Visitor

We had a wonderful visit from Auntie Heej yesterday (my close friend from college). She won over Joshua's heart early on by brining him a Thomas Train Track set. After that, he thought she was the best! So, we had lunch out, went to the park and then came home to relax. She played songs for Joshua on the piano and he played along, too. It was wonderful to see him connect so quickly with someone new. Today was rather cool and I brought out Joshua's long pants only none of them fit! I am sure I have size 24 mos/2T somewhere and I am going to need to dig them out for cool days like today. After finding one pair that fit we headed off to the barber for a hair cut. It is adorable. See below...



After the hair cut it was story time and then home for a nap. Speaking of which, it is mine turn to sleep, too!

Gone Tubin'

This Friday was Aunt Carie's 30th birthday. Geez, everyone is turning 30 this year!! Her housemate and close friend arranged a day of surprises which we were happy to partake in. The first event was a tubing trip at a local state park. Jason, Aunt Carie and Janet did the tubing while Joshie and I splashed around in the creek. We had fun exploring the water, listening to the birds and sitting on rocks. The water came up to Joshua's waist and he fell down twice, which he did like. But we saw fish, a humming bird, a crane, butterflies and lots of water bugs. He liked climbing on the rocks and stomping up a stream that flowed into the creek. Afterwards we all got ice cream at Rita's. It was a great afternoon/evening!

The night before we attended a baseball game with friends Ron, Christine, Yanna and Val. Josh loves the cheering, music and watching the ball. He is a good baseball fan and claps along with everyone else. The highlight of the game was him wearing his ice cream as a white sticky beard :-)

Antics

Joshua is a riot and really starting to understand the English language. Tonight, he was running around with the squirt bottle and telling us about all the things he was NOT allowed to squirt. "No squirt 'cycle", "No squirt Mommy"... "Squirt Daddy" to which we replied "No squirt Daddy" and he responded, "Squirt Daddy's Shirt" and proceeded to follow through. We were all cracking up.

I am busy uploading photos all the way back to the beginning of June. There are a lot that I missed previously so I will try and get them up as I can. We have been busy the past couple of weeks. The weekend before last we went out to visit Uncle Josh and Aunt Trina and go to a baby shower for them at Grandma and Papa's house. Joshua is a fantastic traveler and did great in the car and on the airplane in spite of the red eye flights. No sicknesses or emergency room visits this time either which was a relief and we got to swim every day! Joshua loved that!

This past weekend we had visits from Aunt Jill, Aunt Tara, Aunt Jo, Memaw and Grandad and we also saw Dylan. We'll have to make an effort to see the Izaguirre Crew since it has been a while since we made our way out to see them! Noella is starting to walk and I hear giving everyone lots of smiles in the mean time!