Meet Josh. Some of you have heard about the infamous Josh but now you can see who this kid is that apparently Pearl is in love with. Josh is one of Pearl's friends at daycare and from the beginning she's been fascinated with him. I can't quite figure out why - they never play together and he ignores her most days not to mention the boogery nose. Maybe it's because "Josh" is an easy name to say and was one of her first words. Or maybe because she can boss him around, who knows. While Josh does get the privilege of being talked about on those long, boring weekends at home (for awhile every time we got in the car Pearl would ask to see him) he also gets blamed for anything that goes wrong at daycare (like Pearl telling me, "Josh bite! Ouch" whether he's the biter or not). He also gets mentioned in Pearl's sleep. The other day when I went to get Pearl for our afternoon walk her teachers asked me if Pearl talked in her sleep. Not that I noticed but apparently she talks about Josh during her naps. She said "Josh, sit down!' a few times (oh and "mean Daddy"...who knows where that came from). She's also said his name lovingly a few times before during her naps too. Great. My daughter's not even 2 and we've got to have "the talk" with her. Jeff has also told Josh he's watching him (after barging into Pearl's class one day and saying "Which one of you is Josh?") but I'm afraid the love birds don't care what their parents think about all this. But I guess being the only girl in her class, it was bound to happen at some point.
(ok, maybe just a trade or better yet visit with highest bidder while we go out on a very quiet date)
Twenty-month old piggy-tailed pipsqueak who answers to the name of Pearl. Munchkin for sale eats a lot (at least the past few days) and loves Nemo but is terrified of the aquarium (especially "Mr. Ray"), screams loudly in public, refuses to take naps or hold still and look cute for pictures, tells her mom that her Presidents' day flowers are "MINE," attempts to steal shoes from department stores, and runs around without a diaper on now that she has her own potty chair. Pictures below show full effect of the dwarf's exhausting bounds of energy and moods. The accused is totally exhausting but absolutely adorable and will make you laugh and smile everyday!I thought it would be a great idea to have some fun family today by visiting the Living Planet Aquarium. It started out ok (after waiting in a huge line) and Pearl was pretty excited running around the exhibit but then...Jeff's expression says it all! Although Pearl was still pretty excited at this point she only spent about 3.4 seconds of peering in the tanks, which is so very tiring for her old parents. You can see Pearl literally clinging to me as we watch the "Mr. Rays" swimming in the tank. What a whimp we have - Pearl wanted to watch them but screamed and freaked out if we got too close. I don't blame her though because the first stingray she saw was seriously attempting to jump out of the tank. That pretty much did it for the rest of the day."Mr. Ray" - if you don't know who he is, you really need to watch Nemo at least 500 zillion times!About 5 minutes before we high-tail it out of there and the end of family fun.Attempting to find Pearl some new church shoes. She loves shoe shopping as is evident from her trying to run away with two different pairs of shoes on. Her favorite though were these little wedge heel sandals. Too bad she had blown all chances of getting them by this point in the day with her constant whining.