . . and so it begins

I told you I was slow at updating this thing lately! Keep in mind, this happened on Monday, and I am just now remembering to write about it. Also, I have not taken my usual photographic documentation as of yet, hopefully, for photographic evidences sake, I can get one tonight, even though it's just about gone now.

So anyways, on to the story!

Now that Joshua the Terrible can crawl, and stand, and dance, and hop. Those are, of course, his favorite things to do! He thinks it is especially funny to stand at the end of the coffee table, opposite my computer and play peek-a-boo with me. This is what he was doing when he hurt himself. He had crawled over to the table and pulled himself up and squealed with delight, as he often does (see video in previous post) and was walking along the edge of the table. He got the point where he could watch me hide behind my computer and poke out at him, which makes him laugh and was pretty happy standing there for about 30 seconds, (typical attention span of an 8-month-old i think) and then, something else caught his eye.

I'm not sure what he saw, but he was looking at something on the ground and hopping a little bit, then he squatted down to reach for said object. He was doing fine until he leaned back away from the table, edge at eye level, and went to grab something out of reach and hit his face smack, on the edge of the table. He cried for a couple seconds, and then he was fine, he wasn't bleeding, and it wasn't swollen, and didn't look bruised yet so I wasn't worried. The next morning though, he woke up with a full-fledged shiner. He is a boy, and i suspected it would happen sooner or later, but somehow I thought he'd be walking on his own, but our boy is crafty, and curious, and never ceases to surprise us with the things he can do. 

So that is the story of Joshua's first shiner. I'll try to get a picture up here too! Below is a picture I took on my cell phone of him playing peek-a-boo behind my computer while I was working one day. How can anyone not love that face!?

Tomorrow Joshua and I are going to Charmingfare Farm for Liam's first birthday party! Happy birthday Liam! 

Tooth #3

Joshua's 3rd tooth cut it's way through yesterday, finally! The top four middle teeth have all been right on the edge for what feels like forever now, and the last month, I'd say he's been going through fussy fits, and having stretches of not sleeping through the night and hating naps. I had guessed it was those darn teeth finally getting ready to make an appearance and I think I may have been right! He was over his Great Grammy Nikki's house yesterday while we worked and he was in a sour mood for most of the day from what I hear. When we got home at the end of the day I took a peek in that little mouth again even though there was nothing new cutting that morning, and there was the tooth! Funny though, I was told the two top middles came in after the bottom two, and he got the right side tooth that is next to the middle two first haha. Though, I think the other 3 are right behind that one, I have a feeling in the next week or two they will all be cutting through. I can see all the edges of the little teeth poking on the gums from the inside, they just haven't forced their way out yet. Now, I can only hope that they all come through at once, in the night, while he is asleep, and he doesn't wake up while it's happening... that would be good.

It's the great pumpkin!

Today Joshua, Jay and I went on a family trip to Mack's Apples in Londonderry. Joshua had his first pumpkin pickin' experience. All the pumpkins were out of the fields we wanted to go to so we just went to the main farm stand and took some pictures and picked out a pumpkin and some other goodies.

It was a brisk 45ish degrees outside so we were glad we dressed Joshua warmly and in a hat, and not glad we didn't wear hats ourselves! But it was a great day for photos and we got some good ones, Joshua was in good spirits and sat and smiled wherever we put him. He even got to go for his first wagon ride, which did not last long, because he kept trying to eat the dirt and grossness that was on the bottom of the wagon. Typical. But we picked out a nice big pumpkin we are going to carve later, and bake the seeds, got a home made chicken pot pie (which was delicious) and some cider and apple cider donuts (also delicious).

Here are some select pictures from the trip, the rest are on flickr and there are some on facebook too. Enjoy!

8 month update!

I know I am a little late with this one, but things have been pretty busy in the Pearlman household!

But yes, our little tyke is 8 months old already! I can't believe it, and all I can think of, is how fast the next 4 are going to go before he turns one! Which means I need to start planning his first birthday party, eek! Also, it's October, which means Joshua's first halloween, so he is wearing his robot halloween costume in some of his pictures this month!

With 8 months of life comes many changes for little Josh. He is a fast crawling machine now, and loves to stand up. He pretty much hates napping on most days because he knows there are better things for him to do, and put in his mouth. But he is still a very mellow, good mannered baby! He is happy and smiling unless he is sich, hungry, or tired (or teething...which he currently is) He loves to stand up, and try to balance without holding on. He is also getting pretty good at furniture walking without falling down, didn't take him long, and I fear full-fledged walking may be right around the corner for us! Watch out world!

The top four teeth that have been fighting their way down for the past three months are still not in yet, but getting so close! I can see the little white edges of them now, and of course it's all four at once making it 4 times as fun for him and us! But I guess, all the better this way, killes four birds with one, very long, sleepless, stone . . . so to speak!

So that's all for that I guess. Here are some of the 8 month photos, and you can check flickr and facebook for more!

Joshua Standing up - the video.

Proof

Well I could never catch him standing up before even though he's been doing it for awhile now, but lately he has been pulling himself up on everything and trying to furniture walk. So, I now have photographic evidence.

Joshua is also earning himself a new nickname: "the Goat," because he eats EVERYTHING! Dirt on the floor, the animals, legs of the coffee table and chairs, dog dish... anything else he can grab, or lick... in the mouth! I learned this morning that if joshua is on the floor, I can not take my eyes off of him for a second. This morning, I was sitting on the floor playing with him and I brought my coffee mug to the side of the coffee table where I was sitting, it was near the edge, but not too close (or so I thought). Funny thing is, as I  was moving it I was thinking, "maybe I shouldn't do that, he will probably get a hold of it somehow and it'll be everywhere . . . nahhhh." But, alas, I was sitting right there so I figured, it would be fine, I looked away for literally a second, still sitting in the same spot... Joshua decided he needed to see what I was drinking, and turbo speed crawled over to the table, stood up, and pulled my half full mug of coffee off the table and onto me, him, and the floor. Luckily, it wasn't very hot, and no one got hurt, but I think I scared him because of my reaction of shock and sadness that my coffee was on the floor! He made a frowny "uht-oh" face, but no tears. We both got changed, rug got cleaned, and all was well again.

Poor guy has also had hives on and off for 3 days now. We have no idea what from, they aren't bad like the first time he got them because of the milk. They disappear as fast as they appear, and I am told it bothers the parents more than the baby. He is still his happy self, eating and sleeping and getting into trouble, so I was told to give him benadryl two times a day today and tomorrow and see if it will knock the allergy he is having out of his system.

I know this update was long, and there will be another in a week when he turns 8 months (ALREADY?!) And I plan on dressing him in his halloween costume for his photo shoot since he didn't get to wear it yet. :) Be excited!

Standing up! 

Chewing on the corner of the coffee table

Licking the window . . .

Looking cute to distract me from the fact that he was just licking the window.