It's been a little busy and distracting around here, so I've sort of let this go by the wayside for a week. Here are the big accomplishments for Joshua that just occurred:
1) He can now actually put his hands together and sort of clap. Last week, he was still waving and thinking he was clapping. But he has now progressed to being able to put his hands together a few times. He is very proud of it! As are we...
2) He has been able to pick up his sippy cup and drink from it, but he has needed help tipping it to actually getting anything out of it. Well, tonight he figured out how to tip the cup himself.
3) He can now turn the light switch on and off. For a while now he has only been able to flip the switch off, but he can now control his thumb and forefinger to grasp the light to turn it on too!
4) He turned 11 months old! Not really an accomplishment, but I can't believe that he is going to be turning 1 next month!
We had a great Memorial Day weekend. The weather here FINALLY cleared up and we had a great 75-80 degree weekend with no rain. On Saturday, we went to a local Bison farm (who knew there were bison in NJ??!) and we looked at the bison and saw some horses. Of course, the farm is there to actually sell bison meat, so we purchased some and had it tonight for dinner. The meat is much leaner, but what was great was that the freshness of the meat made it taste so much better!
Today, we went to a state park that is near our house and went to the pseudo beach. Since we are now New Jerseyans, we are going to The Shore this summer and we thought we would see how Joshua would do with sand. This state park near us has a 'pseudo' beach....it's really just a very small sandy shore along a lake. That's why I call it our pseudo beach! Anyways, Joshua LOVED the sand....it took him a minute or so to get used to it, but he keep picking it up and letting it drop out of his fingers. We didn't get in the water since it was still only 58 degrees, but we put his feet in it and he actually sat in it because he wanted to touch the water. So, that makes us look forward to our trip to The Shore even more now that we know that Joshua enjoys it.
Other than that, we went to the playground and played and overall had a terrific weekend. It was nice to have Derek hang out with us for an extra day.
2 comments:
A beach is a beach is a beach. Sometimes we have to take what we can get - which I will soon have to do myself.
Is that an Ergo carrier schlepping your little cutie around? I love mine.
hehe joshua is adorable. ^_^ and hmm the beach sounds like fun.
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