Mail Time!!!

Joshua loves to get mail. I have asked friends to send him postcards from where ever they visit or live. He gets a National Geographic Explorer Kids magazine every other month as well. He gets occasional letters from his Nana & Papa in California so I thought...why not get him his own mailbox.

All I can find is the black ones at the store. Not very much fun for my little imaginative boy. So, today I took it off the wall, took it outside and blasted it with blue and green spray paint.

Before

After

Getting his mail from friends

Some Updates

I've realized I haven't done some updates to previous posts in quite a while. So, here we go...

1. Joshua was day potty trained within three days and night potty trained within a month. We do still have the rare accident, but that is bound to happen. Also, many moms have told me that the potty training process is not complete until the child can pull down and up his/her pants...well, Joshua can do this and quite well. Also, he is now pretty much standing to do his peeing so no need to take his pants off completely so he can straddle the toilet. I am so proud of him and how quickly he did it. Especially since I didn't wait around until HE was ready...I did it when I was ready. He was almost 2.5yrs old at the time and I was tired of changing his diapers. He did it and never looked back.
2. We have gone two days straight of Joshua sleeping the entire night in his bed. I mean the entire night...does not come to our bedroom at two in the morning...he sleeps in his bed all night. When I asked him why he was such a big boy yesterday at breakfast he said, "I'm a big boy because I slept in my bed all night long!"
3. "The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses" by John Breeding is now becoming my latest book to be read. A sister in the hall mentioned it to me and suggested I read it. She said her oldest was a crazy child (very much as I feel Joshua is...his name is also Joshua) and she said it puts a lot of things into perspective for you and helps you to handle your "wild colt". Because let's face it, not all of us have perfectly docile children to contend with so I am hoping that my "wild colt" will grow to be a "wonderful horse".

Letters

I finally got around to doing Joshua's letters. I painted them when he was 3mths old and had little animals attached to them. This time around I removed the animals and decopauged the letters with Scrapbook paper that was wester/farm themed. They look really cute and can't wait to get the painting done in the room so it will look more complete.

Before

After

My Little Gardner

Joshua is going to be quite a little gardner. We bought these little pots at Lowe's and Joshua picked out a Pumpkin and a Watermelon. He planted the seeds and about two weeks later the Pumpkin had really grown.

He's holding the Pumpkin after having it growing for three weeks. He loves his SpongeBob gloves.