Clevenger-Young Family: November 2009

So on October 28th, 2009, My baby boy Josiah decided to take his first steps. He recently began standing for a few seconds at a time which has gradually become longer. I will stand him up then let go and he'll just stand there like it's no big deal. He just looks at us all weird when we're makin a big fuss because he is standing lol. The other night I decided to keep practicing with him by letting him stand up and I was trying to coax him to me.. ya know.. "come here JoJo, walk to Mama" type stuff. The first few times he just fell on his butt or would fall forward knowing I would catch him. After a few tries, he took 5 STEPS!!!!!! He actually WALKED to me!!!!! Aaron was in the kitchen not paying attention and I started screaming lol.. all aaron could hear was "AHH AHH AHH" He looks through the opening at the bar and is like "whats wrong!!!" All I could say was "He walked, He walked.. he really walked" I was super excited. My mom watches him everyday while we're at work and I usually just get to hear "oh JoJo did this today" and it bums me out because I feel like I'm missing out on all the "firsts". Sometimes I wish I could afford to just work part time so that I could witness all this stuff myself but times are tough and I have to be a full time workin mama, so I'm super greatful that I actually got to see his first real steps!!! My little man is growin up so fast. Everything is comin early for him. His teeth came early and now here he is, 10 months old and starting to walk. I figure he'll be fully walking well before his 1st birthday.

Also, another big thing is, he got to do his first Halloween. We. Dressed him up as a little puppy =) I gotta say he was the cutest puppy around. (I could just be a little biased though) We started the holiday off by meeting up with Tammy, Traci, Aunt Dalyce and all Tammy and Traci's kids. We went down the main strip in Arlington to all the businesses and some people were parked doing "trunk-r-treating" with their cars all decorated and handing candy out from the trunk. It was a lot of fun cept Josiah fell asleep halfway through lol. After we left there we stopped by Josiah's Auntie Dana's house so he could show off his costume and get candy from her too. Then it was off to Grandma's house. Of course he and his cousin Brandee cleaned out the candy there lol. From there we went with cousin Tammy and her husband and kids to a church in Arlington that was having a bunch of activities for little ones so they don't have to go door to door to get candy. It was a lot of fun .... and FREE... who can pass that up? They had everything from Pony rides to big huge inflatable things for kids to play on. Of course Josiah is too little for the inflatables but he went on his very first pony ride. All in all it was a fun night and we didn't have to take him to strange houses.

An update on other things...

We are almost completely settled in our new place. We just have a couple things to get.. basic stuff like plungers and stuff like that. and we are almost completely unpacked. The living/dining area was unpacked and lookin like a home in the first couple days but I really kinda slacked off when it came to the upstairs that nobody sees but us. Today I buckled down and got Josiah's room unpacked and got his walls decorated. I'm hoping to get the upstairs bathroom and our room done during the week this week. Most likely it will be the weekend though cause my evenings after work are spent hangin out with my little man (and his daddy too) because I miss him so much during the day.

I guess that's it for now.... more to come later. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our lil man's first Halloween.

JoJo playin in the kids room at the church