Gentleman start your engine!

Joey is officially a crawler and with that development comes the realization that my life as I've known it will never be the same. Joe has been showing an interest in moving for awhile now but I guess he officially took off on Sunday night while I was at church with the youth group. On Monday, after I got home from work and picked Ben up from school and Joey up from the Chaplins I came home to change and put Joey down on the floor in my room for a couple of minutes. The next thing I knew I could not find him and I walked out of my room to find this in the guest bathroom:

What a little stinker...he had been crawling for less than 24 hours and already discovered the toilet paper trick! A mere 24 hours later while making dinner I suddenly noticed that the baby whom I thought was playing with blocks on the kitchen floor was actually pulling all the ziploc plastic bags out of a kitchen drawar.

AFTER dinner he proceeded to crawl through the family room to the front door where he attempted to escape!

I swear I am not the least observant parent on the planet, that kid is just a stealth warrior when it comes to crawling. In other Joe news, as I suspected last week he did pick up Ben (and half the rest of the town's) germs and has his own nasty lung infection going on. His cough was so nasty, in fact, that we went to the pediatrician on Friday and have had to break out the nebulizer machine we had for Benny when he had bronchiolitis as a baby and have been giving Joe-Joe albuterol breathing treatments 3-4 times a day. They do seem to be working but he is less than impressed with them, as is evident in the pictures below. It is not easy to take a picture of a hysterical baby while administering (or at least attempting) a breathing treatment. I'm such a multitasker!

Joey seems to be on the mend but my little carrier monkeys have officially infested my house and I now am sick too. Poor Dean is not sleeping now either thanks to my constant coughing and throat clearing. When will the madness end!?