Birthday boy!

Joshua is one year old today. It's hard to believe -- it doesn't seem that long since he was born. That means it's also a year since we've slept through the night, even without Sam's knee issues. No wonder I'm tired all the time.

Some things that Joshua is doing at one year old: holding his own bottles, starting to drink out of a cup, crawling up and down stairs, getting down off our very high king sized bed by going backwards down the bed steps (under adult supervision, of course!), standing up almost unsupported, and starting to make sounds that sometimes sound like the words dada, ella, and (according to Amy) thank you. He's not quite walking yet, but that may be because he's so quick and so mobile by crawling that he doesn't feel the need yet. He is, fortunately, very gentle with the dogs, and except when overtired is a pretty happy, good natured baby who smiles easily.

Meanwhile, Samantha has a second loose tooth, and she has her Kindergarten orientation day next week and starts school a week from Monday. Tempus fugit.