Just the Three of Us

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Day Out with Thomas

Josh loves Thomas! It was a great day. We had a blast!!!!

Giving tickets over to the station man.

Riding on THOMAS!!!

They had lots of trains to play with as well as stamps, stickers, coloring, mini golf, etc. They had a great gift shop where Josh was spoiled by the Grandparents, of course.

Playing on the yellow train... He was really confused at why the door wouldn't open.

We saved up for a while to be able to go to this. This year we were rookies, next year we will know how to work it. Josh was mostly excited to see the big Thomas and play on the other trains. You didn't need a ticket to enter the event, only the train. So we don't have to buy the tickets next year. They have a little train for only a few dollars that we can ride and just enjoy all the other events. They even have a tent for nursing moms and diaper changing.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Recommend: Coffeemate - Not just for coffee

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My father-in-law makes the best pancakes. I finally learned his "secret" ingredient and have fully enjoyed it. I use any complete pancake mix that all you need to add is water. Instead of the full amount of water, use the liquid vanilla coffee mate for 1/4 to 1/2 of the requested amount of water. Then cook. Y-u-m-m-y!!!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Oak Mtn State Park: Petting Zoo

It's getting warmer. Hopefully we will be good for shorts soon. Josh has grown out of his pants.

We had fun at the zoo today. Josh did really well exploring all of the animals w/o getting scared. He was sad that there was no pig. All they had were baby pigs. I didn't ask what happened to the big guy. All of the birds and baby animals are in the little "barn." When we got to close to the rooster "cock-a-doodle-dood" right in Josh's face. Needless to say, he's not to happy about it. He keeps telling me "the rooster scared me momma." But overall, it was a fun time!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Our Favorite Place: Aldridge Gardens

Thanks goodness it's warmer outside. Fall and Spring have so many great qualities. Including the weather being nice enough to venture to Aldridge (our local Botanical Gardens).

Josh just refers to eat as "feeding the ducks." I never thought I would be excited about having stale bread, but I always need at least half a loaf to go and I hate wasting good bread!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Not Recommended: Generic Tylenol Simply Sleep

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As usual, I bought the generic medicine. I hadn't been sleeping very well, go figure...

Josh is finally sleeping through the night and now I can't!!!

So I have almost finished the whole package and it's not working at all.

I wonder if the real stuff would do any better...

Monday, February 15, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day!

Greg was out of town as usual on Valentine's Day so Josh and I had our own little celebration!
He loves Toy Story or as he says "Buzz Movie." Gotta love the industry sometimes. They had plenty of Toy Story goodies to choose from.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Our One Snow Day!

If we are lucky enough to get good play snow, you have to drop everything you are doing that day to run out and play!!! It only lasts a few hours. We had a blast. Josh loved it!

Joshisms

9/11/09- While visiting the grandparents, Mike fell asleep on the couch and was snoring loudly. Josh finally said "Papa, turn off!"

10/28/09- Greg was playing with Josh on the floor and laid down. Josh sat on his tummy and said "Dada hiding!"

10/30/09- Josh was eating crackers. He gave Greg one and after he ate it Josh asked Greg "Where did it go?" When Greg told him "in my tummy," he lifted up Greg's shirt to look for it. Then he lifted his own shirt and tried to hide a cracker on his tummy, under his shirt.

11/5/09- Charmaine hurt her knee during the day so she was limping. They watched Josh that night so Josh started limping around like she was.

12/24/09- Josh was sitting on Uncle Chris' lap and his phone vibrated from his pocket. Josh jumped down and said "Chris poopy!"

12/25/09- My favorite Christmas moment: Greg's grandmother walks with a cane. Well, Charmaine bought Josh one of those canes full of candy that is about a foot tall. Immediately after she gave it to him, he started walking around using it as a real cane.

1/5/10- Josh frequently asks about where people are. Everyday we play the game of "where is____?" Usually everyone he asks about is at "work." So he will always repeat "they are at their job." Today he said, "I go to my job" and went up to his room to play.

5/10/10- Josh loves water! He chugged a bunch today, put down the cup, smacked his lips and said "mmmmm, that's good."

8/5/10- While helping me pack up the grandparents house to move them, he packed the tupperware in the box more organized than I would have. He said "I'm a big boy helper. I did good job!"

8/6/10- Josh never eats ice cream. He says it's "too cold." But he took my cone tonight when we were at Jason's Deli and licked it all off the top. When he got to the cone he handed it back and said "I don't like the crust."

9/24/10- Josh loves the moon. He's always looking for it. Tonight it's a big full moon. When he was walking to the house from the car, he kept glancing up at it. Then he said "Momma, is the moon coming with us?"

9/30/10- Josh: Why do we need new batteries? Me: Because they are dead. Josh: Who dead them?

10/5/10- It's so refreshing to have so many little things confirm your child, is in fact, yours. I don't use people's name very often. I just don't like to. I don't like mine used often. I call people "darlin', baby, buddy, etc." Josh is "buddy." Well, I have officially become "booty." He now intermittently calls me "momma" or "booty." It's just too cute. *The way he says it in no way sounds like he's calling me a butt.

3/18/11- Josh likes to talk about his "poop" every time he goes potty. At first he would name rewards he thought he should get for every "one" that came out. The first time he did it there were 3, as he pointed out "1 for the hotel (dada's promise), 1 for my car (nonna's promise of a powerwheels) and 1 for Wendy's (his favorite food that week). Now he likes to talk about the shapes, like today's was a shark. Usually it's a mommy or daddy and baby. Gross...I know!