Posted 10:32 AM by Kathy
I don't think Josh understands the concept of choices. I ask him what he wants, i.e. "Corn Dog or Cheeseburger" and he usually chooses both. He'll finally pick one and when it comes out, he'll say, "My cheeseburger!" and it's a corn dog. Whatever.

Posted 3:10 PM by Kathy
The Scoops were out in full force this morning. Since I didn't have to be anywhere at a certain time today, I let Josh watch until they took a break. He really enjoyed it. He had his toy Scoop out and was following along with the full size scoop. It was pretty cute. I tried to get a couple of pictures, I hope they turn out good.

Posted 11:25 AM by Kathy
Saturday night, Josh asked Shawn for some milk. Shawn stood there a moment until Josh said please. Later, it was Shawn's turn to lay down with Josh at bed time. Josh told Shawn to rub his back. Shawn said "Ask nicely", Josh says, "I did please for the milk"

Posted 9:07 AM by Kathy
Speaking of Little People, Josh carried them to bed in his shoe last night. You can get 3 Little People, the bus driver, Michael, and Sonya Lee, in a size 10 1/2 sandal.

Posted 9:05 AM by Kathy
On Wednesday, I took Josh to the playground. He ended up pooping in his underwear. He gets in big trouble for that since he'll look right at you and tell you he is not pooping. Anyway, we were talking about spanking yesterday and he said, "No spank me" I told him that sometimes Mama and Daddy spank when you disobey, but we love you very much. He seemed to get it. Later, he was playing with his Little People, and he took them to the bathroom and spanked them. I asked him why they were getting a spanking. "Dey poo poo in de unnerwear." Then he hugged them and told them "Yuv you too".

Posted 8:23 AM by Kathy
We had "noonules" (I don't know how to spell noodles the way he says it) last night. He only ate one before he was done. After he and Shawn went to look at the Scoops that are parked all over our neighborhood, Josh decided he wanted dinner. He wanted them cold. After he ate a few, he offered me one, Cold! I told him no thank you, I ate my noodles at dinner time. He took one on his fork and "swam" it over to me, like I do when I want him to eat one more bite. Cold noodles and spaghetti sauce? Never again.

Posted 8:30 AM by Kathy
Josh: "I seep in you bed tanight"
Mama: "No"
Josh: "When sun wake up?"
Mama: "Yes, when the sun wakes up, you can come cuddle with me."
Josh: "I seep in you bed?"
Mama: "No"
Josh: "Lay down wif me a minute?"
Mama: "OK"
Josh: "Rub my back."

Posted 1:25 PM by Kathy
Josh comes up to me on Sunday and points an extended tape measure at me, "Mama, show me your worst". I think he got it off of Larry-Boy and the Angry Eye Brows.

Posted 1:21 PM by Kathy
We got our new van! Josh is already spoiled. He wants to watch something every time we get in it. I'll admit, it is pretty cool. When we got to church on Sunday, Josh went in his class and Wil says, "Josh, I so happy to see you!" Josh: "We got new van".

Posted 12:35 PM by Kathy
Yesterday was an awesome day! We went to Big Splash water park with Suzanne, Aidan, and her friends Myumi and Nina. We played in the kid's area a lot. They have a few cool slides for kids, like a dinosaur and frog. There is also 3 floating toys that they love to climb on and push around. After our friends left, we went in the wave pool. I can't believe he was so brave! He was sitting on the tube, holding the handles and I was leaning on the other side holding the buckle to his life jacket so he wouldn't fall off. We played through 3 wave cycles and on the last one, Josh started falling asleep! His head got real heavy and I noticed him leaning on me a lot. I'd ask him if he was falling asleep and he'd look up with an impish grin and say, "Noooooo, I not seeping" But then he'd giggle like he was teasing me. We had such a great day!

Posted 7:26 AM by Kathy
Rain! Rain! Rain! We were supposed to go to the playground last night to play, yep you guessed it, Scoop! Josh at least sort of understood and found a way to play inside. Our van is in! Yippee! We're going to pick it up on Friday morning. They have to tint the windows and put the trailer hitch on it. We are so excited.

Posted 7:23 AM by Kathy
Josh used to say "Yeah" quite a bit. I've told him to say Yes since sometimes his "Yeah" sounds like "Uhhhhh" so we can't tell if he has to potty, or he's hungry or whatever. I'm thinking that they have worked with him at school also, because now he says "Yesth"

He also wants to "show you somsing" all the time. It's never really anything exciting, but it's KIND OF cute. This morning, at 7:25 Scoop was outside. I had 10 more minutes to sleep. Josh jumped up, "Mama, Scoop! Outside!" He ran out there to look. A few seconds later, I hear, "Mama, you missing it!" I wanted to miss it, I only had 10 minutes left to sleep.

Posted 8:36 AM by Kathy
Josh has been singing "Little Bunny Foo Foo" a lot lately. I'm having a hard time remembering the words and Josh sings it differently than we used to as kids. It's still very cute to watch him "Bop em on the head".

Posted 8:14 AM by Kathy
There is some water line construction going on around our house. Josh loves watching the "Scoop" work. This morning, Scoop wasn't out there. Josh cupped his hands to his mouth and yells "SCOOOOOOP! Where are you?"

Yesterday, we all had eye doctor appointments. This was Josh's first eye exam. He didn't answer many of the questions, but he looked up and down and side to side very well. The doctor said that he was 1 1/4 points (or something) farsighted, which is what they want to see at this age. Shawn had some problems with lazy eye and stretched retinas, so we were worried about our kids. It looks like he'll take after me and not need glasses until after age ten. Yippee!

Posted 7:52 AM by Kathy
Josh has lately been using the phrase, "Oh my gosh!!" I know that we say it some, we definitely don't say God in place of gosh, but I don't think we say it in the dramatic way that he does. He also wants to call people a lot, especially G-Pa, but when someone calls and wants to talk to him, he won't. I don't get it.

Posted 8:14 AM by Kathy
A Wild Weekend! Friday night, we went out to eat with G-Pa and Nana to a chicken/catfish place. Josh ate an entire piece of catfish. I'm not very happy about that, I can't stand the stuff. If he'd eat it broiled, I'd make it at home. I refuse to fry the stuff in my house. Later, Eric, Cindy, Emily, Ethan and Evan came over to give Josh his birthday present. It was a cool drum set from FAO, it had a marching drum, xylophone, tambourine, maracas, and a recorder (flute type thing). He kept saying, "I like it birthday present!"

Saturday, I cleaned out the kitchen cabinets and put contact paper down on most of the shelves. I was exhausted. Shawn took Josh to look at the hot air balloons and then they were going to go to the bookstore. Josh decided that he wanted to go see Frank. They didn't get home until midnight.

Sunday, Josh was not nice! He threw fit after fit after fit until we had enough! We made him lay down until he went to sleep. When he woke up, he was much nicer. We went to Sonic for dinner and Josh told us he wanted "Cheesburger, fench fies, tatie tots, cherry spite and that's it!" Later, he was counting and he says "21, 22, 23, 27, 20 dollars" Pretty cute. Then in his bath he wanted me to come in and get him some paints. So I did. Then he said "Mama, let's pray. Thank you God for these paints" I don't know why he's praying about paints, but it was sweet.

Posted 10:48 AM by Kathy
Yesterday was Josh's 3 year check up and yes, he needed a shot. He also had to have his hemoglobin rechecked. So, they poked his finger AND his leg. For the rest of the day he was telling me "I got poke, I cwy" over and over. He would have this little pout on his face when he told me. Very pitiful.