Joshua Updates

It's funny to see that Joshua likes planes, like his dad.


Carmen, says it's a little unusual to see a child who likes to hum and sing so much. He does love to sing, make up songs, play music. When we make up new songs, he just loves to go with it and sings along.


We had a blast this Easter inviting Joshua's friends from his old Korean playgroup over for an Easter Egg Hunt. The grownups were eating dinner in the dining room, and the three boys ate their easter egg goodies in the living room and ran around together all evening. It felt like a family get together. It was fun to see Joshua so interactive and having so much fun--before when they were all younger, Joshua would mostly play by himself in the playgroup.

When we went to a Easter brunch, he said, "Yeh! Happy Easter! God isn't dead anymore! He's alive again!"

Joshua has always been a bit hesitant on the playstructures. This week, he was practicing sliding down the fireman's pole at home, using a broomstick. Then we practiced at the school playground:

Yoga

Joshua gets Yoga classes at school. Here he is demonstrating the orange bird and tree poses, with singing of course.

The Monkeys

It's Springtime, so we took advantage of some Zoo passes from the library to visit the lions and monkeys again. It was only after the photo was taken I realized the similarities between the 2 families above.

At the zoo, a kid gorilla came right up to the glass in front of Joshua, sat down, vomitted into her hands and showed it to Joshua before she ate it again.

Joshua was running around the gorilla habitat, really excited to see all the different animals. He hasn't been to the zoo in awhile, and it was neat to see his enthusiasm and interest.

Joshua the firefighter

Sometime in mid January, Joshua made the transition from being obsessed with trains, to being obsessed with fire engines and being a firefighter.

He will ask us, "Do I look like a firefighter?" And when we say "yes," he continues, "Why?"Annette and I feed his obsession: with this cool Fire Chief outfit with helmet, bullhorn, and fire extinguisher. I've checked out 6 different children's books from the library about fire trucks/firemen. We even read a book that was called, "My mom is a firefighter!"

Spring break in Miami

We made our annual pilgrimmage to the beach for Spring Break. This year, again to Miami because we had such a good time last year and Miami has a quick direct flight from Boston.

As usual, Joshua could spend the entire day just digging at the beach and singing songs to himself.

He did get into the pool once in awhile.

And did a lot of eating al fresco.

Taped truck

Joshua can spend hours in his room, making up stories and songs, and building things. Today he made a ramp for his tow trunk and completely taped it over. He is quite meticulous in his construction--I was impressed.

All Taped Up

Joshua wrapped himself up with tape, but not because he wanted to be a mummy--he wanted to be a firefighter!