Joshua's Baptism

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to Joshua's baptism and open house this weekend.  It's comforting to know he has so many family and friends to support him.  Actually, many more than were able to make it yesterday.

 

If you didn't get an invite, I'm terribly sorry.  It may still be in the mail (we sent them out late) or we may have gotten the address mixed up (corrupt file with all the correct addresses and no recent backup).  The last couple weeks have been very busy.

 

The next few weekends will still be busy with a niece graduating high school, and a nephew and a niece graduating 8th grade.

 

As for the baptism itself... Paula's friend and her husband were in from New York.  He is a pastor and we asked him to perform the baptism.  He was doing a great job, but as he leaned over to put the water on Joshua's head, he discovered the font was empty!  No water -- no baptism.  He quietly mentioned it to the church elder that was assisting, and the elder went and filled a vase and then filled the baptismal font.  That was pretty funny, we were all standing there waiting, with the whole congregation watching us.

 

 

Make it a good week.

-- C.

 

Earthquake!

I'm sure it's all over the Internet by now, but I just wanted to put my 2 cents in.  I heard the house shake early this morning as I was trying to wake up.  Paula was already awake and holding Josh.  I asked if she had done something, but she said no.  I thought it might have been an earthquake, and sure enough, 20 minutes later it was annouonced on the news.

 

Pretty cool.  Josh experienced his first earthquake.

 

 

-- C.

 

Happy Birthday, Marcus!

Happy Birthday, Marcus!

 

I hope you had a good weekend.

 

 

-- C.

 

Babies: dinner time + nap time = ???

Feeding Joshua is fun.  He makes all sorts of interesting sounds and gets funny looks on his face.  If it is near his nap time, the closer he gets to the end of the bottle, the more his eyes close.  Sometimes they don't close all the way though.  Paula calls that his "food-induced stupor."  He just gets this blank look on his face, his eyes glaze over as he stares off into nothingness.

 

And as he falls asleep, you can see his little body slowly relax.  His arms slowly drift down to his sides.  His legs droop down.  And when you take the bottle away, his mouth stays open as if he didn't notice it was gone.  His lips don't move, he just has a perfect little "O" shape.

 

That's cute and all, but when the eye-thing and the mouth-thing happen at the same time?  It ain't pretty.  In fact it's kinda creepy.  He looks like some kind of baby zombie.  I mean, with his eyes half-closed, a blank look on his face, and his mouth open with his jaw slack... It looked like he was contemplating what my brain would taste like. If he had made one of those little baby moans or sighs, I would have really freaked out.

 

 

-- C.

 

Poor Josh!

He had his two-month doctor appointment yesterday and needed four shots.  That's four *individual* shots -- not combined all into one.  The nurse was very quick about it though; as soon as she got one shot in she switched to the next and got it in quickly.  Joshua didn't react for the first two, but by the third he had caught on to what was happening.  And boy, he was NOT happy.

 

He cried pretty hard for a while, but calmed down after a few minutes.  He still looked scared and sore the whole drive home.  Last night he was fussy more than usually.  The first time we changed his diaper he was angry!  I don't know if he thought he'd get more shots or what.  I've never heard the poor guy cry so hard.  The look in his eyes looked like pure terror.

 

We managed to calm him down and gave him some more Tylenol.  He slept well and is in better spirits this morning.

 

 

-- C.

 

Cookie Monster

A good read:

Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Montser?

 

 

--  C.

 

Big update!

April Fool!

 

There is no post today.

 

 

-- C.

Oh, wait... ah nevermind.