Swimming lessons

We enrolled Joshua at the MIT swimming lessons again this summer, and this past weekend, while he initially was a tiny bit hesistant at the beginning with jumping into the pool into my arms--wanting to hold my hands as he jumped in, by the end of class--he was fearlessly hurling himself into the water, and even trying to do the doggie paddle back to the pool edge. I was super proud of him.

Fire truck bed

This week, all of a sudden, Joshua decided that he was too old for the crib. So he started to sleep at night in his fire truck toddler bed as well as for his naps. Joshua astounds us with his obedience. Sometimes he'll pop out of the room, but I just tell him that if he comes of the room too early, I'm going to put him back into the crib--so he just walks back to his room and gets into bed. We installed a timer to a yellow lantern in his room--his "sun"--and told him needs to stay in his room until his sun turns on. It's working so far.

First Poop!

While brushing his teeth tonite, Joshua started straining--his usual pooping routine, but halfway through, he stopped and told me, "I want to poop in the toilet." So onto the baby bjorn I put him and he plopped a little poop into the toilet for the very first time. We were all so proud!

Yoga

Joshua asked for his yoga mat and demonstrated "downward dog" and "warrior pose" for us. Annette's been teaching him.

The Good Samaritan

Joshua's favorite story in his Bible is the story about the Good Samaritan. He's always asking for that story. I think he's really drawn to the story about someone getting hurt and needing help. He has a very caring heart. His second favorite story, is about the friends who lowered the sick man through the roof so Jesus could heal him.

Body Painting

What? I'm not supposed to paint my body?

Preschool at last

We got a call last week to say that Joshua got accepted to preschool! We were #140 on the waiting list for 17 spots, so it seemed very surreal when we finally made it in. We had gotten rejected from so many other schools, and it's been a long waiting process. Morse Preschool here we come. Joshua will start in the beginning of September, right when Samuel is due to arrive. Both Annette and I are already missing our little boy and get a little emotional thinking about him entering the real world.