New in Joshua's World

Once again I find myself having not posted in a long time...so here is a quick recap of the last couple of weeks.

Fourth of July was a blast and we were determined to have some patriotic fun as a family. We went to the Arlington parade Wednesday morning and met Todd & Kristin there. They were gracious to allow us to encroach upon their spot that Todd claimed at 5 am that morning. We watched the parade from the view of Todd's pickup truck bed. It was perfect and a lot of fun! Joshua had so much fun watching the floats, cars, bands, cheerleaders, and many Elvis' riding on small motorcycles.






That afternoon we went swimming as a family and Joshua actually enjoyed his float. Up until this point, I could not get him to sit in it longer than a second. All it took was his dad playing games with him, and he stayed in it for about an hour.

That evening we joined up with some friends for a barbecue. It was fun hanging out, however our attempt at seeing fireworks was foiled by some tall buildings! It didn't matter much, because Joshua was asleep the entire time so we had some good snuggling time.

Two weeks ago we went to Vertical Camp in Red River, NM! It was a blast hanging out with the middle school and high school students from our church and 3 other churches that all came together for youth camp. Diane and Oksana went with us to help take care of Joshua so I could spend some time with the students. It worked out great, and Joshua had some good Grannie time.


It was a very long drive to Red River and this was Joshua and Oksana's favorite sleeping position.





Our beautiful view for the week...

This picture is of Joshua and Karoline, his girlfriend for the week, even though she is 8 months younger than him. There were five babies at camp, all between the ages of 6 months and 2 1/2 years old. It was one big playdate when they all got together!

The Saturday we got back from camp was not spent resting, but spent having fun with our family and the Murrells. Joshua went to/slept through Rattatouie, his first movie to go to since he was a week old. We went out for lunch, took him to a fun sprinkler park, and got ice cream. It was a very fun day, and a good way to get acclamated back to Texas weather (with the sprinklers and ice cream).