He is crawling all over
the place which means he is getting into everything on his level and pulling
things down things that aren’t. Pretty
much daily he finds the terere horn and dumps it out. The resulting mess is damp green yerba
smeared all over his body and the floor.
The bathroom is his favorite place to crawl to and the biggest “no
no”. We put a lock on the outside of our
bathroom door because it won’t stay closed without one but with so many of us
going in and out often the door isn’t latched.
You can see the wheels turning in Josiah’s mind when he spies a partially
opened door. He begins crawling…slow at
first and then faster and faster. Then just
as he reaches the threshold he stops, sits, and waits for someone to notice his
bravery. He smiles at those who are
watching and enters the bathroom hoping to reach the toilet paper prize before
being ushered out.
Josiah
loves to clap and oh, how he loves to clap at himself and his accomplishments
He’s pulling up to a stand
on anything – stable or unstable. This
has resulted in many falls and a few forehead goose eggs.
His first tooth popped
through and is slowly making its way down.
I haven’t noticed any extra fussiness sometimes accompanying teething.
And, the biggest milestone
Josiah has reached this month is……sleeping!
At 10 months Josiah finally decided to sleep a few hours at a time
during the night. I don’t know what
finally clicked in his brain, but I am so thankful he is only waking twice now to
nurse in middle of the night.
