Working Hard

Josh with one of his gifts from Aunt Sara and Brett (a hard hat that reads engineer) and a tool bunch from Uncle Carl and Natassha.  He's so serious!

Memorial Day

The last day of the Silver's From Texas trip, finally turned out nice.  We went to the parade for Memorial day in downtown Arlington Heights.  

Josh pulling his weight, really he wanted to pull the wagon himself

Ready for the parade to start.

Papa and Mimi soaking up the sun, a little closer and in less shade

Madden and his family found us, and joined the fun.

Josh on the right, waving to the parade.

Family Picture

 We caught these family pictures in front of the fountain in the Rose Garden at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.  It was a yucky day, and pretty much down poured the rest of this day.

Happy 2nd Birthday (Party) Josh!

We didn't end up with as great weather as last year, but we grilled for Josh's birthday and invited a few of his friends over to play.

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Pinata

Terri and I making the piñata for Josh's birthday a la this blog . http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/05/making-a-pull-string-pinata/  We didn't have to do quite as many steps, but I think it was my first time paper mache-ing.

Afternoon snack

Josh brought the craft table and chairs up from the family room, and invited frog to join him.  On the menu: Bacon bits.  A bit different, but there is protein, and I encourage this pretend play.

Joshphoto

Josh caught this photo of me Sunday morning before I left to work a bridal fair for Mary Kay.  Since we do take so many pictures, he's rightfully been interested in doing what we are doing himself.  Usually the pictures he takes get deleted because you can't really even see what they are.  Then for a period of time, he was putting the camera up to his eye and taking a picture..but the lens was in his eye practically.  Now he's gotten both steps to a better level and actually has a subject in the picture.  Now to start talking about focus...Maybe he'll take the pictures of his own 2nd birthday party.