10 months old...who?

When I hear 10 months old I look around to see whose baby is that old, can't be our son...time is flying by!
He is doing great! Especially his transitioning into toddlerhood with his tantrums...least we know he's on target or slightly ahead ;o)

Tick bite, GRRR

I found a tick behind Joel's ear this morning around 11 am. It was defiantly a deer tick and definitely attached. I pulled it off and put alcohol behind his ear.
I am so mad, I hate ticks!
I marked it on the calendar and we'll watch him for any symptoms, GRRR!
I am pretty sure he got it on him some time yesterday afternoon as we were at the lake raking leaves. He got a bath Saturday night so I don't think it was there then. I hope and pray he is fine!

Oh wear, Oh wear???

Okay, I'm looking for my easy going, napping happily baby boy...anyone?

Our easy going little man has been replaced with a tantruming, grumpy Gus who just doesn't want to nap...come back, come back sweet baby, Joel...

Thoughts

I just read on one of the web boards I follow of a couple who just adopted their baby boy and she mentioned how emotionally draining it was.

My reply: It's a journey of a million emotions that one can't begin to describe or put into words.

I am so happy when I read these stories of adoption miracles.

I've been really watching Joel lately as he plays and interacts with other's and been thinking of how he doesn't know he wasn't born into all this, all this love and fun. How lucky he is to be given such a good life and how lucky we are to be his parents.

Standing

On his own, WOW!
We has stood once or twice during the past few weeks for a few seconds without holding on. Today at a friend's pumpkin party, he let go of the little chair he was holding on to and stood by himself for at least 10 seconds and he did this over and over about 4 times...so exciting!

Oh, what fun it is to flush the toilet, LOL

Joel was hanging out in the bathroom this morning with Dada while he put his contacts in and he thought it was fun to use the lid of the toilet to play drums, but even more fun is to flush the toilet over and over again.........LOL!

Bye~Bye bottles (bittersweet)

For the past week JB hasn't had a bottle (okay, I did sneak in a couple here and there just because I can't believe he is off them).
We introduced him to a sippy cup at 4 months old when we started giving him cereal/solids. We'd put in a bit of water and have him experiment with the cup. We have a few different brands and he'd sip out of all of them, but not take much of an amount. We'd give him water, watered down juice or his formula and again just sips.
He drinks from open cups at playgroup and sometimes at home, he likes to do this, especially blow bubbles into the cup.
So, I bought him these cups called trainer bottles from Green Sprouts (resembles a bottle a little more then I'd like, but for him who used Playtex bottles, it is quite different). He took right to them and drinks all his formula out of them. He'll cuddle up with us just like he did with his bottles and he loves the handles on these cups so he can get a good grip on them. Like I said earlier I'd give him a bottle here and there and he could care less about it...which I know is great and makes for a good time to just switch over without a fuss.
We'll be doing just that. I just can't believe our baby is going to be off bottles. I had planned on slowly weaning him to this cup and have him off his bottles at 1 year, but he took right to it without looking back. We'll keep giving him his formula in the trainer bottles and I have introduced him to some whole milk in his sippy, about 1 oz at a time with a meal.
So...Bye~Bye bottles, OMG!