Toys

I swear if Joshua gets ONE more toy I am going to go crazy. I went through all of his toys this past weekend and bagged up all the toys he hasn't played with in months. This is becoming a nightmare when it comes to what to play with. He has his select few that he loves. All his Cars toys and he loves his little Toy Story characters and takes them just about everywhere. The rest are just there that he will play with intermittently now and then. I refuse to let my son grow up thinking that he gets any toy he wants because he can easily get it at the stores. I don't recall having this many toys when I grew up. I do know I had many dolls, but I also shared them with my younger sister. Really if anyone wants to get him something...clothes (3T and up), books, or shoes (size 8 and up) are always welcome, but toys are not welcome at this point. He is content with what he currently has on hand.

Day Potty Trained

Last Tuesday while writing up my grocery list I thought...Why am I spending $15 a week to buy diapers for Joshua. So at 10am I said that's it I took his diaper off and put him in big boy undies with Cars on them. We had about five or six accidents that day. Wednesday came along and we had one small pee accident and one major poo accident. Thursday he did great and only peed his pants because we were running around outside and I got distracted on the phone with Auntie Sissy. Friday...well, we left the house for a doctors appointment and I put pull-ups on. We ran some errands after the appointment and at the stores we went immediately to the restrooms. He came home with a dry pull-up. Then on Saturday we had another poo accident and he looked so devastated, but I keep reminding him that I am not mad and that we'll catch it next time. Sunday he went to meeting in pull-ups and we went potty there, then came home where he wore big boy undies till we went outside where he wore a swim diaper so who knows. Yesterday, was our first day of absolutely no accidents at all and we go about every two and a half hours to the potty. Every morning the first thing we do is sit on the potty and Joshua reminds me that "Pee and Poo only go in potty."
He is doing so great and I am thinking that we may have a Potty Training Party when he is all done. Hey, we'll do anything for a party around here.

Scooby Doo, Where Are You?

Joshua LOVES, Scooby Doo. I have five episodes recorded on DVR so that he can watch them continually. He  always gets to watch his episode at 7:30pm every night before going to bed. He is very inthralled with the show. I love it. I remember growing up watching Scooby Doo reruns on TV. I managed to find the complete series on DVD through Amazon.com and plan to get them for him in a couple of months...might even throw in the TY Scooby Doo doll for him to hold while he watches the DVDs.

Below are some pictures of him the other day sitting on the couch cushions watching a recorded episode.

The box set...in the cool Mystery Machine

Swimming

It's only April here and it's already in the 90s most days. It's unbelievable. So two weekends ago I pulled out our pool and set it up so he could play in his beloved water. Then a few days later I put his slide into it, which he now loves because he can swim under the slide or climb the steps and go down the slide. He just plain loves playing in the water. I can't wait to let Matthew play in the water with him.