Happy Halloween!!

Chelle and Joshua get ready to go trick or treating

Joshua tries his Alien powers on Mummy

The original Little Green Thing (it is written across the front of his space suit!)

Joshua got into Halloween in a big way. He has a bag full of lollies from friends and family and has managed not to eat them all in one sitting! I wonder if he will dream about being an alien tonight? The past two mornings Joshua has woken up with dream remnants on his mind. On Monday he woke and asked for "Smiley Face Tomatoes for breakfast, just like Barney gave me" and this morning he wanted me to find his "green Magic School Bus gloves" and refused all of the real gloves he owns. It is hard when his dreams blur into reality like this because he is so sure that he has those wonderful gloves and did a great job describing the yummy tomatoes (Interestingly enough in the real world Joshua usually hates tomatoes!)

Joshua was healing with his hands again yesterday. He bumped my face and when i said ow! he quickly came up waved his hands over me and said "I will take the pink away.... psssssssssssssssssst! all gone, the pink is all gone. Mummy better now?" The way he healed me was so amusing that I couldn't help but feel better.

Joshua had an interesting moment tonight when we were eating dinner. He looked out the window and said "Poppa is in the tree" and I said "Who" Joshua said again "Poppa, poppa is in the tree" Hmmm Joshua's Poppa was most defintiely not outside swinging in the branches so that only leaves one other Poppa (Brian's late Poppa).... Hmmmm Happy Halloween Poppa, good trick!

Funnies

Here are a few short funnies from Joshua.

FLASH...
Granny complimented Joshua on his "flash gumboots" to which he responded "No, they aren't flashing."

MARK...
Joshua was talking away to himself while I prepared food for a BBQ in the weekend. "Who are you talking to?" I asked. "That little boy there. Mark" he replied. Hmmm so Mark is not just a preschool I.F. (imaginery friend) He is a home-based I.F. now too. Joshua took his hand and ran off to play. Should I be concerned about the large number of I.F.s in Joshua's brain?

TEDDY...
Joshua got a new teddy yesterday from a guy Brian fixed a computer for. Daddy gave it to Joshua and asked what the teddy bear's name was. Brian then popped into the kitchen and as he walked back into the lounge he overheard Joshua say "Teddy bear, what is your name?”

Another Zoo Trip

Joshua and Mummy enjoy a picnic at the zoo.

Joshua's awesome preschool had a zoo trip last Thursday. Luckily Daddy was on holiday andwas able to join in the fun. Joshua enjoyed having Dadddy there. Joshua really liked watching the Sealions get fed; it was very exciting. He also liked the monkeys (being a little monkey himself he probably feels a close connection with them. LOL) We managed to cover most of the zoo and Joshua was tuckered out by the time we headed back on the bus and was asleep in minutes. I think Daddy had a good time too. I only had to remind him to look like he was enjoying himself and to uncross his arms once... 

Roomba Rocks

For my birthday Joshua and Daddy gave me a Roomba Robot (in addition to the tummy bug :o)
The roomba is wonderful. Joshua rushes to clear the floor of any room so robot can go to work and vacuum up all the dust and crumbs. So not only are my floors the cleanest they have ever been but all of Joshua's toys are up of off the floor on the shelves were they are meant to be. Roomba rocks! When Brian charged it and was ready to use it for the first time Joshua ran and jumped on to the couch, picked up his drink and said "Robot! make me a sandwhich!" It was very very cute.

Kelly Tarltons....

Joshua at the helm of a big wooden Goldfish
Now if I turn this...
...then stick my finger in here.....

Joshua loved the machines at Kelly Tarltons but wasn't fussed about the fish. He loved the snowcat ride through the penguin habitat but 99% of his attention was on the tracks not on the penguins. We will definitely have to go to MOTAT soon!

Third nipple

Joshua likes to name all the parts of the body and takes particular enjoyment out of proclaiming "Joshua's got NIPPLES" very loudly. So last week when Michelle was drying Joshua in the lounge after his bath I wasn't surprised to hear him chattering on about nipples but I thought I better rescue poor Michelle from this awkward topic of conversation. Imagine my surprise when I heard Joshua announce "joshua got another nipple. Three nipples" Don't panic, it turns out that the third one was actually a mosquito bite!

For my birthday Joshua gave me....

a TUMMY BUG!!!!! Blergggggggggh it was awful. As a result I have not been able to blog much for the past week or so which in turn means that now I have to have a mammoth blog session to catch up :o)

Here goes......

Doctor Joshua...

Michelle was at our house this afternoon and was a bit sad and tearful. Joshua thought she was sick and when a hug and kiss didn't work he got out the big guns. He started with water. She wouldn't drink the first glass so he got her a second saying "drink, Chelle, drink it" while pushing it to her lips. That didn't stop the tears so next he decided she needed medicine. Into the kitchen he disappeared and we heard a chair being moved. He was at the medicine cupboard with the door open saying "I am just picking Chelle's medicine. (Remind me to get a lock for that cupboard!!) He got her a multivitamin animal (approved by Daddy) but that didn't work either. Next he appeared with a soft winnie the pooh bag round his neck and announced "I am going to fixing you Chelle" Fixing Chelle involved Joshua holding his hands above her head and making odd sounds. It was very funny and even poor Chelle couldn't help but laugh at that. So he cured her. Hooray for Doctor Joshua!

Another funny from this evening: Brian had to work so wasn't at home to give Joshua a goodnight kiss. The girls were here still so they read Joshua a story, said "Night night" and headed to Uncle Brian's computer to play quietly. They were very quiet but once and only once the chair rolled a little and Joshua said "I want Daddy" I explained that Daddy was at work and that he would pop in and say Goodnight later when Joshua was sleeping. Joshua gave me a shocked look and said "but WHO is sitting in Daddy's chair?"

More machines....

Joshua just keeps on inventing. Today when Cheryl and John popped in Joshua came into the kitchen announcing that he had "a BRAND new sheen" I asked him what type and he said it was another "green sheen" with doors and buttons. He said "come on everybody. I show you." But he wanted to go upstairs and show everybody and got a bit grumpy when we said no. Mean old parents.

Then later at Grandad's birthday party Julie was telling us all a story. Joshua interrupted with "excuse me, Aunty Julie. Excuse me" (Ever the stickler for manners) "I have a new sheen. It is green. It has buttons which you press and then .............." But at that point he got too excited and started talking a hundred miles an hour and lost us all. Maybe he will be an engineer when he grows up? I could write a book about "Joshua Green and his marvellous green machines" I wonder if his predilection for green is a result of his family name? Brian, Yumi and I had a running joke when she stayed here that everything green was wonderful because it was green of course. Joshua is unwittingly perpetuating this joke!

Do I look like I am having fun?

Despite appearances Joshua actually loves climbing this pohutakawa at the local park even if he ends up hanging on for dear life!!
 

Joshua in Action

I finally downloaded my mobile phone pictures and thought I would share a few with you. These were taken a couple of weeks ago at a local park. Joshua was very brave and tried out the big flying fox (Mummy was not so brave and had to run behind him ready to catch him if he fell. It was good exercise lol)

Our little Spaceman

This was taken at the planeterium last Saturday. Joshua tells us that he wants to be a Space Doctor when he is big like Daddy. (The green blur is Tasha making sure Joshua didn't require anymore stitches by falling off the pedestal) 

Sprinkler Fun

 

It feels like summer....

It was a beautiful spring day in Auckland today. In fact it was so hot Grandma and I set up the sprinkler in her back yard today. Joshua has been asking to use the sprinkler for months and my standard reply has been, "not until summer." So today when I set it up and let him go crazy with it and then asked him if it was good, he said "yes, it feels like summer" Very cute. Joshua and Chesa had a ball even if Chesa did bark a bit loudly.

When he was playing in the sprinkler Grandma offered Joshua a piece of dried pineapple which he took saying, "thank you sooo much" he sounded like a posh little Englishman. Then later he was chosing a video to watch at Grandma's and turned down all the kid's ones. Instead he asked for the planets ones. I opened the appropriate cupbaord and asked "Do you mean the Cosmos ones?" He said "yes, yes, that is what I need" very proper like. It always makes mewant to laugh when he says things in his posh manner as it is so odd coming out of the mouth of a not yet 3 year old. (Especially when he still refers to speakers as speedles and such like).

Stitches

The stitches were successfully removed on Monday after preschool. Joshua was a model patient and sat nice and still for the nurse. He was very happy because Doctor Mules came to say hello and check out the scar (He told Joshua he had to take more care of his head from now on). Joshua did not cry at all during the removal process, he just created in the waiting room beforehand as he is "sharingly challenged" and then he bawled afterwards as his lollipop broke (Joshua does not like his food broken before consumption AT ALL - he is very picky about this so it was a disaster when the lollipop broke in half almost as soon as it came out of the packet). I am not sure who he inherited this quirk from as Brian and I will take our food anyway it comes as long as it is not raw!

Joshua was walking around Mainly Music yesterday saying "look at my stitches" and pointing to random parts of his head. It was very cute.

Glasses

Joshua wants glasses! Mummy has made 2 visits to the optometrists in the past week and both have ended with Joshua suffering a near critical meltdown because he wanted a pair of the little children's glasses. I had to basically drag him out of the shop last time as he was pretty insistent that he needed those glasses. Then this morning he told me not to put on my new glasses because my old ones were "nice and sparkly" (they may be sparkly but they are also scratched to blazes!!)

The Green Machine

Joshua had a horrid night's sleep as did Mummy and Daddy of course. Joshua must have been dreaming as at one stage he told Daddy to "get the snake, take it out and shut the door" His dreams can't have all been bad though. After he woke up this morning and hopped into our bed for a cuddle he said "Good Morning" to us both and then said "hold on a minute.... I have a green thing. I plug it in and it has things that goes up and down and has doors. The doors open and close" It sounded very interesting indeed. "It is a sheen" he announced.
A sheen hmmm, "A sheen? Do you mean a machine?" I asked.
"Hang on, a machine, hmmmm yes that's what I mean" (Spoken with a very professor like voice that made me want to giggle)
"It is in the back room. Joshua take a have a look" (take a have a look is not a typo. He really says that) He took a had a look in the back room and the sheen wasn't there. But after breakfast he finally found the sheen. It was in the middle of his bedroom floor. Joshua plugged it in and turned it on. He put a little boy in it (don't ask me where he gets these ideas) and the doors closed and then opened and out came Jessie (from preschool). The second time Mark popped out (Mark is also from preschool but isn't real... confused yet? Try living with Joshua!!) It turns out that the sheen makes little boys (I did consider pointing out that Jessie is a girl...) It is also very noisy. Joshua is very safety conscious and likes to keep tight control of its operation. "Mummy, don't you touch my sheen. It is Joshua's sheen. You don't touch it" Daddy was made to sit on the bed with his feet up so as not to interfere with operation of the sheen. Joshua eventually decided to turn it off as the noise was too much for him.

We went to the planetarium show today so I am wondering what fantastic machines Joshua will invent tomorrow morning.

Joshua loved the planetarium especially the vortex simulator. (A red ball rolled around a yellow piece of plastic with a elongated hole at its centre) He appeared to like the Stardome much more than the zoo. At the zoo he was very quick to want to move on to the next animal and said "Joshua go home now" when we were about halfway. His favourite animals were the servals. Joshua saw the servals and said "they are Joshua's cats" Possessive or what? At the tiger enclosure the only thing separating Joshua and the tiger was a piece of glass that the tiger was squished up against. Joshua was in awe... not of the tiger but of the seam joining the glass. At the cheetah enclosure he was more interested in the information boards which were circular and could be spun. I think MOTAT may be more up Joshua's alley.

I wonder if those vortex simulators are for sale? Joshua was mesmerised........

Discovery

Joshua made an interesting discovery this afternoon. Granddad lent down to help set up Joshua's skittles when Joshua stopped suddenly, looked at Granddad quizzically and said "Oh, you've got no HAIR" Poor Granddad didn't catch it at first and was curious as to why I was splitting my sides laughing. Luckily he saw the funny side when I told him. He even let Joshua pat his bald patch!!

Talk swtich

The girls think Joshua's head injury triggered his talk switch as he has been impossible to silence the past few days. In some ways it is nice that he is talking all the time as he does have a lot to say, much of it cute and amusing. However it is not cute nor amusing when he goes in to repeat mode. On the way to Aunty Julie's he was very much in repeat mode "we going to Aunty Julie's now, we going to Aunty Julie's now, we going to Aunty Julie's now, we going to Aunty Julie's now, we going to Aunty Julie's now....."
Then 2 minutes after we got there he started "Joshua go home, now. Ok. Joshua go home, now. Ok. Joshua go home, now. Ok. Joshua go home, now. Ok. Joshua go home, now. Ok......" Argghhhhhhhh. Natasha said "imagine you were on an aeroplane to Japan and he did that. Then what would you do when you got there and he started on the "go home now" part" I don't want to even try to imagine it, it is tooo scary. We might wait til he is past the repeat stage before we make international travel plans (please nobody tell me that they never outgrow this phase)

Another Wedding Story

Granny popped in to see Joshua last night (and check out the stitches) and while she was visiting she told us another funny from the wedding. Just before dessert was served Joshua was a bit restless so Granny took him for a walk outside past the nearby shops and restaurant. When they passed the restaurant she said everybody inside was oohing and aahing about how cute he looked. Then on the way back a waitress came out to talk to him. "Don't you look lovely all dressed up. Where have you been?" she asked. Joshua answered "a wedding" to which she responded "well I think you look very handsome" Now what do you think Joshua would say to that? His response.....

I know, thank you!!

:o)

Menace

I guess it is our fault for giving Joshua the middle name Dennis. He tries his best to live up to that name sometimes. Michelle and Natasha have stayed the past few nights as it is school holidays and they have provided a pleasant distraction to Joshua's head injury. Unfortunately they have, at times, born the brunt of his temper and menacing qualities. Case in point, I heard a ruckus yesterday morning and rushed upstairs to see what was going on. When I was at the top of the stairs Michelle sped past at full speed yelling "No, no, Joshua no........" in her best girly voice. Joshua was on her tail yelling "Joshua hurt Chelle, Joshua hurt Chelle" while menacingly brandishing a marble in his hand. The marble got hiffed at poor Chelle before I could intervene.... But he did get severely reprimanded and made to apologise.

Ouch!!

Joshua is following in Daddy's very big footsteps. But not always in a positive way....
Today Joshua and I headed off to Long Bay for a picnic with my old work mates while Daddy stayed at home to do some work (poor Daddy). We arrived, said Hello, had a ride on the train and then hit the playground. Joshua loves the big capsule playground at Long Bay and was having a great time in it. It is not my favourite piece of play equipment as it seems somewhat dangerous and probably not intended for not yet 3 year olds (he started playing on it when he was 1.5yrs though :o] ) So I went through it with him the first couple of times then he went in it on his own. I managed to get him to go on the more age appropriate equipment but that lasted all of 2mins and we ended up back at the capsules. I went to go up in it with him but he told me to go stand at the bottom of the slide and being Mr Independent I wasn't too worried about him. Seems I should have been! Joshua climbed to the top and was having great fun inside yelling "Anybody home?" down the slide etc. But then I heard "thump thump" followed by the type of scream no parent likes to hear. He was still up top crying so I rushed up the stairs and into the darn thing but he had gone down the slide by that time. I quickly followed him down and gave him a cuddle only to be told by a concerned onlooker that he ws bleeding from his head. It was streaming out. I rushed him back to the picnic and Dr. Pedja took a look and decided he would need stitches so off we went to the A&E clinic. (Brian was told to meet us there) Joshua was being very brave and seemed to become even braver when Daddy arrived and showed him his scars. Boys love being "just like Daddy" The stiching was little traumatic as it involved Joshua being wrapped in a blanket and held on the table by three adults. He was remarkably calm and liked showing the nurse how he could roll his tongue (it was the only distraction Mummy could think of) But he was extremely happy when it was all over. Especially when the lollipops came out. Daddy took Joshua home and treated him to McDs for being a brave boy while Mummy went to retrieve our belongings from the picnic. We are still not sure how he did it but I am pretty sure that it would be a good idea for me to invest in a good first aid kit and first aid classes. Stich Tally: Joshua 2 vs Daddy 80+ (This is one tally that I hope never increases)