Life with Joshua: Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'.......

Josh has been a busy boy! As you can see by the title, he is "rollin'" in more ways than one. We now put a baricade of pillows at the end of the carpet in the living room otherwise, who knows where he will end up. He is quite adept at rolling both directions, whichever suits his purpose. He has been known to get stuck under the futon, though, so we usually have to put pillows under there too.

We have a fun new hobby (baby yoga class doesn't start again until next month and music class is off for the summer, so we needed a new "Get out of the house" card to play), we went rollerskating on Tuesday! Yep, every Monday and Tuesday the roller rink has "Stroller Fitness" for 2 hours. So you put munchkin in the stoller, strap on the skates, and get your cardio in! I met up with 3 other moms and babies from a online message board. Someone was kind enough to start rounding up all the local women and putting us together, so as we were chatting, someone suggested the skating idea. It was great fun to meet the other moms that I had been talking too and gave Josh a chance to meet more babies. Most of us hadn't been skating since we were teenagers, so it was a good laugh. The funniest thing was that even though it was a rink I had never been to before, it SMELLED just like the rink in Everett used too! And pretty much looked the same too. I guess that look/smell is universal! I can't remember all the songs, but let's just say we skated to YMCA and 99 Red Balloons, so you can get an idea of the music we heard. We definitely plan on going back again next week, you can work up a sweat doing it and the babies loved the speed!

Did I mention that Josh had a great 6-month check up? He weighs 19lbs and is 27.5 inches (which explains why all of his sleepers are suddenly stretched to the max!) He has put on 3 pounds and grown about 3 inches in the past 2 months! He is a bit skeptical about the whole solid food thing but here is what he has tried so far and his verdict:

Rice Cereal :)
Multi-grain Cereal :)
Bananas :( :( :(
Apple Sauce :) :) :)
Watermelon :)
French Fry :

I've stewed the prunes already today, so those are next on the list....he just doesn't know it yet!
Oh, the picture in the grass was taken in the backyard under one of the fruit trees, he was playing with Lexi (Auntie Mick's cat) and having a blast outside. The had fun until Lexi decided to spar with him a bit and he got scared although Lexi didn't really do anything to him. He still doesn't quite know what to make of her.

I can't think of much else that has been going on. We got a new porch swing (YAY!) that Michael and I put together last weekend. Josh and I have story time out there most days and it is always a nice spot to sit and nurse him in the evenings. He likes to hang out on the swing with daddy too, they watch the leaves on the trees and Lexi most of the time.

Josh and Lexi under the fruit tree.