Crawling...And Climbing?

Hello everyone! This is the very first post by the 'Mike' in 'The Mike and Lacy Show'. Lacy graciously allowed me to pitch in and provide an update, so here goes!

Since our last post, Josiah has continued to hone and develop his new found crawling skills. The video below was taken a week ago, about two weeks into his little 'experiment'. As you can see, he's made marked improvements in both speed and agility. The only downside is that he now gets into things he shouldn't about twice as often as he used to! (Yes, those are Christmas lights Josiah is trying to get a hold of. Don't tell anyone we still have them up ;)

Thus far, Josiah has approached crawling with the utmost prudence and care. And who can blame him? Bumbling around on your hands and knees probably feels pretty weird the first time you try it. But oddly enough, the same cannot be said for his attempts to go vertical. We don't know if he wants to be closer to where Mom and Dad are or if he just wants a new challenge, but he's definitely ready to go up. Lace had suspected that he was 'trying' to pull himself up over the last couple of days, but neither of us had actually seen him do it. Today he decided to show us (over and over again) what he's been working on:

Needless to say, we dropped his crib bed down to the lowest setting immediately after recording this!

Caution! What you see below may cause laughter.

Crawling

Josiah is 10 months old and on the verge of taking off!  As you can see below he is trying out this thing called crawling.  He's not consistent about crawling yet and prefers the side-winder army sprawl, but if he wants something, he goes after it!

He's been doing really well trying new fruits and veggies, he's not too crazy about chunky stuff and he likes his food warm.  I think avocados are his favorite so far.

At the beginning of Jan. we discovered that he was allergic to milk after we gave him a spoonful of yogurt.  Then we had him tested for other allergies and he is pretty much allergic to everything.  He highest levels were for milk and wheat, but gluten, soy, egg white and nuts were positive also.  He's had some eczema and minor skin rashes off and on, but we thought that was mostly due to the dry winter weather.  It turns out it was all allergies from the food I was eating.  So guess who gets to go on a everything free diet for a few months!  I was and still am planning on breast feeding him until he turns one.  It's frustrating though that one of the reasons to breast feed was to decrease his chances of having food allergies!  Either way I don't regret having chosen to nurse him.

This past Fri was our 4th wedding anniversary.  Since I'm on a limited diet, we went to Fogo De Chao.  It's a Brazilian steakhouse where they bring around a variety of meats on big skewers and shave off pieces for you.   It was unbelievably delicious and all you can eat.  They also offer a salad bar for you to get your veggies in but we only went once and didn't fill our plate.  It's expensive but well worth the money.  They are located in a lot of big cities, so look one up next time you have something to celebrate!

Well that's a little bit of what's been going on with us.