Josh's First Game of Horseshoes!

Well, first and last, for now...He thought it was "fun" then turned the giant horseshoe into a train track. Of course. He was the winner. He just haphazardly threw the shoe and got a leaner. Good for him!

I was sad to see the snow melt, but the weather has been warming up this week for some good outside fun!

Snowed In: Day 4

No pics today. Greg had to go back to work but the buses weren't running so he took my car. We thought it would do better on ice patches. He almost got stuck downtown, but no real issues, thank goodness. But that meant that Josh and I were stuck at home again all day. As soon as Greg got home we did get to jump in the car and head to Wal-Mart. I don't think I've ever been so excited to get out of the house to buy milk and bread!!! Now today is Friday and Greg got to ride the bus so have our own car and are on our way out!!! Yay for the wonderful sun melting away the ice!

Snowed In!

I'm sure most everyone has heard about Atlanta this week. It's sad to say, but I think I've watched more news this week then in all of 2010 or at least close to it!

Day 1

This snow was the weirdest I've ever seen. I was so excited to run out and play with Josh, but it was a let down. It was soft powder that wasn't good for anything covered in a layer of ice that even cut Josh's ankles in a few places from crunching through. The only fun part of it was that we could pick up flat pieces of the ice and throw it like a frisbee and let it shatter and slide along the other ice. (Side note: I just don't know how, but some of our neighbors have snowmen out front. It baffles me.)

Sledding...Josh style. We cleared off his roller coaster, but it didn't go far. I did get out a soda box with plastic on it that Josh sat in for a minute on our little hill but he just crunched through the ice. Then I tried sitting him on a regular box and pulling him with a belt. It worked for all of five seconds but he jumped off and wanted to go in. We did play too long. I didn't realize how cold he had gotten. I freaked out when later inside he finally told me his finger hurt and it was swollen :( Poor little guy!

We tried to at least stack a pile to form it like a snowman since we couldn't even form a good snowball, but Josh is the same with snow as with sand...he knocked it right off.

I lived in the snow for years but this is my second new experience all in one day! I had seen a recipe for ''snow cream'' a month or so ago so of course we had to try it out. We just added sugar, milk and vanilla to a bowl of snow and had instant "snow" ice cream. Yum!

Day 2

I guess the pain of the cold was still too fresh for Josh, he wouldn't go out Tuesday. We just played and watched tv. Nothing too exciting. Greg was actually able to get an assignment from his boss so that was productive at least. More news. More wrecks from people that should be at home like us.

Day 3

Okay, now I'm just going crazy. We haven't left the house since we got home from church Sunday!!!! We played a little in the snow today, but it's just not fun snow and Josh gets cold easily. We don't want another issue like Monday. Greg is still home from work. This is so crazy!

Our fun activity today was to see how far Josh could walk holding my hand before crunching through the ice layer. If you look closely you can see foot prints way behind him. He made it a good four-five feet sometimes.

Irony

Josh has been doing so well. He's been in underwear for over a month now and for the most part goes pee just fine. We had even stopped giving him treats for it, b/c it had become a normal part of the day. Just not "number two" :( But in the passed week we've had a major set back. He hardly ever tells us he has to go and will even deny he does if we ask. He ran in to wash his hands after helping me make some muffins and yelled for me. I had to leave him and get the camera b/c it was too funny. He has a small potty downstairs that closes and can be used for a stool so he can reach the sink. So here he was standing on the potty, and he peed his pants :(

Josh's Big Day

Josh loves the Young Women I teach. Since we are leaving, I had the girls over for breakfast at our house. Greg was out of town so Josh was excited to get to hang out with them.

Next, we met my family at a pumpkin patch. It was so great!

Josh got to "ride" a tractor. The pedals were too stiff to use so he just walked himself along.

He actually sat still to get his face painted. He wanted something blue so I just had her do a blue pumpkin. It was cute and Josh was happy with it!

He didn't make it very far in the climb, but this was good for the older kids.

This was awesome! No other adults were getting in, but Renda, Brandi and I jumped in the with kids. They had a huge trailer filled with fresh-picked cotton. (Yes, we itched like crazy later. Especially after Renda hit me with a big handful that went down my shirt!)

They somewhat posed for a group pic. This is my niece Hayleigh, nephew Noah, Josh and nephew Jordan.


They had a corn maze at the entrance of the festival. The kids had a blast hiding in the corn since they were small enough to run down the rows. This was another great idea to make this the best patch to go to!

When we FINALLY found the exit to the maze, we saw a few people headed this way. So the kids really got to run free. (We didn't find out until later that we went the wrong way since we walked all the way to the patch instead of taking the hay ride but at least we didn't have to stand in line twice!)

I was so proud of Josh. As soon as we walked into the pumpkin patch his found a cute little pumpkin. It weighed practically nothing so after two seconds when he was done carrying it, I didn't mind. He looked a lots of pumpkins but he never changed his mind!


I'm just not as good as Josh. I found a cool one that matched his but weighed a ton!!!! I had found a neat green one that I was going to get but saw this one and just had to get it. My brother had to take it from me b/c my arms gave out and I couldn't even carry back to the line to get on the hayride.

We had to wait in line for quite a while so Josh found a way to entertain himself. He thought it was just like being at the beach! He was dirty, but content and didn't run away!

Thanks to Aunt Renda for such a great time! We can't wait until next year!

And to conclude this long day, Josh had an accident. Thank goodness he already had a bath after such a dirty day b/c he fell in the living room and hit his eyebrow on the corner of the coffee table. The SAME corner he hit just months ago with the back of his head. Well of course I freaked b/c his head was spewing blood. We probably should have gotten stitches, but Greg's mom just used strips to close it up and padded it well so he wouldn't hurt it any worse. Poor guy :( I'm just thankful it wasn't his eye, but I hope he doesn't have a bad scar.

Boo at the Zoo 2010

Josh likes "Scooby Dooby" now and of course the "van" is his favorite.
So this was an exciting find!

Of course the train ride was the highlight of the evening.

He played all the little games and didn't pretty well.
I was excited about his bowling skills. I think we will be ready for a real game soon!

There was a huge section for Alice in Wonderland characters including this. Fun times!

The giant pumpkin was a little freaky. He talked very loudly.
I bet the dude inside of it was very tired of this job.

Josh's "Mountain"

This is his new favorite activity, or it was. He keeps asking to do it here but it's all hard wood so it doesn't make for a soft landing. It had become a nightly ritual.