Archive for July, 2008



Potty boy

Joshua is officially a little potty boy!  He pooped & peed in the toilet twice today.  We sat on the pot this morning for quite awhile & eventually he went—yeah!  I’d gotten him a ”Potty Power” DVD & pulled it out for him to watch today since it seemed appropriate & he watched the whole thing while […]

Weird kid

Joshua is quite a weird little kid.  His little quirks are very interesting & make me smile (almost) all the time.  At our FunFit classes, he takes awhile to get used to it but then he has a blast.  He spent a good portion of this morning’s class running around the room with the balls […]

Our presidential encounter

Joshua & I went to the White House yesterday to watch President Bush’s all star tee-ball game on the south lawn.  It was an invitation extended to military families that a friend of mine found out about.  In addition to the players & their families, only 200 guests were invited so it was a pretty intimate event.  […]

Not so happy 4th

Our Independence Day didn’t quite go as planned.  Poor Joshua developed the sniffles the night before & then woke up on the 4th with a cough.  Not thinking much of it, we went out to eat breakfast to start the holiday off right.  Joshua threw up right as I parked the car.  Needing to get […]

A first for Daddy

Erick got home a couple of weeks ago—yeah!  We are glad to have him back so we’re a complete family again.  Even though Erick’s still at work most of the time, we’ve managed to have some fun times when he’s able to break away.  We’ve gone to the park to ride the train & carousel […]