But he's also just a sweet boy. One of his latest things is taking a toy, wrapping it up in a small cloth, bringing it to you and singing Happy Birthday, and then we have to unwrap our present. He just loves to be nice too!
He was wrapping himself up in a blanket the one morning, and decided that he was an egg. So he would hatch, and then wrap himself up again to be an egg again.
Playing with the new dolphin toy for the pool.
One of his favourite things to do is sit on our bed and read stories with me. But just sitting on the bed isn't good enough any more. He now wants to sit "in your cot". He'll sit between my legs and then put a blanket over himself and then he's ready for his story.
And one of his favourite stories, which he will repeatedly ask for, is the "troll story" (ie The Three Billy Goats Gruff). I got a book of beautifully illustrated fairy tales, which he recently discovered, and he likes all of the stories, but his favourite is the very last one - the troll story.
He's started to learn a lot of rhymes from school, and we'll often hear him reciting them over and over.
He's also learning some of the books that we read often at home. The one morning he recited "Driving Down to Grandma's" as he paged through the book. And he had it about 95% correct! Most of what he got wrong is what he is obviously hearing wrong, but that's normal at his age...
Josh threw these things up onto the shower door, and look how they ended up!
I'm not sure if we get take outs too often... But Josh has pretty much decided that all take away places are Chicken and Chips. Some times he'll talk about "Mac-in-donalds". But what he also likes to do is wave at places as we drive past. So he'll wave, "Bye Chicken and Chips", "Bye Aunty Lindsay" (his swimming teacher)
One evening he suddenly got a bit upset about our cars parked outside our house, which he can see through the small windows next to our front door. He was saying that there was an eye on my car (presumably the light). He at first wanted us to carry him past the windows so that the eye couldn't see him, or he would crawl under the window. But then we put some books in the windows which effectively blocked them. And then he was happy. It took a couple of days for all of this to progress though, and in that time we would take him outside to see the car and touch it and see that there was no eye. But one of those strange childhood phobias. The books stayed in the windows for a few days and then when I quietly took them away he was fine, and hasn't mentioned the eyes again.
Josh also has a fascination with helicopters (really anything that moves). One afternoon there was a helicopter that flew over our house repeatedly (we're not housing any fugitives - I promise!). Josh was saying that he wants to go in a helicopter, so I told him when he's bigger then he'll be able to, and we'll ask Uncle Ron to try and arrange something for us. Well... for the next few weeks and even longer he would remind me very often that when he's big he's going in a helicopter, and tell me that I must ask Uncle Ron. I'd remind him that Uncle Ron said he has to wait till he's bigger and he'd try and stand as tall as he could to show me that he is getting bigger! One day he'll get to live that dream!
My cute boy:
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