Joshie Bieber

Since I have no good pictures to post of Joshua, I thought I'd share a funny story from recent days.

I don't remember when this started, but one day we saw Justin Bieber singing "Baby" on some television show or commercial (it must have been a weekend, because David was home), and although I don't know any of the words besides the chorus, I started to sing that, and David joined in, thinking Joshua would laugh and like it since he loves when we sing songs. Boy, were we wrong! He flipped out and started begging us to stop singing it. Every few days, I'd try it again, and he'd pitch a fit and I'd say, "No, sir...we don't act like that." Last night, after laying Leah down for bed, I walked by his door and heard him talking/singing in his crib. I put my ear to the door and this is what I heard:

"Baby, baby, baby, oh like, baby, baby, baby...NO SIR!"

I had to cover my mouth to keep from laughing out loud! He cracks me up sometimes :)

Funny "hats" and magic prunes

Let me start off this post by explaining why there are no pictures of Joshua: he's going through a strange camera phase. He constantly wants me to take his picture, but he refuses to smile. His face goes completely blank and nothing I say or do will get him to smile. This drives me crazy because Joshua has the brightest, sweetest smile and it lights up my heart a million times a day...except when the camera is on him. Oh well...this too shall pass.

Leah likes this little tag blanket my mom got her, and Joshua likes to put it on her head:

Funny Leah-bug :)

On another note, we celebrated a long-awaited accomplishment yesterday--Leah had a poopy diaper! As funny as that sounds, it is true. She'd gone WEEKS without a dirty diaper, and we were starting to get really worried. She'd been wetting diapers like normal, but that was it. I found some baby food prunes in a bag of baby food a friend from church had given us, and I hoped they'd be the solution. This was Leah's first solid food, and I'm not sure how much of it even ended up in her tummy! As soon as I would put a spoonful in her mouth, those little fingers would pop right back in her mouth, and the food would get all over her hand...which she would then wipe all over her face, bib, outfit, and chair. What a mess! Eventually, I had to hold both of her little hands in my left hand and feed her with my right hand to keep the food from getting everywhere...and then she decided it was fun to blow raspberries and get the prunes all over the place that way.

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It seems that she got enough food in her belly because after eating some prune baby food Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday at lunch time, we had a VERY full dirty diaper yesterday afternoon and another one this morning--hooray! Baby Leah's not stopped up anymore :)

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And in the last couple of weeks, one of her bottom middle teeth has broken through the gum, so she beat her brother's first tooth by a few weeks (she'll be 6 months next Friday).

Even though the thought of tasting prunes seems

pretty gross, I could still just eat her up :)

(Look at all the food on that bib!)

My two little valentines

I came across these two pictures this morning as I was checking the camera--David must have taken them while I was doing some cleaning on Saturday morning. Surprise pictures are fun to find...especially when they are of my two little valentines!

Leah loves to stick out her tongue these days!

I love those big brown eyes and long eyelashes :)

Leah's upping the ante recently...while she still
loves to suck on her pointer and middle finger together,
sometimes she'll shove in her ring finger for good
measure! And the other day, I found her with all
four fingers crammed in her mouth--I think if
she could figure out how to fit her thumb in there too,
she'd do it! Silly Leah-bug :)