As I just wrote the blog below, my adorable 23 month old has taken chocolate chip pancakes out of the freezer and is eating them..... frozen! Double fisted.
We have so much fun here!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
JOSHY!
Joshua is now 7 weeks (and some change) old. By estimation of my weighing methods, he is about 12-13 pounds and is already wearing 3 month and some 3-6 month clothes. He has adorable chunky legs and still is sporting the big chubby cheeks. The dark hair hasn't fallen out yet so it will be interesting to see if he keeps that or loses it all like Jake did and then grow in blonde hair. If he keeps the dark hair, he may end up looking more like a Gunning after all (Paul would be thrilled...).
He is starting to fall into some patterns as well which is a relief. He is especially good with his sleeping pattern at night. He is sound asleep by 10pm and then up around 2am and 6am to eat. He has a period of wakefulness around 7 or 8 in the morning and then he dozes back off and usually takes a pretty good snoozer for most of the morning. He tends to be more awake (and a tad fussy) in the late afternoon and early evening. This sometimes makes it difficult to juggle making dinner for Jake and trying to give him a bath and put him to bed but thank goodness for the baby bjorn! Josh loves it.
He is smiling and cooing up a storm these days! He is a very smily little man... doesn't take much to make him grin (as long as he isn't in a grumpy mood!). Jake really seems to adore him. He looks forward to saying "hi" to him in the morning and giving him a kiss. He often times asks to hold Josh and enjoys to just lounge back and let his little brother chill next to him (supervised of course!!). Sometimes he is a little mischevious with trying to put his feet in Josh's face or "head butting" him but we're working on that.
Couple new pictures of the little man below so you can see that he is losing his "newborn look" and is really starting to look like a baby!
He is starting to fall into some patterns as well which is a relief. He is especially good with his sleeping pattern at night. He is sound asleep by 10pm and then up around 2am and 6am to eat. He has a period of wakefulness around 7 or 8 in the morning and then he dozes back off and usually takes a pretty good snoozer for most of the morning. He tends to be more awake (and a tad fussy) in the late afternoon and early evening. This sometimes makes it difficult to juggle making dinner for Jake and trying to give him a bath and put him to bed but thank goodness for the baby bjorn! Josh loves it.
He is smiling and cooing up a storm these days! He is a very smily little man... doesn't take much to make him grin (as long as he isn't in a grumpy mood!). Jake really seems to adore him. He looks forward to saying "hi" to him in the morning and giving him a kiss. He often times asks to hold Josh and enjoys to just lounge back and let his little brother chill next to him (supervised of course!!). Sometimes he is a little mischevious with trying to put his feet in Josh's face or "head butting" him but we're working on that.
Couple new pictures of the little man below so you can see that he is losing his "newborn look" and is really starting to look like a baby!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
MA MA!
This morning Jake called for me from his room with "ma, mama"! I know it probably doesn't sound like that big of a deal and he has been saying "mama" when asked for a month or so now but this is the first time he has actually called out for me/ asked for me by saying mama. I was so excited that it didn't matter that it was 5:45 in the morning and I had been up since 5 with Joshua and all I wanted to do was sleep. I was just happy to hear him really starting to use his words! (Side note -- he is now in his toddler bed and we put a gate up at his door for the first time last night to see if that would help keep him in his room instead of coming into our room multiple times during the night. He slept in his bed from 9:30pm to 5:45am straight! Now we just have to work on getting to bed a little earlier...)
He is also saying a variety of other words and will try to mimic pretty much everything you ask him to say (if he is in the right mood and wants to do it!). Besides mama, he is also saying dada, ball, doggie, bye bye, hi, car, airplane, mo mo (for Mosley), sorry, thank you, and a few others. He is doing well with his signs too. He can sign for food, drink, more, all done, thank you, please, and help.
We continue to do speech therapy every other week and it's helping but I think a lot of it is Paul and I being more conscious of how to help him learn how to speak and use his mouth to make the right sounds and also a lot of him just being ready to start talking. The goal is for him to be pretty much caught up with his speech by the time he is three. I think he is definitely on the right path!
He is also saying a variety of other words and will try to mimic pretty much everything you ask him to say (if he is in the right mood and wants to do it!). Besides mama, he is also saying dada, ball, doggie, bye bye, hi, car, airplane, mo mo (for Mosley), sorry, thank you, and a few others. He is doing well with his signs too. He can sign for food, drink, more, all done, thank you, please, and help.
We continue to do speech therapy every other week and it's helping but I think a lot of it is Paul and I being more conscious of how to help him learn how to speak and use his mouth to make the right sounds and also a lot of him just being ready to start talking. The goal is for him to be pretty much caught up with his speech by the time he is three. I think he is definitely on the right path!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Race for the Cure 2009
A couple weekends ago, we participated in the 2009 Komen Global Race for the Cure in DC. This is my 7th year participating (as a team captain) and along with me were Paul, Jake, Walt, Gretchen, and Allison along with members of my team from GDIT. (We left Joshua with Kathy at home :-)). Our team raised almost $6,000 for the fight against breast cancer.
Nearly 45,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on June 6th to take a stand in the global movement to end breast cancer forever. Each year, up to 75% of the Komen Global Race's net income stays in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to fund local screening, treatment and education programs for the medically underserved. The remaining dollars support the Global Promise Fund which is dedicated to reaching underserved people in areas where breast cancer mortality rates are the highest. This year's event raised $4.3 million.
Slideshow of pics above from the morning of the race.
Nearly 45,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on June 6th to take a stand in the global movement to end breast cancer forever. Each year, up to 75% of the Komen Global Race's net income stays in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to fund local screening, treatment and education programs for the medically underserved. The remaining dollars support the Global Promise Fund which is dedicated to reaching underserved people in areas where breast cancer mortality rates are the highest. This year's event raised $4.3 million.
Slideshow of pics above from the morning of the race.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Master Escape Artist
We've been having some issues getting Jake to sleep at night lately. Which is odd because he has always been a good sleeper and usually always went right down after a couple stories. Well this started off with him just falling asleep in our bed after about 30 minutes of cartoons and then we would transfer him to his crib and all would be good to go in dreamland. Well the last couple of nights have been torture. He has laid in our bed for an hour or two and just will not go to sleep. I have tried putting him in his crib and letting him cry it out (and boy does he WAIL) and nothing has worked. And you can tell he is tired. He practically passes out when I try to read him story after story or sing songs.
Well the little booger figured out how to escape from his crib today. He did it once and came downstairs and scared the crap out of me. The second time, I watched him do it and boy does he just swing his legs right on over and drop.... Now we're really in trouble. More joys of toddlerhood!
Well the little booger figured out how to escape from his crib today. He did it once and came downstairs and scared the crap out of me. The second time, I watched him do it and boy does he just swing his legs right on over and drop.... Now we're really in trouble. More joys of toddlerhood!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Green Mommy
Lessons learned -- don't let your two year old see you wearing a green facial mask before bedtime. It didn't scare him. Instead, he was so intrigued that he came downstairs to point and laugh for an extended period of time. The littlest one doesn't seem to mind one way or another.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Burke Lake Park
Paul and I took the boys to Burke Lake Park on a recent Tuesday afternoon (pics below). My mom took my brother and I there all the time when we were little and I have very fond memories of riding the train and carousel there. It was fun to go back there and take my little guys to enjoy the rides! Jake also enjoyed feeding the ducks with Daddy!
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