HAPPY 2007!

Hello everyone! We hope that everyone had as wonderful a holiday season as we did. 2006 was a blessed year for us and we are looking forward to 2007 as Joshua keeps growing, learning, and keeping us on our toes. Our Thanksgiving and Christmas were spent in Sturgis with my parents and we had such a fun time with Joshua. He just takes everything in and is so good traveling. Santa was wonderful to all of us. We got: an I-pod, Oakley sunglasses, perfume, clothes, toys, books, DVD's, CD's, money, gift cards, tasty treats, oh yea...and did I mention toys!?!?! At least we didn't have to rent a U-haul :) We rang in the New Year at a neighbor's home and Joshua slept through all of the chaos...whew!
Our little boy is growing and learning so much. He weighs about 23lbs and is so solid. He just turned 8 months on December 29th and is growing out of some of his 12 month clothes! The prospects of him playing football for Ohio State is looking better every day. His 2nd tooth finally broke through on the bottom on December 11th (2 months after his 1st bottom tooth came in) and then the day after Christmas I noticed that a 3rd tooth on the bottom is in!
He is so close to crawling that Wednesday we have to make the trip to buy a baby gate for the stairs. He can roll all over the place and crawl backwards and is into everything he shouldn't be into (especially the remote, the phone, CD's, kleenex, etc) He's eating a few solids (bananas, mashed potatoes, and he just tried a few bits of macaroni and cheese tonight).
He had his 1st overnight stay with my parents on December 9th while we went to a Christmas party. He did great and TJ and I took advantage and slept in until 10:00! It was so nice!
Well, that's the update for now. I'll let you know when the crawling begins. Until then, we all wish you a very happy and healthy 2007!