Gone awhile, but not without tales to report...

Valentines party, notice the sugar on his sweater!

big fork! gotta eat the whole egg at once!

Well I must apologize for neglecting my Josh tales! I guess the time just gets away from me. Josh has been very busy though! He has been enjoying running away from me. For example at Brianna school valentines day party, he ran all the way to the other end of the school. He is so tiny and fast, I get a kick out of watching him run, but am not too big of a fan of MY having to run to catch him. Yesterday at church, I was talking to our awesome nursery worker and off he went again. By the time I went to find him, he was gone! I was a little worried because he is tiny, we do have an elevator and he can reach the button. As I was asking my friend Mary if she saw him go by, I noticed his tiny head running into a room. WHEW! Josh loved football but that has ended for a while, soooo now we are on to NASCAR. We watched the Daytona 500 yesterday, he was more interested in making circles through the living room and kitchen than watching. This prompted my sister to ask him why he was doing this. Jeff said he was waiting to be noticed, and good grief! HE WAS. When he came around the corner and saw all of us watching him he was happy to oblige us with smiles, laughs, and cuteness. The other day he got my coffee cup and poured it into the mop bucket. He is constantly climbing, (we suspect he is 1/4 monkey) He climbs the counters in the bathroom to clean the mirror, he climbs up so that he can reach anything on the kitchen counter, including the coffee pot, the toaster and has been caught putting things into and turning on the toaster oven!! We were shopping at Meijers the other day and we could hear the in store music so Josh and I were happily dancing in the aisle. People were smiling at us, it was very fun. It reminded me that there are many fun times among a few trying moments! As you know he can open the fridge, last night he appeared with a strawberry, we thought Ian gave it to him, until he appeared with a second one. Jeff got up to check and found that Josh had dumped my coffee creamer all over the floor! He often helps with chores like laundry and dishes, this is nice EXCEPT when he climbs on the dryer  to get the stain remover spray (thankfully these things can be locked to not spray, if I could just remember to lock them) or when he gets dirty dishes out of the dishwasher to use. The other day he got a (clean) serving fork to eat his eggs with. He did enjoy the kids Valentine's parties and gave out lots of dinosaur valentines (which he either was telling the recipient he was scared of or taking it back from them!)We got 10 inches of snow last night so I hope to get him out to sled today. Have a wonderful week!