My Growing Joshua

 Joshua is such a pleasant and fun child.  He is growing up so quickly and over the past few weeks has matured more.  His is growing very quickly in his language.  It came late, but he's coming quick.  He'll repeat just about anything you say,  counts from 1-10, knows all of his letters, knows a handful of colors and shapes and is so social.

My favorite things about him right now:

He is still so fascinated about anything that moves.  Here are what he loves and some of the sounds he makes for them: Semi-truck, tractor "grack-or", Car "vroom", Racing Cars "Meaoooh" (as if it's the sound of a car driving by fast), plane "me-ane" while signing airplane, bike "bie", motorcycle "ci-gouh", train "choo-choo", etc.

Like I said before, he is extremely social.  Shopping trips, or all trips for that matter, are filled with "hi", "bye-bye" and lots of waving.  We are trying to teach him "good"  because most people when you say him to him they ask how he's doing. 

He points out all water (lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, glass of water, swimming pools) as "wa-wa"

He is so proud of just about everything that he does.  If he is proud, whatever he did is followed by a round of applause by himself, both hands raised in the air, and saying "a-di-it!" a.k.a  "I did it!"

He is timid about just about anything that is new.  New places, new foods and he is a very cautious kid.  Most of the time he still backs down the stairs and crawls up the stairs.  Even though he loves trucks, motorcycles, monster trucks, etc. he usually won't go stand next to them.  As a story, we thought he would really enjoy the army tanks that are at the Veteran's Memorial Park near our place, but he didn't want anything to do with them.  He could look, point, and awe over them from a distance, but as soon as you get close he freaks!

He loves to push/pull things around the house.  His most favorite thing is to pull the laundry bin around the house.  I try to get our room door closed before he finds them because otherwise they are super loud as they wheel around on our tile floors.

There is an endless list of things that I love about this kid and I really could go on forever, but in short for now, he's pretty awesome.  He's so full of energy and love towards everyone.  He's a little buddy and shadow that will follow you everywhere and loves to be involved with whatever you are doing.  He's just my little growing Joshua...

Here are some recent videos:

With the sparklers on the 4th:



Watching the big fireworks:



His plane ride landing:



At the Pioneer Day Petting Zoo in Pocatello:



His counting and a little bit of "a-di-it!" a.k.a  "I did it!":


What he does on a long car ride with baby crying: