My Movie Stars

I had mentioned in a previous post that I was entering Joey in a contest. It's the Earth's Best Most Memorable Feeding contest and the winner gets a month's supply of diapers/wipes/food. Earth's Best is heading into their 25th year as the first maker of "pure" baby food on the market. Well, our video was approved and made it into their list (of about 150 videos). They will choose 25 winners as the "25 faces of Generation Pure" who will be featured on their website starting in January. Winners will be notified mid-December. We'll see what happens! Here's our entry:

New Discoveries and Funny Hats

Joe is now standing all the time on anything he can get some leverage on. He's pretty fearless and will reach up for anything on his tippy-toes with no hands holding on. Aunt M is coming to see us for New Years and I've been saying that maybe he'll take his first steps while she's here!


Joe and I went to visit a friend and see her little girl Sofia on her 3 month birthday. Joey tried to put his hand in her mouth and bonked her once in the side of the face, but overall he seemed to be gentle with her and they enjoyed looking at each other. It's love.


After much speculation on my part, I was finally able to catch Joseph "in the act" of turning his crib mobile on and off. Sometimes I thought I heard him doing it, but as soon as I would come into the room, he would just plop and roll around and pretend like "nothing to see here folks!" But this video makes it official:



After multiple requests and much harassment from friends and family, I finally got a couple of good pictures that show off Joey's teeth. Feel free to click on them to get a 'close-up' look.



Finally, I leave you with these cute pictures of Joe and his daddy in some hats that I got for free recently. They came from our favorite local Mexican place. Ole!

Not a Baby Anymore

I don't know exactly when it happened, but somehow Joe went from being a tiny little baby to a little boy. He can feed himself his own bottle, he can feed himself Cheerios and he can pull himself up to standing. Here he is using the coffee table to stand up:



We just finished baby proofing things based on a fast-crawling floor-level Joey and we are now trying to baby proof a whole new set of things (tops of coffee tables, bookshelves, etc). We can barely keep up! I think the closest we've come to danger is that Joe may have eaten about half of a kleenex tissue.

Joe's got two teeth on the bottom now and it looks like one is trying to come in on the top too. He's done pretty well dealing with teething pain by chewing on everything and kind of humming/moaning while doing it. While doing this, he and his daddy came up with a new game -- **NOTE: There's some problem with the video/audio matching up, but you can still get the idea:



I saved the best for last -- I introduced Joe to blocks a few days ago and for some reason, he thought it was HILARIOUS. So, enjoy the sound of Joey-laughter!

Baby Batman

We learned on November 17th of last year that I was having a boy, but before that we had been referring to the little one as "Baby Batman" or "Little Batman". Joe Daddy told me that was a good name "be he a man or a woman". It should come as no surprise that for Joe's first Halloween, he went as Batman.






We went to about a dozen houses and everyone was thrilled to get to see a little baby all dressed up. I was surprised that Joe was such a good sport about everything -- I thought maybe he might not like wearing the mask or something, but he had a great time mask, cape and all. Although Joe is too young for candy, he did get to play with some playdoh that he was given and Joe Daddy was happy to take care of the candy-eating for him this year. I had a great time escorting my superheroes through Gotham and I look forward to all the Halloweens to come!