Posted 7:54 AM by Kathy
Shawn and Josh put up a couple strands of Christmas lights last night. Josh saw a house with lights on it and I guess he remembered helping Shawn last year. He was talking about the ladder and everything you need to put up lights. Then he started talking about Santa. We have been telling him for about a month now that he has to ask Santa Claus for a train. He's got it down too. He'll say "I sit on Santa's lap and say, Please can I have a Thomas the Tank Engine choo choo train." It's very sweet and it's all that he wants this year. So, he'll undoubtedly get it.

Posted 7:47 AM by Kathy
Last night I was putting Josh to bed. He was resisting pretty fiercely. He was being cool about it though, asking questions, telling me stories, stuff like that. But the best thing that he did was to say, "Mama, can you say I love you and I'll say I love you too?" So, how could I resist that?

Posted 7:58 AM by Kathy
I got to go see a movie with Christine yesterday! I have been waiting for a long time to see the new Harry Potter. It was pretty good, it followed the book almost as well as I expected. When I got home, Josh was asleep. When he woke up he says, "You come home now?" Yes. "You see big movie?" Yes. "What you go look at?" I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. "Ohhhhhhh, Wow, Hazzy Potter and the Cheecrets? Cool!......I pay with trains."

Posted 8:41 AM by Kathy
Yesterday, we went to the zoo. With the exception of a small melt down, the trains are closed during the week for winter, he did great. We went in the "climate buildings" for lack of a better description. These include the Arctic Tundra, with a polar bear, Southern Lowlands, with deserts and snakes and stuff, and there is a third one that I can't recall right now. We haven't gone into these buildings in 2 years, so it was kind of like seeing something new. The polar bear was really active, actually all the bears were active.
We also got to see some "Scoops". The workers were putting some finishing landscape touches on the penguin habitat, so the bulldozers were moving lots of dirt. We sat on a bench watching that for about 20 minutes. It was a really great day.

Posted 8:19 AM by Kathy
A couple of nights ago, Josh told us that he either was or saw the "globbin". Both Shawn and I had no idea what he was talking about. We kept asking him what he was saying and he kept saying "Globbin". Finally, he says, "The Geen Globbin!" Oh, OK, the Green Goblin from Spiderman. "Yeah, the geen globbin." He hasn't seen Spiderman.

Posted 8:06 AM by Kathy
I just read Christine's post over on twinlog and wanted to share a similar story. One time, Josh wanted me to play with him. "Paysume, Mama" (that's play with me in Josh language) and he had gathered his scoops and his construction crane. I had no idea what to do. He gave me the dump truck and told me to "have it". I just rolled it back and forth in a lame attempt to play trucks. I can do Little People, sometimes lightsabers, and I can do a pretty wicked imitation of Roz on Monsters, Inc. My gun, however, is sad. I tend to "fire" with my index finger, which is also the barrel of the gun. Now Barbies...I can play Barbies. Unfortunately, Josh won't play with Barbies.

Posted 7:47 AM by Kathy
Last night, Shawn was watching the movie "Ali" (which by the way, we are glad we didn't pay to see) and of course Josh was wondering what he was watching. So the rest of the night, Josh wanted to play "Boxes" with Daddy. "Daddy, let's play boxes."
Also, the silly voice was better last night. Yippee!

Posted 8:35 AM by Kathy
I had a pretty fun weekend. Friday night and Saturday morning, I got to scrapbook with Christine. That was so much fun! On the other hand, Josh is driving me nuts! He has developed this voice that he has started to use in everyday speech. It is a silly voice and it's really low. I can't describe it, it just bugs me. I think he picked it up at school. Shawn and I have told him that he can use it with his friends, but not with Mama and Daddy.

Posted 8:17 AM by Kathy
I can't believe I haven't reported on this before. When Josh watches videos, he has to gather the corresponding toys or books. For example, for Thomas the Tank Engine, he has a catalog with pictures. For Bob the Builder, he has all his "Scoops". For Star Wars, he'll get a "lightsaber". Yesterday morning, we were watching Bob the Builder and he was gathering his construction vehicles. It took longer than he expected, and by the time he had them all, the show was over. He freaked.

Posted 7:46 AM by Kathy
Josh woke up last night at 2:00 screaming that there was a spider. "There's a pider, a pider!" So Shawn got up and turned on the light and looked for the spider. Thank God there wasn't one. Neither Shawn nor myself deal well with spiders.
This morning, I asked Josh about the incident, and he does not remember. He said he slept well and didn't see a spider. OK.

Posted 7:45 AM by Kathy
Lately, I'm feeling really close to my son. He is growing up so fast. We had a great day at the zoo yesterday and it was like we knew we were just hanging out. We weren't in any rush to do anything or see anything in particular. We were just feeling the love.

Josh got a haircut yesterday, and I love this woman. Her name is Sally and she works at Curt's Cutters. She knows how to talk to kids. She let him turn on her clippers and look in the mirror. She explained to me how his hair grows so I can comb it a certain way and it'll lay better. I was most impressed. So was Josh, he got a sucker.

Posted 8:38 AM by Kathy
We had a nice dinner out last night. I have been really wanting ribs lately, so I talked Shawn into Tony Roma's. Shawn came home early and we went to pick Josh up. We got to the restaurant and as Josh was getting out of the van he says, "Mama, I love you." Then he went up to Shawn and told him, "I love you too." Very nice. He also ate all his dinner and behaved well. Yippee!

Josh has been trying to con Joshua Turnbull into coming over to his house. Every evening when I pick him up it's "Joshy Turnbull, you come to my house, I have candy for you. It be fun." Poor Mr. Turnbull just wants his mama. Maybe we need to have a playdate soon.

Posted 7:50 AM by Kathy
We had another great weekend. Saturday, Shawn worked early in the day, so that I could go to a candle party at Christine's. Then Christine & I thought we should order pizza and play Star Wars trivial pursuit. So Shawn and Josh came over and we ate. The kids played really great together while the adults played the game. I won't say who won.

Sunday, I woke up with a terrible migraine so we missed church. Shawn and Josh went to a train show together. Shawn said that they had a really good time. Josh only had one or two melt downs. He was pretty much Daddy's boy on Sunday, until I put him to bed. He told me to "Give me kisses." and when I leaned up to kiss him, he says "I love you Mama." What a way to end the day.

Posted 9:46 AM by Kathy
We went trick or treating last night on Ryan and Amy's street. Josh really got into it again this year. The cutest thing was that he kept checking out what he got in his pumpkin. "Mama! I got candys!" or "I got 2 suckers, a purple one and another one purple." We went to a house that had suckers in the bowl, Josh says "Trick or treat I want that one sucker!" Suckers are apparently the way to go.