Joshua is obsessed with baseball. All he wants to do is swing a bat or throw a ball.
If he can’t do that, he even likes to watch it on television. He loves helmets and hats and gloves. Sometimes it gets him into trouble, sometimes it leads to humor….
Jessica says the other day Joshua was hitting Elijah with a bat. Poor Elijah. But he can take care of himself, and he’s articulate. He turned to his brother and said, “Joshua! I’m a man, not a ball!”
I think that is very funny.
At Elijah’s soccer game today Joshua and I were playing our own game on an adjacent field. An older girl, probably about 10, kicked a ball fairly hard that hit Joshua and knocked him down. Joshua sulked for a couple of seconds and the girl ran up and said "I’m sorry. Are you OK?"
After a couple of more seconds, the girl ran off and Joshua said:
"I don’t like "ok" and "sorry". I don’t like those words. Those are baby words. I like cool stuff, not baby stuff. Everyone but me is a baby. That girl is a baby. Everyone is a big baby but not me …. or that boy over there. He’s not a baby, but just me and him."
Joshua likes cartooning. He often comes home from school with new creations. His latest creations concern a squirrel who witnesses rather violent, random accidents and exclaims, “ma ma mea”. We think they’re pretty funny, and at least he is learning something at school. Until I can get the originals online, I tried to re-create his…
Why don’t you let us have phones? Why don’t you let us eat candy every day? We have the rightes to drive. We do not have to go to school. We can have jobs. We can drink coke. We do not have to lisin to our parints. We do not obey grownups. We can play…
Joshua threw a fit in the Souper Salad the other night, so I took him to sit in the van. Here’s our conversation….
oh these hillarious boys, i love them soooo much.