February 20, 2008 by Joe.

Rough week for Josh. Didn’t get close to his average. I think he was letting the two girls beat him. He is such at flirt… at age 5!

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January 3, 2008 by Tara.

It was the middle of dinner and Joshua had excused himself to refill his cup with water. He returned to the table and proceeded to drink half the water in his cup. He was very impressed with himself and says to me, “Mom, it was this high but now the water is only this high. I drinked a lot! Did you see me? I was really thirsty.” He was beaming with pride.

Before I had the chance to correct him on his “drinked”, my impulsive personality came shining through and I replied, “You’re going to turn into a fish”.

Joe jumped right in, and started making fishy faces as he was drinking his water. I told Josh that Daddy turned into a fish. Joe showed Joshua how fish drink from cups - we were all laughing out loud at how funny Daddy looked and sounded.

All of a sudden, the room got brighter. Joshua turned to me and screams, “Ha! You are teasing! Daddy isn’t really a fish!”

I told Josh he was correct; we were just teasing him.

Joshua confirmed the teasing with a very strong statement: “If God makes you a fish, you’ll always be a fish and if God makes you a person, you’ll always be a person!”

He’s got a point!

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November 5, 2007 by Tara.

11/3/07: Joshua was in the kitchen taping up a paper. “Josh, what are you doing?” I asked. Josh replied, “I’m making a picture for my girlfriend because we are going to marry each other.” There’s a girl at day care named Reese. Reese and Josh are best friends. In fact, Reese has chased Joshua and when she caught him she kissed him on the arm! Last week Reese went to Thailand for the rest of the month to visit family.

“Josh, what did you draw for Reese?”

“I drawed a picture of the two of us holding each other’s hands.” Josh walked over with the picture and sure enough it’s two stick figures holding hands.

“How will she get this picture if she’s far away?” I inquired.

“You’re going to send it to her, Mom. And when her mom gets it she’ll say, ‘Reese, come and look. Joshua made a picture for you!’ And she’ll like it and send one back to me,” he explained.

So…after taping it all up, Josh crammed the picture into a reply envelope. The envelope is one of the pre-addressed ones you receive with credit card offers. He wrote on the front of the envelope, “To Reeeese Josh” and asked me to mail it. I told him I would. It’s hard to lie to your kids but it’s even harder to break their little hearts.

I’m stashing a copy of this email with the envelope in his memory box in our closet. It’ll be fun to open it 20 years from now.

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