4 Years Old!

Josh turned 4 years old in May. It's crazy to think he's already 4. My little boy is growing up.
















That afternoon we went to Pump It Up with some friends to play.













The next night, Adam didn't have to work, so we had our little family celebration after dinner. I made Josh a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday cake, which he loved.




















Josh got a new bike for his birthday. He's not so sure about it yet. He still prefers to ride his tricycle, but hopefully by the time the weather cools down in a couple months, he'll be ready to try out his new bike again.



Josh has been in speech therapy for a year now, and Adam and I can see lots of improvement. He still has issues with beginning and ending consonant sounds, but he'll continue working on it as he does speech therapy again for another year. We're also excited for him to start preschool in the fall. Josh loves to play with his trains and his cars. He can play for hours running his trains and cars back and forth along his tracks, reciting the stories and phrases from the various Thomas the Tank Engine episodes he likes to watch. He likes to wrestle with Lucy, which sometimes she enjoys and sometimes she doesn't. He is very concerned when she cries and tries his best to take care of her and get her bottle for her when she is upset. He likes to build block towers and do puzzles and he loves playing with Mama and Daddy.

Here are some of his 4-year-old pictures.

























































































We love Josh and are so glad we have him in our family!

Catching Up

I had wanted to do individual posts for each of the things I will mention in this post, but that's just not going to happen right now. We did lots of fun things in April and May. My mom cam to visit for a week during the first part of April. While she was here, we went to Pump It Up, a place where kids can bounce and climb around on huge inflatables.







Josh just LOVES climbing all over everything and going down the slide. It's a great way for him to use all of his abundant energy.
































While my mom was here, we also went to Corpus Christi and spent some time at the beach.















Lucy didn't like the water very much.












Josh LOVED everything about being at the beach. He had a blast playing in the waves and digging in the sand.






























Up next is Easter. We had an Easter Egg Hunt with our playgroup friends. Josh and Lucy really liked looking for eggs.


















Oooo, there's candy in here! Bonus!








The day before Easter, Adam and Josh colored some eggs.




























That week we also got to play with a present from Grandma Pratt.













Josh doesn't quite have the whole "sliding" part down yet, but he still has lots of fun playing in the water.