All Things Supercinski

You guessed it, another month has passed and our boy is growing by leaps and bounds. Josiah is getting bigger and more active. He has officially outgrown the 3-6 month size onesie and his cankles overflow the 0-9 month sock. He is always exploring and has such a sense of wonder. It’s so sweet to watch him take in a new place–like the airport, someone’s house or a store. He’s becoming more and more social and smiles and laughs when he has attention (or to get it if we are distracted). He is doing well with solid foods–he loves fruits and sweet potatoes. His favorite is the sweet potato-peach combo. Not a big fan of cereal or anything green.

No crawling yet, but he started getting up high on his hands and rocking a bit–no tummy on the ground. No teeth yet, but those can wait. His favorite part of day is bathtime and he would kick and scoot across the tub all night if we let him, even after the water has gotten cold. Josiah has developed a few new tricks this month–he’s become an excellent tongue clicker (it is so cute because it is so deliberate) and a great spit bubbler. He loves standing up while we hold his hands or arms, and his favorite “toys” are cups, water bottles and Nalgenes. Below is a picture of him with a cup from Taco Bell. As you can see, he really liked it.

He is seriously such a joy to be around and is so joyful. He brightens my day everytime I go and get him after he’s gotten up from a nap. Here’s a glimpse at his happiness upon waking and seeing me or Thomas.

We’re back! We had quite the vacation–ten days in Colorado. We drove over 900 miles while there, saw all sorts of wonders, had good friend time, good family time and recreation to boot. You can see all of our pictures here. I even wrote captions.

We went to Boulder for the first four days where Thomas did some rock climbing with Elijah. The McConnell’s were wonderful hosts and made traveling with a seven-month-old much easier. After dropping off Elijah at the airport on Tuesday, we headed out to Allenspark, a tiny little speck of a town about 15 miles from Estes Park, on the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. We rented a sweet cabin in the woods for a three nights and spent our days hiking around the Park and enjoying the fine dining Estes Park has to offer (if you are ever there, check out The Egg and I–it was so good, or maybe we were just so hungry). From there, we drove out to Vail to visit Ross and Vanessa, almost a full year after we were there for their wedding. Then we were back to Boulder for a night and we flew out of Denver the next morning. It was a lot of traveling, but we had a great time and got to see some wonderful sights and spend time with wonderful people. Here is a rather ghetto map of our travels, our route is the messy fushia line in case you couldn’t tell:

Just when we thought life couldn’t get any better, my mom goes and gets Thomas his birthday present early. Now, we experience the luxury of all luxuries–music in the shower. Some of you may scoff and say that you’ve owned shower radios in the past, but not like this one. This one plays CDs even! And has a fog-free mirror, too. Showering to music is an instant party. You should try it out.

Thanks Mom for two birthday presents that we can both enjoy! The food dehydrator is awesome. I dried a ton of basil from the herb garden. I love preserving food.

When Josiah wakes up from his naps (or sometimes when he is fighting taking them), we often hear the sound of him running his pacifiers along the bars of his crib. We laugh because it’s like he’s a little prisoner, banging something against the bars of his cell. The other day, I heard him banging against the bars, signaling to me that he was awake. I hurried in with the camera because I have wanted to catch the bar banging on film, er, digitalized. I went in and this is what I found…