Pardon the Interruption

Busy week = a break in my every Wednesday blog post. I promise a double post next week!

3.0 years of age!

"I'm done with the 2s and now I am 3. Am I growing up?" -Joshua as his birthday party ended.

Joshua has been anticipating turn 3 since we celebrated cousin Abigail's birthday on Thanksgiving. We celebrated with family and friends while playing sports, of course.

3-year old Joshua loves: singing, counting, reading, playing ball (of all kinds), playing guitar, asking questions, trucks, pirates, dinosaurs, Cars and watching Dora and Diego.

Joshua was recently heard telling Nana, "My favorite food is cole slaw and cookies." Joshua loves to eat salad, bread and fruit. I never seen him turn down an Oreo either. A frequent question at the dinner table is about what animals eat..."Dad, what animal eats hot dogs?"

Joshua loves going to daycare or as he calls it "school work." This was his report on his day yesterday, "We talked about dinosaurs today. They can talk like us. Big dinosaurs and little dinosaurs talk and so do birds. The man could not walk but 4 people took his mat and he picked up the mat and walked straight to Jesus. I didn't hit or push or scratch or tee tee in my underpants." As you can imagine some days are better than others in various aspects of the report after school but it never fails that he had fun.

Frequently heard Joshua quotes:

"I can do it myself."

"I don't need help."

"Help me please!"

"How was your hospital work Mama?"

"Dad, how was your library work?"

"Watch out for that car, Mama."

"Did you sleep good dad?"

"Let's play_________!" (fill in the blank with basketball, baseball, football, bowling, soccer, bouncing ball)

Dave is teaching Joshua about Star Wars and Super Heroes. The other day at a local restaurant Joshua swung a breadstick, as though it were a light saber, at the college student sitting at the table next to us. Good times!

Dave and I are grateful to say "goodbye" to the terrible twos and look forward to saying "hello and please, stay a while" to the terrific threes!

1...2...3...SURPRISE!

Nana turned 60 last week and we surprised her in Birmingham to celebrate.

To make the surprise even more exciting, it involved Aunt Glo, Abigail, Luke and Aunt B too.

Continuing with a long standing tradition of exchanging mean spirited birthday cards with our dear friends "Miss Brenda," "Miss Marilyn" and "Mr Jim"we all gathered around for the reading of the cards.

It was a sweet time of reunion with faithful friends and celebration of our lovely Nana.

As an added bonus, Joshua got to ride a carousel at the mall.

The carousel was fun. But the free to ride escelators were the best!

New Year-New Playground!

We celebrated the New Year in Jackson. Cousins Abigail and Luke were nice enough to share a new playground they found with us. We enjoyed one beautiful day playing and one very cold hour another day playing. As you will see from the pictures, our panel of experts loved this park!

We enjoyed much more than just the playground while in Jackson. It never fails that we are pampered and spoiled while we are there.