Joshua came with me to a conference I had to attend for Religious School. It was a the UAHC Camp Coleman in Cleveland, Georgia. We flew up Wednesday and came home yesterday.
Joshua loved the plane. On the way TO Atlanta, he slept through EVERYthing -- take off and landing included. On the way back, he watched out the window and was talking to everyone/everything he could. He especially enjoyed the seat pattern for some reason!
Camp was a rather dismal experience for me. Josh loved that too though. Why? He got to be held, cuddled, loved, played with and generally be the center of attention for six days straight! Four at camp and two with his cousins. What more could a kid want?
On Saturday, Joshua turned six months old. My son is now one half of a year old. It's scary how fast time flies. I mean, it all seems so quick. First we were waiting for him, then he was born and we had his surgery coming up, now surgery is over, everything is fine and somehow he's already six months old! What's even worse is that I'm planning his first birthday party already!
posted by babypundit (all rights reserved 2003) at 8:29 AM
Monday, August 11, 2003
Time
Time flies. It is now TWO months post-op for Joshua. He's almost crawling. He's almost got teeth through. He's LOVING his brother. They play together everyday and Josh laughs his little butt off at Andy. It's amazing how precious and sweet a baby's laugh is.
Joshua has now met everyone in the "immediate" families. He met Greatmom Harriett this weekend. We drove to Florida to see her because she's in the hospital -- having had a heart catheter and stent put in (and we wondered where Josh got it from). She had never met Joshua and was upset by that. The hospital didn't want to let us take him up or let her down -- but after talking to the doctor, Greatmom came down and Joshua met her. She was thrilled. He smiled and cuddled and delighted her. Babies really are the best medicine ever. Don't believe me? Try being upset, mad, depressed, anything but happy when a baby smiles at you or cuddles into you or laughs. It won't happen.
Joshua is an amazing baby. He's recently discovered the joy of reading. He likes to sit with Daddy and Andy and read bedtime stories. He also likes Andy "reading" to him (Andy has memorized almost 40 stories). And he sits with me while I read my books, and when I read his books we lay on the floor together. He is very observant and loves to look at books -- among other things.
Joshua also has discovered the delights of his Megasaucer. It's basically a walker that doesn't move. He's constantly rolling over and moving. He's NEVER in the same place I put him down in -- not even two minutes later. He is like a little inchworm the way he moves. He's so close to crawling but can't quite get it -- so he inches.
He's VERY coordinated. Grabbing at things and getting them -- EVERYTHING to the mouth. Andy never put things in his mouth and therefore I really didn't babyproof much. Plugs were covered, cabinets with chemicals and heavy things locked, but really that's it. With Josh, I'm going to have to babyproof ALL of it. He's a great baby (at least until I try to sleep this week, that is!).
His scar is fading. Almost invisible from a distance and it'll fade more. Up close you can obviously see it, but now instead of reliving the horrible feelings of the surgery, I think about what a miracle G-d and science have created.
For those of you that will want to see them, I will have Joshua's surgery pictures up soon -- hopefully by next week. And for those of you that don't want to see the surgery pictures -- I'll have recent pictures of my baby up.
posted by babypundit (all rights reserved 2003) at 10:05 PM
