Just the Three of Us: 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Artist!

My little artist! Josh is busy plowing through all of his gifts. This is his first masterpiece with Santa's easel, paints and canvases.

Thanks Grandpa for my birdhouse kit!

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Merry Christmas!

Santa Came!

Grandpa Jim's gift of the remote control car got the best reaction of the day. Lots of fist pumps and yelling "YES! YES! YES!"

Aunt Kathy got Josh his own wrestle buddy like Dad's! He has also named him Fred.

Basically, Josh got a lot of stuff! :)

Actually, it was one of the best Christmases we've had in a while. I just didn't take very many good pictures. We got to wake up on Christmas morning in our own home for the first time in three years! We had a great day and holiday season teaching Josh about the Savior and learning from the scriptures and making and doing new and old family traditions! It was great and we hope that everyone else had a perfect day as well!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Christmas Events: Santa's Helper

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Christmas Events: Looking at Lights

The Tichenors gave Josh a pack of the neat glasses that you can use to look at Christmas lights and see shapes. He LOVED them. We started with the tree and then took our regular walk around the neighborhood. Every few houses we had to stop so he could trade out glasses. There were snowman, Santa, snowflake and reindeer shapes. Fun!

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Gingerbread!

Pre-made gingerbread kits are my new favorite thing! Gone are the days of hard to make gingerbread houses. We used the mini village last year so we opted for the big house and giant gingerbread man this year. No baking, cutting, mixing and buying multiple bags of candy that you'll never eat! Just great! Josh loved it and had a blast.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Christmas Events: Church Activities

Our church has an annual event we refer to as the "Creche" or "Nativity". It has nativities from all over the world that members set up for visitors to come see. This year they had various people and groups perform live music including the kids Primary class. Josh is up there in a white shirt and tie. He loves to sing so he was very excited.

Then today we had a big ward breakfast and Santa came to visit!

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Nonna!

Visiting Nonna after her shoulder replacement surgery. His cute little face can cheer anyone up.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Christmas Events: Working with Dad

Lowe's Build and Grow! He made Santa's sleigh, the Sandman's plane and a gingerbread house this month!

Josh and Greg help set up Nonna and Papa's train and village under the tree.

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!

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