I'll start out with two random photos I got of Joseph this week that I thought were funny.
The first was taken Monday morning. He and I were about to go out, and there was a slight chill in the air, just enough to necessitate a light sweater. Well, when I put the hoodie sweater on him Joseph INSISTED on pulling the hood up, despite the fact it wasn't nearly cold enough for it. He kept pulling it up and saying "HAT!" and laughing wildly. Here is my silly boy in our hallway...
In this next random pic you can see Joseph squatting and staring at a very small black dot. This black dot was, in reality, a small cricket that had gotten into the house. Joseph was tremendously interested in watching it hop around. Unlike his mother, he seems to really like bugs and isn't scared of any of them (in fact, back during the early summer he got stung by a bumble bee because he reached out and grabbed it off of a bush in our yard!)
We did some fun stuff with school this week (including learning how to say "banana" in Spanish and playing with a hand puppet. One thing I did NOT really enjoy this week, however, was our book for the week. I try to use the books our toddler curriculum calls for, an most of them I adore, but not always. This week's book was Chicka Chicka ABC. Truthfully, I just found it boring, and I didn't think the rhythm was done very well. Oh well, can't win them all as a homeschooling mom. I still took a picture of the book, despite my lack of love for it.
Friday afternoon, we had a truly terrifying thing happen! For the first time in his 23 months of life, I thought Joseph was going to 100% refuse to take his nap. Seriously, I have no idea what happened. Three attempts were needed to finally make it happen. Each time, when I would put him down, I would watch him on our monitor. He would progress from rolling around, to babbling, to crying (at which point I would go get him). BUT, on attempt #3, he finally went to sleep (almost 2 hours later than he normally does). Crazy! Here are some monitor pics from the ordeal...
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| Just looking around. |
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| STILL looking around. |
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| And then to crying, so in went mommy. |
Friday evening, when David got home (and after Joseph's very late nap), we went to the Greensboro Greek Festival. This is one of our favorite events each fall! The Greek Orthodox church is very very close to our house so we usually walk to the festival, but Joseph was very hungry this year so we drove. For the first time ever we ate inside instead of outside because they were playing the music outside SOOOO loud. Joseph loved the Greek chicken and Greek green beans!!!
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| The blurred motion of a toddler! |
One Saturday evening, we had some friends over to our home for dinner. Joseph helped with clean up by sweeping the hallway!
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| He was only smiling at this point because he hadn't heard the score of the Carolina game at that point :-( (Oh, and the scarred up face was from a face plant on concrete earlier that day) |
A few times a year, David and I, along with another couple, help provide some snacks for a newcomers group at our church. Joseph has had some pretty extreme separation anxiety and always has (which doesn't bother me at all at this age because I was the same way!), and so he does not stay in the church nursery. Instead, he comes to service with us. But Sunday, because we stopped by the Newcomers classroom to drop off the snacks, he saw a classroom and ASSUMED it was the nursery and we were leaving him (despite the fact it wasn't set up like a nursery and everyone in the room were adults). He started sobbing hysterically and clinging too us. Poor, sweet child! Once we made it back to the church lobby, near the sanctuary, he realized he was indeed going to service with us, not being left, and finally calmed down. Sweet boy was extra still and clingy (note the hand clinging to my leg in the below pics) before service started and during the music (as if to say "Thank you so much for not leaving me! I'll try to be good! Please don't go anywhere!) lol. Then, after the music was over, he was so worn out from his traumatic experience that he fell fast asleep on my lap! He slept like a newborn throughout the rest of the service! Love that precious boy so much.
Sunday evening, we had another fun fall event - our annual neighborhood picnic! It is held every September by one of the lakes (Lake Euphemia) in our neighborhood. Such a great time!
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| The band |
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| The line for the hot dog cart |
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| David and I sold the hot dog tickets for part of the time |
After our neighborhood picnic Sunday evening, we came back and played outside in the backyard for a few moments before Joseph's bedtime. I don't know why I felt like taking pics, but I did. I love the way the light comes through the sky and trees on a fall evening.
Hope everyone had a great week!
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