Shopping

If you have been around Josh any amount of time you know that if he has to go shopping, he wants it to be at "Wollmart". During our latest trip there, Josh found a new place to hang out while we shop. Probably not the safest but it is funny.

GO Rangers!!

Now that we are in Houston, we had an opportunity to go to a Houston Astros game. Mike, of course, picked a day that the Astros were playing the Texas Rangers. The boys were so excited the night before and as usual Joshua kept saying "can we do that now?" They had so much fun.

The highlight of the game for the boys is when the astros hit a homerun there is a train that runs back and forth. Luckily, the train only ran once.

We were able to get Josh in the game free, but the downside to that was that he had to sit on our laps. Unfortunately, he officially still has no attention span.

Josh's favorite part of the game was:

changing hats about fifty times during the game,

eating,

drinking,
eating some more,
and drinking.

Jacob enjoyed clapping with all of the fun music and learning all about baseball. The reason there is not as many pictures of him, is because he was actually watching the game.

I think dad had a really good time sharing his love for baseball with his boys, eventhough they did not cheer for them same team. Oh, and the best part of the game was that the Rangers won. GO RANGERS!!

POTTY TRAINED!!

We are proud to say that Josh is potty trained! It is such a relief after months of mom and dad trying and Josh's determination that he was not going to no matter what. He is such an independent and complex child. We finally came to the conclusion, the potty department was the one thing that he could control and he did. It was going to be on his timeline and only when he decided. He is even waking up from naps and nightime with dry diapers. Yeah Josh!! We celebrated yesterday with an award ceremony for him. For those of you who know the pain that we have been going through, this is a really big deal!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA

Happy Birthday Grandpa Patton!!

I'm Tiger Woods

Jacob & I just finished watching the final round of the US Open where Tiger Woods birdied the last hole to force a playoff. About 3 minutes later, Jacob began practicing his imitation of Tiger's celebration after his final putt.

My Little Fish

The boys started swim lessons today. Joshua has the 9:00 slot and Jacob the 9:30. Joshua stole the show, as usual, with his outgoing personality the size of Texas and winning smile. Now if we can only work on his attention span. He spent much of the classs asking the teacher if he could go down the water slide now or he wanted to do what the other class was doing across the pool (which was totally out of his league). Whenever the teacher would ask who wants to go first Josh would excitedly exclaim "me first" and raise his hand before she could even finish her sentence. His swim teacher calls him "her brave little one."

Jacob did really good too. This was his first time for swim lessons, we just never got around to it last year. He was very excited also and always volunteered to go first. He is usually so shy so it was very comforting to see him speak up and be excited. At one point he even yelled across the pool "Hey mom, look at me I can hop on one foot in the pool! Is that great?" Now that is impressive stuff. He is very talented. :)

Meanwhile, mom stood by the edge of the pool and baked. Why didn't anyone tell me that swim lessons are fun for the kids but brutal for the parents? It was really hard to stand by the pool and watch all the kids spashing around in the pool staying cool while all the parents baked and sweat in the hot Houston sun with no shade in sight! What a beat down, but I am glad they are having fun. Oh, the day in the life of a mom.

I don't think that either one will be swimming across the pool anytime soon, but it was definitely a succesful first day.

Josh Sleep Deprived

Joshua is borderline on still needing to take naps daily. He denifinitely still needs one, but if we are out and about he can go without one. Usually when he misses though, by the end of the day him and I both regret it. I put him down for a nap today but he decided to play instead. Spaghetti night for Joshua didn't last long as you can see.

Since he fell asleep early, we had a rare opportunity to play an age appropriate board game with Jake. We played Monopoly, Jr.. Dad won one and Jake won the second game.