This is Joe at his best

Joe LOVES to be outside these days, but is not quit walking yet.  He has taken about 4-5 steps and does it when he wants to but just not all the time.  He loves to push stuff around and then crawl and eat whatever he comes across. 

His other favorite thing is climbing on everything.  He has no fear so he will just climb on whatever is near by.


This is what he did the other night.  He thought is was so cool to be on this chair.



Wow Mom look at what I can do. No Hands!

Brotherly Love?

I think this is called brotherly love, what do you think?

Oops

This is what happens when I am not paying attention to what I am doing.  I didn't realize it until about 15 minutes after I put his shirt on.  Sorry Joe.

Crazy Joe!

Joe and I are down in NC for a few days for his 1 year appointment.  I left PJ back in MI with his grandparents.  It was so weird coming back here with JUST Joe.  It was really sad actually, it felt very empty.  I have never really been home alone since we have been married, almost 7 years ago.  So to be alone and 700 something miles away from family was really weird.  Pete is still in North Dakota so he is even further away.  Anyway, so we made the trip in 12 1/2 hours of driving plus we stopped over night.  Not bad for just Joe and I.  Joe is really lovin all the attention since no one here to take it away from him.  He was just full of it tonight and was laughing at anything I did.  It was so fun to spend some quality one on one time with him.  He is such a happy kid.  Here are a few pictures from tonight.   

                                                                     Bottoms Up!

My little helper

I was getting ready to make a short trip down to NC with just Joe the other day (he has his 1 year appointment) so I was vacuuming out the van.  At first PJ thought it was loud, as he does alot of things, but he then wanted to help.  I did all the nooks and crannys and he did the rest for me.  I just sat in the chair in the sunshine and watched.  If you know him he is a very picky/anal kid, gets that from his dad, so he was back there for a good half hour making sure he got everything cleaned up.  It was so funny to watch.