shadow.

remember the game, shadow, we used to play when we were annoying middle school kids trying to get attention. you would repeat whatever your friend was saying until they couldn't handle it anymore and just stopped talking or in most cases screamed at you to stop.

well, i think joshua has caught onto the game and is not telling anyone. he seems to be repeating anything everything we are saying which is forcing us to be more cautious of what we say around our copycat.

the other day when we were leaving the pagala's home i said, "peace out!" to jay and jenn. not even a second later joshua says every so slowly as to get the pronunciation correct, "peace... ouut!" i couldn't stop cracking up!

some other new words and phrases that joshua has picked up are:

check it out!
cool
awwwsome.
weeen transalation halloween
tinkerbell
pillowdough transalation playdough
wrong side
crazy!
keep trying

there are so many others that i cannot remember right this minute.

i remember i time when i was worried about joshua not talking early but really i had nothing to worry about. i just had to be a little more patient and remember that joshua like most children do things in their own time.

we are sitting together right now and he has happily sculpting, rolling, ripping, poking, and smashing his playdough with his hands. i cannot believe that he is becoming such a big boy. can i just bottle up this time with him and save it for when he is so big he doesn't want to hang out with me? i'll save it for this blog instead.

daredevil.

tyty is quite the little adventure seeker. here i am watching him climb into his brother's recliner from ikea. its just small enough that he can climb into it but big enough that he has a hard time trying to get out of it. currently he is sitting in the chair creating a diamond with his legs out in front of him, holding his toes and laughing at me in that way that lets me know he is up to no good.

wait... he just changed position. now he is slumped down in the chair... kinda like julia stiles was in save the last dance when sean patrick harris was trying to teach her how to sit like a bad ass. this is classic. ok.... i think now he is attempting to get out of the chair. tyty throws both his legs to his left side and his torso soon follows, he is on his belly now, and he is sliding off the chair ever so gently. and he both feet had toucher the floor!! first sucessful attempt! yay for tyty! (glad you could be here with me for that one!)

his usual (funnier) way to get out of the chair is to lean forward in the diamond position. it often looks like he is going to hit the floor head first. but then he will have enough sense to reverse himself so that he is sitting in the diamond position facing the back of the chair. he carefully pulls one leg out from under him and attempts to place it on the ground but because the chair is a little too big for him he can barely feel the floor! it's really so cute! you need to see the caution on his face. when he finally touches the floor he has this look of relief and he almost sighs.

so by this time tyty is face down, one leg reaching down to the floor, while one leg is still stuck under his body weight. once his left leg is reaching down he attempts to pull his right leg from underneath himself... but the poor thing just cannot seem to get it out from underneath his body weight. he tries and tries but to no avail. usually he will pull himself up and rest for a bit and try again. other times, he will look at someone with those big beautiful eyes of his and work his magic on them. then they just lift him up out of the chair to freedom!