Josh Gets a Chair

Josh has been completely smitten with this chair. It came from Santa (John Bosco). He plays with it pretty much non-stop - climbing up into it, then standing on it and making my heart stop. The boy has no fear. He thinks that climbing is the very best thing ever. I told Curt last night that we would have to be careful not to place the chair anywhere that he could use it as a stepping stone to more things to climb. Curt advised me that Josh is already "driving" his chair around the room. Egads. Will we survive? Start from the bottom to get the pictures in order.


Up, up, up he goes. Then he checks to see if we're watching.

Back in the afternoon for another round of "explore the chair." 

 

Daddy intervened and had him sit down again. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's just the right height for climbing. 

Josh got a new chair. He likes it a lot! 

Aha! Rewarded! Josh has discovered that feeding the dogs is great fun! The dogs have discovered that taking food from Josh is easy! 

Sammy watches oh so patiently as Josh eats cheerios. 

Fun with Jonny and a metal martini glass. 

Here's Josh - ready to pack up and ship out for Christmas. 

Maybe I should peel that banana? 

See what happens when you turn your head for a moment? The little beastie climbed up the step stool I had left out. Thankfully Curt was paying attention. 

Poor little guy was so unhappy. He's 21 pounds now, which is the 25 percentile. He's in the 45th percentile for height. 

12 Month Doctor's Visit

Josh had his 12 month doctor's visit on Wednesday of this week. In this shot he's already cranky, and hasn't even gotten his shots yet. 

Our days of sitting down to have a little snack are over. As soon as Curt sat down, Josh came to investigate and Fozzie began a patient vigil. Unfortunately, Josh is a bit young for tortilla chips. 

Of course sometimes it's just faster to take the direct approach. :) 

He does eventually find his mouth but it's very time consuming to get much food into him. 

Josh did so well with eating his cake that we thought we'd give the spoon another try. He definitely has the scooping part down. It's getting the food into his mouth that's a problem.