Whoa....two days in a row!!!

Joshua has added "twinkle twinkle" to his song list. He only sings "twinkle twinkle" and does the hand motions as you sing the rest of the song, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. He also sings "issy bissy" for the Itsy Bitsy Spider song and will do all the motions for it. And there is a song from church about things God made and he does all the motions for that too. It is funny to watch and see his 'wheels' start turning in his head as he puts things together. I had forgotten about going through this stage with my sister's kiddos. When they started figuring things out and connecting the 'dots', it is like a whole new world to them. The same way with Joshua.

We also broke out his potty seat this week. He is having fun playing with it. Taking it all apart. Sitting on it....in chair mode & stool mode. Taking the pee guard in and out...I wish it attached better, but oh well. He has figured out how to make it sing but touching both sensors....yes, it will sing when he makes a 'deposit'. Oh yea, the box provides lots of fun too!

In addition to putting up our Christmas things both inside & out this weekend, we have a parade, party & shopping trip planned. We are planning to go the The Adolphus Christmas Parade on Saturday morning. Then we are Christmas partying with my father's family. Always a sweet time, we don't see them that often and it is always nice to get together. There will be an ornament exchange.....exchange=stealing.....event as always. I like to think that the ornaments that Jeff & I have picked out will be hits with everyone this year.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend flew by. We went to Arkansas on Thursday mid morning and returned home Sunday night. It was a great trip despite the rainy weather we had all weekend. Joshua loved to play outside....after all, there was so much to taste out there....like rocks, grass, sticks and such. We rode him around quite a bit on the four wheelers. He kept wanting to fall asleep when he would be ridden around. He did actually go to sleep with Uncle Brandon (a.k.a. Buka Buka). I think he went to sleep riding around with Mom as well.
David fried up two turkeys. One Cajun for the adults and one not Cajun for the kiddos. It was good eating...throw in the stuffing in the new roaster, green bean casserole (my favorite), sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes & cranberry sauce and it was really good eatin'.

On the poll about what Joshua would ask Santa for it was decided that he would ask for......drum roll please....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................


the Tricycle. So, now we are off to find a tricycle. Several people sent comments about the safety of a fold-and-go tricycle, so we will look into more in depth & search out similar models.

Also on the Joshua front...two more teeth. He has gotten them in the last couple of weeks...the incisors....the pointy teeth on the bottom.....yea....all grown in now. He is growing like a weed lately it seems. He thinks he is getting big enough to do things and really he is not. He is still my little baby boy...or so I like to think sometimes. He has gotten to where is no longer likes to snuggle on the couch...or even be still for 3 minutes for that matter. He has developed two speeds.....1. Slow - this is reserved for the first 2 minutes after he wakes up. 2. Fast - this is reserved for all other waking minutes of the day.

He has taken to throwing tantrums over everything. I always swore that I wouldn't be that parent that walked away from my screaming child throwing a tantrum. I, my friends, have become that parent. It is really the only thing that will fix the situation. Trying to talk to him to calm him down, scolding him, distracting him, picking him up....none of this works...but walk away and he stops with 60 seconds. Of course I also swore that my kids would never drink sodas, but Joshua does on occasion....with his Daddy. I don't give them to him...his Daddy does. Joshua has a fondness for Mountain Dew. He loves that crap. And I don't drink sodas so his Daddy sneaks him drinks of the stuff.

Joshua just went to the doctor for his 18 month check up. He did have to get one shot & some blood work done. He weighs 26.8 pounds and is 31 inches tall. He has moved into the 2's class at school. He seems to be doing really well over there. He starts in the mornings in the infants room but moves over to the 2's when all the teachers are back from morning school runs.

We went and did Santa pictures a few weekends back. He did really good. He was excited about seeing Santa. Jeff and I had talked about how cool Santa was and what he looks like. When he seen Santa, he bounced up and down showing his excitement. When he got about two feet from Santa...he froze.....as in ohmygosh, he's real. It was quite funny. The Santa man was great. And we got a spiffy picture from it.

We will put up the Christmas tree this weekend. We are so excited about it. We bought a new tree this year....all pre-lit and fancy. Joshua has been impressed with his Aunt Stephanie's tree, so we will see how it all goes next weekend at home. I am sure that I will be chasing Joshua and Patches (the cat) away from the tree. What fun!!!

I could be missing other things, but I will try to post again soon.

What does Joshua ask Santa for?

We are having a difference of opinion on what Joshua should ask Santa for. Help us decide by giving your opinion on our poll at the top right of my blog.

The Power Wheels Boy's Sport Quad

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The Fold-2-Go Trike by Radio Flyer

I am alive!

Well, well, well.....I guess somebody has really fallen behind on blogging!!!! tsk, tsk, tsk

I didn't have my surgery on Nov 7. I am actually putting the surgery off until late January/early February. Primarily for personal financial reasons....my husband's wonderful health insurance has a $1000 deductible. And yes, I know that my health is more important than anything else, but I made the decision to put the surgery off for now and I will continue to stand by my decision, even if my husband and family do not. As my nurse practitioner put it, the surgery is emergent but not emergent.

Since my last update, has been the pumpkin patch. Just as much chaos and fun as it always is. Joshua thought the pumpkins were pretty cool. If they were too little, he wanted to hold two of them. He wanted to play in the hay on the hayride and strewn about the pumpkins. I took many pictures and even side-by-sided some to show his changes in a year.

My little monkey turns 18 months next week. The first age I always wanted him to get to be....the other is 3. This year for pumpkin carving, Joshua wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin guts, except for the seeds. He wanted to eat them. He would just say "ewww" and walk big circles around the guts. Next year, Halloween should be more fun for him.

After the pumpkin patch, we had planned a surprise birthday party for my sister who turned 30 in October. That's right, she joined the 30 something crowd. She was very surprised, but suspected something when we got to her house and she noticed vehicles parked in strange places. She had been asked to come into work, but hadn't mentioned it to anyone. She had to call work and explain that she wouldn't be coming in as she had been thrown a surprise party. Plenty of gag gifts were given. There was a coffin cake....that was carried into the house like a coffin in carried after death. It was the death of her youth.....all this while she was wearing her New Kids on the Block shirt she got at the concert. We also had tasty homemade ice cream, which my stomach was still not feeling well enough for. Next up is my mother who turns the big 5-0 this year....that will happen Thanksgiving weekend. Not sure how we will throw a party given the weekends activities. Probably will wait until she gets back home and have one. But sshhhhhhh......she reads this blog.....don't talk to loud about it.

For Halloween Joshua was a pirate. A very cute pirate. He scored lots of candy trick or treating.

Last Thursday 11/6, I got a call from his daycare around noon that he wasn't feeling well and was very lethargic. I was ticked that they had called me yet again to come and pick him up. When I got to the daycare they were concerned about a seizure and his temp was 103.5. I started stripping his clothes off him, that is what I have been told to do when his fever spikes way up, way fast. I took him to urgent care. The doctors do not believe that he had another febrile seizure (he had one on his 11 month birthday), but that he was close to that point. After blood and urine work, he has a bacterial infection. He was given shots of antibiotics that gave him sore legs and a followup antibiotic for 10 days. My little man can't seem to catch a break.

I have been researching potty seats online....I research nearly everything for him before I buy it. I thought I had settled on one, but tonight I found another that I would like to see. He moves into a class next week where there are little potties in the room. We have really been talking to him about diapering and when he is dirty or just wet. He is catching on well to all the talk. Hopefully a potty introduction in the next couple of months will go well. I was reading about this one lady who was saying her daughter was potty trained at 7 months......my son wasn't even crawling at 7 months. And I didn't have the time or energy then to worry about potty training at 7 months....I wonder out loud if she lived beyond the bathroom???

In a quick nutshell, there it is.... oh yea.....Election Day. Congrats to our country for making it an incredible election day. Either way, would have been very cool history. I was turned off by one VP candidate, who just couldn't seem to keep their mouth shut or themselves out of every spotlight. We will see what the next 4 years brings about.