It’s been quite a while since I posted a Josiah update. He is such fun these days, always talking and saying some of the funniest things. For instance, our conversation the other day as we were leaving a store and walking across the parking lot:
Me: “Josiah, no walking backward in the parking lot. Hold Momma’s hand and walk carefully because there could be cars coming.”
J: “Cars hurt (Jo)siah.”
Me: “That’s right, so we must be careful when we walk in the parking lot.”
J: “Cars hurt you. Cars hit you.”
Me: “Yes, they could.”
J: “Cars bite you. Cars hurt you. Cars try to eat you.”
Me: (Trying not to laugh out-loud, tears streaming down my cheeks.)
J: “Cars eat Josiah. Cars bite and eat you.” (And so on, with much intensity and seriousness.)
I finally figured it out–Thomas had taken Josiah for a walk the other day and they had two serious conversations: one about being careful around cars and the other about ant piles.
Josiah loves to run around and is always asking us to chase him and get him. He also enjoys playing his own version of softball where he wears a baseball cap, throws a ball at one of us holding a bat. He’s always the pitcher. This is from the book, “Curious George Plays Baseball” and attending some of Thomas’ softball games. With the nice weather, we’ve been spending time at parks lately, and Josiah is going down all the slides, even the big twisty ones, by himself. Perfect timing since my lap has all but disappeared.
We read a lot of books these days. Seriously. The kid loves to have books read to him, and will sit forever unless he is really sleepy. I’ve been making separate trips to the library without him, just so I can have more time to browse and get appropriate books. The most amazing thing about it to me is his propensity to memorize words and parts of books we have read once or twice a day for a week.
He knows all his capital letters and is beginning to learn some of the small ones. Thanks to his Leap Frog toy, he also knows a lot of the sounds letters make. A few weeks ago, he went from counting by saying, “1, 2, 3, 6!” to counting all the way to ten. He knows and points out basic shapes everywhere, and of course, letters. One day, while walking into MOPS, he suddenly plopped down in the mud in the parking lot and started pointing out letters, “N, O, P, A, R, K…”
He loves helping with chores around the house such as vacuuming (he runs his own little vacuum), dusting, and unloading the dishwasher. And he also enjoys helping in the garden. He is still refusing to eat meat, even such tasty concoctions as Chick Fil A nuggets–he only eats the breading. I think he would have done well having been born to a family in a less-developed country since he could (and will) eat rice and beans (Spanish rice and refried or black beans) for most meals.
Josiah is always (well, not always, but more often than not), prancing/dancing around the house singing little songs in gibberish or blends of songs we know. It’s so precious, we need to get it on video, but he’s been clamming up anytime the camera is out lately. Here’s a video with some highlights from the past few months:
One of the last clips is of him saying his memory verse from CBS, “Jesus said I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. No one comes to the Father but through me.” -John 14:6. It’s coming along well (though probably difficult to understand with the thing in his mouth) and normally a little better, but you get the idea.
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