The garden continues to grow dandelions at an impressive rate. It’s been a cold, rainy June, so I’m not sure how great that is for my other plants. We shall see, we shall see.
June 4th Joseph started putting shapes into the shape sorters. Since that day he hasn’t been as successful, but it still keeps him occupied. With him starting to put things INTO other things, that means soon we’ll be able to teach him to help clean up with us!
We went to a play group the same day and had a great time even though rain kept us indoors. Joseph loves being around other kids and their strength and roughness doesn’t seem to bother him. Since we were out for a short time I had him in cloth diapers, but had no intention of doing EC, but about halfway through he come to me fussing and he didn’t want food or to nurse so I thought maybe he needed to pee. He was still dry after several hours from when we left home so I decided to give peeing in a public toilet a try. He’d never been interested before, but this time he went like a pro! He stayed dry until we got home that day, too. Nothing like that has happened again and we’ve had plenty of down EC days, but the successes are more fun to report.
June 5th we had a reunion meeting for PEKiP folks. Unfortunately, the two older babies couldn’t make it, but it was great fun to see the other babies and mothers and to share experiences again. Everyone was surprised Joseph wasn’t walking yet. I’m not sure if the babies remembered each other, but they did enjoy each other.
June 7th Joseph took his first steps! He grabbed my skirt to get up off of the potty but once he was standing the skirt was not supporting him anymore, but he didn’t know that and took a step or two toward me. I praised him but he didn’t know what I was so excited about! That same evening Stephan was holding his hands as Joseph walked and Stephan let go and Joseph stood for a second then took a step before Stephan held his hands again. So far, no repeat performances or interest. He is interested in walking if we hold his hands, though. Now after he goes to the potty we walk together to the bathroom where he lifts the toilet lid (he’s only supposed to do that when we have something to dump – maybe a complicated rule for a 1-year-old) and helps flush. He finds that great fun.
He now has eight teeth: four on top and four on the bottom.
June 8th both Joseph and I woke up a bit sick. That evening I lost all my food but Joseph got away with only the snuffles. He’s been sleeping a lot and we both are on the mend.
June 11th I finally sent in our taxes. It always seems to take longer than expected – I started months ago! They’re sent under the wire (over seas folks have until June 15th), but they’re done! Now we can enjoy our first guests at our place in Emmen. They should arrive any minute now, so I’m signing out and it will probably be another two weeks before I touch base again. Thanks for your faithful reading anyway!
Just think of all that good brain development he's getting with the extended crawling. I'm betting he'll be walking by his first birthday.
Bravo! for the public toilet success! That's not always an easy adjustment to make.
Hi from us to your guests. :)
