Grain of Rice

So we haven’t written anything here since August 7th which is terrible but Joakim has been walking now since the end of August and that has drastically affected our downtime. And now after 2 months of practice, he’s pretty good at it. We’ve got about 6 seconds before he’s pulling something out of the trash, grabbing dirt out of the plants, biting the cats, pulling books off the shelf, splashing in the toilet or dangerously close to the cat litter. He has figured out how to open everything with a door, cover, latch or handle in the house and whoever designed the “childproof” electric outlet covers should have done a little more R&D as Joakim loves to pull them out AND put them back in. He also loves to climb and as seen on new the videos we posted, this is quite scary.
He understands so much. Close the door, throw me the ball, let’s take a walk, find the kitty; all things to which he responds. For some reason though, get down from there, don’t eat the soap, don’t eat Mommy’s shoe, be nice to the kitty, don’t spit out your food, etc… these things he doesn’t choose to understand.
I could mention again how beautiful he his and how sweet he his with kisses and the like, but I’ll spare you this this time. Overall, he is doing great and we are very proud. He will be 1 year old in 2 1/2 weeks! We can’t believe it! We’ll try to post again soon. Much love from Puerto Rico.
PS - I forgot to mention that he’s sleeping better