My grandmother sent him a really cute pumpkin outfit. She seriously went to every WalMart in the Albany, NY area in order to find one in his size. We took several walks in the chilly fall weather in the last week and dressed him in his pumpkin suit to stay warm.
At this time last year, I was just entering the second trimester of my pregnancy and I remember seeing pictures of one of my best friend Erin's little boy (also named Joseph) who was 5 months of the time. His crazy parents had hollowed out a pumpkin, cut holes for his legs in it and stuck him inside. I loved it and decided in a year we would be doing the same thing with our little one. So here is our Joseph in his pumpkin. He tolerated it for a few minutes but mostly enjoyed attempting to eat the pumpkin.
On Tuesdays, Joseph & I go to a Music Together class for infants. There are about 10 babies ages 4 months to 10 months and we dance around and play instruments for 45 minutes. Mostly the moms sing and play instruments while the babies put the instruments in their mouth. It's a nice break from our regular routine and it wears Joseph out. He promptly falls asleep on the drive home (we usually don't make it out of the parking lot before he's asleep) and takes at least a 2 hour nap afterwards. This week the babies were invited to dress up so we put on his monkey outfit and headed to Music Together...
Last night was the big conclusion to the autumn events...Halloween. We had big plans to go and "trick or treat" at a bunch of friends houses, but it didn't quite work out. We ended up spending 2 hours in line waiting to vote (more on that to come in a future post) and Joseph's nap schedule got totally messed up. He ended up being cranky in the evening. We made it to one friend's house before we called it quits and just walked him up and down our street, visiting some neighbors.
We did make it to one friend's house, a former co-worker of Rich's who has three children. This couple seriously hit the jackpot in the cute kid lottery.
For left to right...Chris (the Dad) with Charlotte Reid (a doggy), Neely (a peacock), Wilson (a Jedi knight) and Joseph & I. Joseph took an immediate interest in Wilson's light sabre. Neely is the most outgoing child you will ever meet...she will talk your ear off. We had seen them when I was 7 or 8 months pregnant and she had spent a good long while patting my tummy and "petting the baby". When Rich reminded her of that incident, something clicked and she started laughing and jumping up and down pointing to Joseph saying "that was him in the belly". Too cute!!!
I would like to note that while we were visiting Joseph decided to have not one, but two, blowouts in his diaper. It is not easy to change a baby's completely full diaper in a car when that baby has a monkey costume on. This did not help his level of fussiness and we headed home.
We visited with neighbors including Miss. Kay, who refers to Joseph as "her boyfriend".
We also visited Caroline, Joseph's future girlfriend (he likes older women - she's two!), who was dressed as Raggedy Anne.
Our friends Anne & Burr, who have no children, also came over later in the evening with wine! They spent a little time playing with Joseph but we put him to bed and enjoyed spending time with our friends. They kept talking about the new bars and restaurants that had opened downtown and Rich and I felt totally lame! We love our new life as parents and early bedtimes and wouldn't trade it for anything, but sometimes we are reminded of our old life before Joseph and it seems so foreign to us.
Overall, Joseph's first fall was a complete success! Now we move on to Thanksgiving and Christmas...
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