Happy Monday

Hi all,

Lately I've been commenting that the family doesn't post nearly as much as everyone used to...and then today I realized that I ought to post - it sure has been awhile! Things are going pretty well with us. While we still have apartments we need to fill, it isn't quite as daunting when another 30-day notice jumps through our mail slot. Just a sigh...and on to more paperwork and phone calls, etc. I suppose it is calming down, but people aren't nearly as interested in renting these days - summer was crazy! Anyway - that's pretty boring...
Joshua is doing great! He's doing a lot that you can't quite see in pictures - grasping onto things...looking like he's scratching them, and generally doing a much better job of being able to grab what he wants to. He's enjoying some of his solid foods - rice cereal is pretty good...carrots are ok, green beans are the best, and bananas made his tummy upset.
He has finally become interested in rolling over, and sometimes he will keep on going - over and over...it is the end of an era - an era of leaving him on his back and knowing he'll stay there, and the era of poopy diapers not really being that scary. Now they are quite scary. Ah well. His feet can touch the ground now in his little play table like Summer's, but it may be awhile before he can actually push enough to move around in it. He figured out how to push this little whale, which makes the fish spin around in a circle...and when he figured it out, he did it over and over and over...we got a little film of him doing it - he was very proud.
Grandma and Grandpa Rozen came down to see him (and us, of course, but mostly Joshua!) this weekend and that was a whole lot of fun. He especially enjoyed singing with Grandma and playing with his caterpillar on the floor with Grandpa.
Joshua likes to sing some funny songs with his Mommy also - his all-time favorite (even more than Old McJoshy, amazingly!) is "Bubbles the Baby Spitbug." Some of you have been able to enjoy the amazing song, written by Joshua's Mommy. He also likes, "Poop-inator Poop-inator ate a little alligator" but that is generally reserved for the changing table.
Also, his "Aunt" Ashley got married this weekend! He is a bit upset about this because he loves his Aunt Ashley and she has been staying with us off and on since he was born, so he's not so sure about forgiving his new "Uncle" Adam (he already has a REAL uncle Adam) for taking Ashley away...but it'll be ok.
Things are going well for us across the board - worrying about money and the future and all of that, but it'll all work out, I have no doubt.

Well on that optimistic note, I gotta go play with my baby who is rather perturbed that I'm paying attention to the computer rather than him! He is just like his Daddy!

Love you all, and I hope to see more posts! Sorry that I haven't posted much, either.
Manda