Funny things Josh finds to do

He likes to chase his shadow when he is outside and wave at it :) In the family room we have the perfect set up with a light and wall so he can walk right up to his shadow. If he isn't waving at it he is kissing it :)

He took the empty diaper box and after crawling on it for a couple of days, one side caved in.
He then created his own slide, he would climb up on the tall side, then would "slide" down saying "weeeeeeee", it was so adorable. I felt bad that he was trying to create his own little playground, so I took him to the park and he was totally not interested in the slide! He likes his little homemade slide much better.

At yoga class tonight, I had the students go to wall, lie down and rest with their legs up the wall.
So Josh went over by 3 ladies, laid down next to them and lifted his legs up into the air doing the pose with them. As if they didn't already think he was cute enough, he has those women wrapped around his finger! One of the women, Joanne, started teaching him the "so big" game, you ask him, "How big is Joshua?" and he raises his arms above his head and says "sooooo big". After reading Pat the Bunny the other day, I think it comes from there. The funny part is that it took many weeks for Josh to raise his hands above his head, so what would happen is that one of women would ask the question and 6 grown women would simultaneously raise their hands above their heads and say "sooooo big!" and Josh would just look at them and laugh. :)

Hey, where did my hair go?? 

Finally an update!!

Sorry to everyone that has been checking in for updates. In January Josh and I went to visit Michele and Cameron in Indiana, the day after we got back Josh came down with a nasty virus that was going around. Of course, Michael and I both ended up with it too. February was the neverending cold with Josh and I. We have just started feeling better, but that little man keeps me on my toes and when I do get a chance to sit down at the computer, I tend to be in a daze and not quite capable of putting together coherent thoughts to enter into his journal!

Let's see, Josh is now 15 months old! Can you believe it? He has a pretty good size vocabulary and still uses some of his signs, we are teaching him some new ones when we remember to do it!

So here is the list of words he "knows", that means he uses the word independently and in correct context.

Starting from the earliest:

• Dadeeeee - He didn't go through the "da' phase, just straight into the plea for daddy phase!
• shoes - He's been obsessed with socks and shoes from the start
• socks
• quack quack - one of his very early words, he can identify a duck at a hundred yards :)
• hat
• ball
• cheese
• water - WA
• uh-oh!
• dog - along with the appropriate woof-woof sound, although he heard a dog yelping one day and has kind of started an arf-arf thing
• cat - meows too
• cracker
• wow!
• cool!
• juice
• byebye
• hey
• mama - this one took forever! These days it is said in a very loud voice and I'm not sure why!
• baby
• banana
• beep
• milk - he started signing for nursing months ago, he has pretty much dropped that and just asks for milk very clearly now!
• remote - yes, we are embarassed that he knows this one!
• flower
• down
• more
• car - he likes to say "car go"....Auntie Mick taught him that one.
• french fry - "fry"
• pizza
• Jaeden - his playdate buddy
• friend
• clothes
• shirt
• shoot - whoops, this is what mommy is always saying....shoot!
• spoon
• fork
• plate
• drink
• tree
• book
• read
• night night
• Maymay - for Auntie Mick
• slide
• swing
• toes
• feet
• knee
• belly
• peepee
• box .............................and I forgot:
• moon
• block
• coat
• phone - he does a good "halloooo" when he uses it
• outside
• up
• door
• bus
  

Here are the signs that he uses most often:

• milk
• all done
• hat
• bath
• more
• hot
• butterfly
• airplane
• mouse
• friend
• night night

Animal sounds:

• quack quack
• growl - we have been growling with him since he was about 9 months old. He is very good at it! We growl for lions, tigers, bears, and monsters in general. We have played the monster chasing game since he started crawling, he loves it but freaks other kids out when he does it to them!
• woof woof / arf-arf
• meow
• moo
• neigh
• doodle do
• baa
• hisssssssssss
• cawcaw - this is his bird sound due to the large number of crows we have around our area...he use to have a cute cheep cheep but once he heard the crows, that was it.

**Edited to add a bunch more! Once he woke up and started talking the next morning, I realized I had forgotten about 15 words!