Wow, Josh is growing!

It is truly amazing to watch Josh grow. Here are some random thoughts about Josh growing:

• He finally got his last canine tooth on Monday. We thought it was never going to break the skin.
• Everyday he seems to have learned a new word. We can't even being to guess how many words Josh has now a days. Josh is also starting to use two words at a time more often.
• He continues his great love of books and we will continue going to the library for story time when it starts back in September.
• He is also growing stronger physically too. He can walk longer, push heavier things, kick better, jump, and lets not forget he is getting heavier to carry too.
• He has definitely become more stranger wary which is a good thing.
• He has learned landmarks while we are driving. Josh know which house is before the fire station so he starts his version of a siren when he sees that house. He also knows the gym and starts saying "Patty" (his favorite nursery lady) when he sees the gym.
• He has started to put his toys away when asked and sometime by himself, although this is still a work in progress.

We got lots of pictures for everyone this time.

Here Josh has his pet snake. He now asks us to get her out so that he can hold her. He is very gentle with her.

This is what happens when Josh has asked you to "rean" (read in Joshism) for the twentieth time and I do mean twentieth time. He loves this book.

O.K. we had not bought Josh any new toys in a long long time and we couldn't stand it anymore. So, we got him a giant Tonka dump truck and a whole bunch of plastic animals. He had so much fun playing with. Watching him play with them it made buying them totally worth it.

Next few pictures are from my niece's first soccer game on Saturday Aug. 9th.

Marianna kicking the ball.

Here she stopped to pose for a picture and say Hi to everyone.

Josh loves to play with balls and he just couldn't help himself when he saw all the soccer balls.

The two boys (Josh and Alex) get along so well together even though Alex was kicking Josh a little bit when I took this picture.

I took this picture because it reminded me of almost a year ago when Josh was raiding the nannies purse while we waited for him on Gotcha day.

The weather has been so beautiful it was perfect for a little boy to play with his BIG dump truck outside. Josh ran all over the yard with his truck.

Did you know that you could sit on a dump truck like this? Who knew?

Look rocks!

Tonight Josh took some of his plastic animals in the tub with him. Animals need a bath too. He is constantly lining them up so he lined them all up on the tub too. Did you know that a brown bear was bigger than a dinosaur?

One last thing. Today was Josh's first day with the Bowersox's. Matt said that when he dropped Josh off he headed right up stairs to play with all the toys. Although he did not take a nap, Andy and Jamie said that he was good today and that he ate a ton. Image that. He had fun playing with their daughter, Gabi, and their dog, Malcolm. We are so blessed to have wonderful people in our lives to help us out in a time of need.

Love, M, J, and J