I love you dadda!

I've been trying to teach Joshua to say this for almost 2 years now, and he finally said it! :) We were driving to Lookout Farm this morning and he said to both Annette and me.

Lookout Farm

Today, we concluded our apple picking season at Lookout Farm. Joshua loves to pick and eat apples--we will definitely be back next year!

Joshua was going about his regular routine of feeding sheep in the petting farm at Lookout, when all of a sudden, a very aggressive goat rammed into one of the sheep next to Joshua, who also got knocked down the the ground. It was a little comical, but Joshua wasn't too happy. I think he was more shocked than anything. Well afterwards, all the parents were holding their kids and not letting them walk around by themselves in the sheep pen after seeing what happened to Joshua!

Hair Up!

When Joshua saw himself in the mirror this morning, he noted, "Hair up!" He then said "Down" and tried unsuccessful to pat his mohawk down. Annette asked him if he wanted to wet his hair down, and he did. We actually like his funky hair. It's funny to see him be so conscious of his looks--from refusing sometimes to wear those red pants, and picking out a "maching shirt", or wanting to wear his yellow or green bib.

Sometimes when we are changing him and he's still topless, Joshua will caress his skin and say, "Nice!"

Momma sick!

Annette was reading to Joshua while coughing and Joshua said to her, "Momma sick!"

We read through Joshua's dim sum book tonite, and I taught him to say, "Char Siu Bao" "Har Gow" "Siu Mai" and "Dan Tat" which we will hopefully eat sometime this week! :)

"Hold you!" Joshua says whenever he wants us to hold him, because we ask him, "Do you want me to hold you?"

New York!

We lost Joshua's backhoe in New York, and whenever we ask him where is something that we are missing, he says, "New York!"

Budding Botanist

Joshua goes on walks around the neighborhood and selects choice leaves to bring back home in his wagon.

Crazy Alphabet Dance

Joshua made up this crazy dance all by himself.

Time Out

I had to put Joshua in a time out yesterday because Annette told him not to touch something and he disobeyed. I set up his foot stool against the wall which he initially tried to climb ontop of. Then I held him sitting down as he cried through the last minute of his 2 minute time out.

This morning, he saw the stool, sat on it by himself, and said "time out, messy" and then got up.

I think, but am not positive he got the message.

Playtime at the housing project

Our Bible Study group's monthly activity is go hang out at the local housing project once a month and help out with their weekly arts and games nite with kids from 6:30-8pm. My first reaction wasn't so enthusiastic, as I thought about who I wanted Joshua to learn from, and how tired Annette and I would be at the end of the day to go play with more kids!

But our first nite this week was fun, and Joshua had a blast. Joshua was a hit with the other kids, impressing them by naming letters they would make out of small building sticks. Joshua really likes playing with older kids and wasn't intimidated or shy at all. He really liked playing with this one older 8yr old black girl named Regina, who really liked carrying him around the room. Joshua helped me play Connect Four, randomly inserting red and black chips into the grid; lining up the chess pieces, dominoes, and Jenga pieces; putting together magnetic balls and sticks, drumming on boxes, and eating potato chips. He probably just thinks it's a fun party!