~Josiah's 1st attempt @ quad riding with Daddy ~

Below is a priceless photo of Steve and our son, Josiah, riding together for the 1st time on the 450 Kodiak Quad! Josiah was helping Daddy move some of the irrigation sprinklers & hoses....AND going V-E-R-Y slowly. They both had a blast, to say the least!!!!

Posts for Josiah.....

I just wanted to let everyone know that my plan is to keep most of the blog posts that are mainly pertaining to Josiah at the following blog of: ( http://www.josiah-roberts.blogspot.com/ ) until he's around a year old. About that time, my hope is to start posting about him on our family blog site of: ( www.steveandtraceyroberts.blogspot.com ) , as I do the rest of our family members. That said, if you are interested in some updates and photos about our little man until that time arrives, please visit the postings at this site!

~Tracey

Milestones.....

Mr Josiah just keeps hitting his milestones! It's so neat to see him close to being "on schedule" with his development. There are a few areas that he's still a bit behind, but he's quickly catching up....quickly enough that we can't really classify it as "behind" anymore since he's within the normal range for the skills he has yet to develop! My 4# 11oz boy has sure made some progress...he's now 16# 10.5 oz at 8.5mos old. Where, oh where, did the time go?!?!?

FIRST TOOTH!!!! Our little man just got his first tooth on June 29th! He didn't seem to have much problems with getting this tooth in. I always check each day and he just happened to have a tooth that day!

ALMOST CRAWLING!!! He's as close to crawling without actually crawling that a baby can get, I think! He gets up on all fours, rocks back and forth, then lunges forward to do a chest plant into the carpet...then back up for another lunge! He also rolls and does the army/combat crawl in between. It's now time to start baby-proofing this house! With three big sisters, and all that "big girl" stuff around, he's got plenty to get into!