While it's kind of a bummer for us both when mother's day and his birthday sink up, it was a little fun since it was the first time it had happened since he was born.
We didn't get to do a whole lot between my parents being in town and church (EvaKate got dedicated as well), but he gets to have a week of fun birthday things and then he'll have a couple friends go play miniature golf with him on Saturday.
It's been amazing to me to watch the difference this year in kindergarden has made. He has no babyishness to him left, he's a grown up kid now!
He's so smart...sometimes too much for his own good : ) If he misses answers, or gets in trouble it's usually because he thought he already knew how to do something and didn't bother listening or reading the directions. He definitely thinks he knows best and will regularly tell me, "but mom, I KNOW!"
He's reading and spelling like a champ, is at one of the highest reading levels that you can be in kindergarden. He's great at math and one of the easiest way to stop the question of "how long until we get there" is to make him count the seconds out of how many minutes we will get there (so 10 minutes is counting to 60 ten times). We'll be driving a long and he'll randomly ask me math questions like "mom, what is 3+3+3+4?" or "what's 40+60?" to which I make him answer and he almost always gets it right.
He's hilarious, and has the greatest laugh. Even if he's telling a joke that totally isn't funny, (like "knock knock, who's there?, orange, orange who?, orange you glad I didn't say tomato) his delivery makes us laugh, usually because he is laughing and his laugh is so contagious.
He's tough and brave. He can wrestle with his brother and dad and the boys on the baseball team throwing in some good hits and elbows. He's gotten hit with the ball a couple times and doesn't cry just bucks up and keeps playing.
Most kids avoid spiders and bugs but Josh actually searches them out and kills them for us (in the house, outside he'll only kill spiders).
Mainly because he's also compassionate. He doesn't mindlessly kill bugs. And he doesn't throw punches in baseball unless the other kids are on him and hurting him. He's great with his brother and sister, always looking out for them and trying to take care of them. He does that at church as well, always tries to help the younger kids. He remembers going downtown at Christmastime and helping the homeless and regularly asks if we can go back again to help the people.
He's sweet. He will still just randomly come over and give me a hug and tell me he loves me, or snuggle with me. He will sit there for half an hour just talking to his sister and trying to get her to smile at him. He loves to just snuggle on the couch with dad and watch baseball.
He is full of energy and excitement and is nonstop until he goes to bed.
He is such an incredible boy, and we are so lucky that God entrusted him to us!
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