Joey - 3 Months

All about Joey this last month :)

- He went camping for the first time :) We stayed in a tent, and it was pretty chilly, so we were worried about keeping him warm.  Thank goodness for the internet though!  We found an awesome idea to keep him warm during the night.  We wrapped him up really well in blankets, laid him in his car seat, and draped a fleece blanket over the handle to create his own little "tent."  I'm pretty sure Neal and I were more cold than he was!  (Funny note: I forgot his stocking hat, and so we had to use my mom's hat and a hair tie to create a hat for him.  We called him our unicorn).

- He got salmonella.  Yup, that's right.  Salmonella.  He was having really green, stinky, mucousy stools.  That's usually a sign of a dairy allergy, but I was already not eating dairy, so I took him into the doctor.  They took a stool sample, and a couple days later we got a call from our pediatrician saying he had salmonella.  Talk about a freaked out mom.  The pediatrician asked if we had any reptiles in the home because that's where the majority of salmonella cases come from.  Long story short, we ended up giving Ayowin to the reptile store in our town.  It was heartbreaking for me to get rid of her, but we decided it was not worth risking Joey getting bacterial meningitis or anything like that.

- He started sucking on his thumb.  It's pretty cute :)

- He started grabbing onto toys that we put on his chest, and swatting at toys that are hanging above him.

- He went swimming for the first time.  I don't think he necessarily enjoyed it, but he didn't freak out either!

- He started really laughing.  He laughs a lot for dad.  I've only been able to get him to chuckle a couple of times for me.

- He went on his second camping trip.  This time we stayed in a cabin, so we weren't worried about him being cold.  That's where we were when he really laughed for the first time.

- He celebrated his first Independence Day.  (Read about that here!)

Love this sweet boy!