2 1/2 Years Old

Joshua at 2 1/2. Well, this is the only picture I have that is halfway decent from his 2 1/2 year birthday. If you look at our pictures, 90% of them are of Samantha. Joshua refuses to sit still for a picture.

Joshua is gaining some independance and telling us what he wants. Plus, he is telling us that he wants to do it as opposed to us doing it for him. That is great that he is starting to do things by himself, but of course, it takes much longer to complete the task.

We are still seeing the temper tantrums with the terrible twos. They aren't super frequent which is nice, but they are there. Luckily, we aren't seeing any temper tantrums pertaining to his 5 month old sister. Joshua (at this point) seems to really love Samantha. He hasn't shown any real signs of jealousy and he is always hugging her and kissing her, and asking to hold her.

Sleep Through the Night Already!

A full night sleep. That is all I want. 8pm - 6am. Is that too much to ask for? By this time, Joshua was sleeping through the night. In fact, he had been sleeping through the night for several months by now. Samantha won't sleep through the night. No matter what, she is always waking up around 2am. She is hungry, so there is nothing I can do about it. I tried to just rock her. Nope. I tried to change her diaper. Nope. I even tried a few times to wake her up before I went to bed to feed her hoping that would last through the night. Nope. Samantha is starting solids soon, so hopefully that will help.

5 Months

Easter Egg Hunt

I am going to expose Joshua and Samantha to a lot of things for them to learn about different cultures. However, being Jewish, I am not going to stand in line at the mall so that Joshua and Samantha can sit on Santa or the Easter Bunny's lap.

In my community, they have a lot of different events throughout the year. One Sunday close to Easter time, they had a comedy show geared towards 2 - 6 year olds and then an Easter Egg Hunt afterwards. Me and my Jewish friend went to the show with our two year olds and then went outside for the Easter Egg Hunt. (We weren't going to participate, but then we thought, "why not?) All the other kids had beautiful Easter baskets in all different shapes and sizes. (There was even one for a little boy that was shaped as a football. Wow. People do get creative). What did Joshua and his little friend Camille have? Nothing! The two Jews came to the Easer Egg Hunt with nothing. Some people who didn't have the lavish baskets brought bags. Nope, didn't even have a shopping bag for Josh.

The Easter Egg hunt starts and Josh walks over to an egg and picks it up. 1 egg. All the other kids are picking up tons of eggs and putting them in their basket, and Joshua grabs one egg, stares at it, and opens it. Yay, a hershey kiss for Mommy! The funny thing about it is when I get the Monthly King Farm Chronicle (our monthly neighborhood newspaper) a few weeks later. There on page 12 along with the article about the event is a picture of Joshua holding his one egg.