We celebrated Joshua’s 2nd birthday yesterday with a fun little party.  He turns 2 on the 7th but Erick had to leave town so we had his party early.  Erick & I chose a train theme for the festivities because Joshua has developed a love of trains recently.  He’ll pretend to pull the whistle & […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

I swear, my son is the cutest thing ever.  He’s discovered that it’s fun to pretend to be a teacher & read to his stuffed animals.  Joshua will point to the pictures & hold up the book to make sure all the animals can see the books.  For the “touch & learn” books (like Pat the […]

Joshua decided tonight that our couch was just a little too plain-looking.  While I was cooking dinner, Josh was playing nicely & quietly (or so I thought).  I went to get him when things were ready to eat, only to discover that he’d found a ball-point pen in the toy box & was coloring all […]

Our last week in California was great, but I’m glad to be home.  The day after our trip to Disneyland, we ended up going to the Wild Animal Park in the San Diego area with Erick’s uncle Bob.  We didn’t make it all that far because Joshua wanted to mainly run around & play rather […]

We’ve had a couple of pretty magical days in the last week. Pranav’s wedding was beautiful & the weather went from slightly sprinkling in the morning to hot & sunny by the afternoon—totally perfect for the outdoor receptions that overlooked the Pacific from a Malibu estate! It poured a lot the day & night before […]