Wasting time

I should be exercising or cleaning the house right now, but cloudy, rainy weather makes it difficult for me to be motivated to do anything besides take a nap. I decided that I could make myself feel better about being lazy by posting on the blogspot.

Spring has finally started to come. It seems like it took awhile, but we had a couple of weeks of sun. A few of those days it was even in the upper 80's (too hot). While the weather was nice we got out and did some yard work. I decided to try my hand at growing a vegetable garden. Jason and I made some garden beds and Josiah helped me plant seeds. Here are some pictures of Josiah and I planting the garden.

Josiah and I measuring where the rows should go.

Planting peas

Josiah was trying to help me cover the seeds, but he was being a little rough. He ended relocating the seeds instead of covering them. Here I am trying to teach him to be gentle with the dirt.

While the rain can be depressing at times, I am grateful for it because that means I don't have to water the lawn. We replanted the backyard almost a month ago and we have to keep the soil moist all the time for the grass to establish. It is nice to have mother nature take care of that for me for a couple of days. Helps on the water bill.

Josiah and the smoothie

One of Josiah's favorite foods are smoothies. Normally he drinks his smoothie from a straw, but today we accidentally made the smoothie too thick. He decided taking the lid off was easier. Here are the picture to show why Josiah should always drink a smoothie from a straw.

Easter Egg Hunt

They may be a couple weeks late, but here are the Easter Egg Hunt pictures.

Jason and Josiah running in looking for eggs.

Yeah!!! We found some!!

All the other kids ran through the tall grass and missed a lot of eggs. Josiah (and daddy) had the great idea of walking through the grass and picking up what the other kids missed. Josiah found most of his eggs in the grass.

At the end with their full basket of eggs.

Afterwards, the kids took the candy out of their eggs and put the eggs in the back of this truck. There are 3120 eggs and Josiah enjoyed playing in them.

Sorry!!

Many of you have asked me to put pictures of the Easter egg hunt on the blogspot, but the camera is at work with Jason, so I can't. But I will give you an update on what has been going on in the 3 weeks since I last posted.

Last week Jason's parents were here. They were kind enough to help us do some things around the yard. Last Monday and Tuesday were spent tilling up the backyard, leveling it, and planting new seed. The people before us had a huge dog that dug caverns making it difficult to walk around the yard without spraining an ankle. Since we wanted the backyard to be a place for Josiah to play we had fill in the caverns. Wednesday we went to the coast and wandered around for the day looking at the beach and the little shops. It was cold and windy so we didn't stay more than a couple of hours. Thursday we went to the Tulip Festival. A farm north of here plants 40 acres of tulips. We have a had a cool spring so many of them weren't in bloom yet. We hope to go back next week and see if they are in full bloom. Friday we hung around and recovered from the rest of the week and Saturday they left.

Josiah instantly liked his grandma (probably because she is a girl). While Josiah didn't dislike grandpa (he would let Chuck hold him without crying) he definitely didn't like him as well as grandma. I think it is partly to do with the fact that he is a guy and the fact that Chuck walked in on Josiah, without introductions, while he was trying to take a nap and scared Josiah.

This week has gone by fast. We have been spending time outside enjoying the sunny weather. Jason and I started putting the raised beds for the vegetable garden yesterday. We will put dirt in them tomorrow and I hope to start planting Sunday. My dad grew vegetables while I was growing up, but I have never done it. I am not very good at gardening, though I love it, so we will see what happens.

As for Josiah, I can't think of any funny stories to tell. He is getting closer to saying full sentences. He can string 2 or 3 words together in an attempt at making a sentence. He still enjoys playing and being outside. He hates to go inside even if he is hungry and exhausted.

I think that is about it. Hopefully I will be able to get those pictures up for you soon.

Catching up on stuff

Jason left for his spring break mission trip today so I am trying to catch up on stuff and get a head start on things I will have to do next term. I am hoping to have things organized enough that when life gets busy I will have a cushion to fall back on. It is crazy how a couple of busy days seems to set me back a week and I feel like I can never catch back up. As soon as Jason gets back we will be super busy again. Exactly one week from Jason's return from California we will be team teaching a class on working with college students at the Kingdom Builder's Seminar at Cascade. While we already have an outline ready it will take some time to polish it all up to make it good. The same week another term will start which means Jason and I will be busy doing Bible studies and teaching classes again. I have a feeling we will be ready for summer break by the end of this term. Anyway...Jason was kind enough to download pictures off of his camera so I have pictures to share this time. Enjoy!!

To get Josiah and I out of the house during rainy weather we joined the Corvallis Indoor Park. This is a place full of toys for 0-3 year olds to come play and for moms to come and talk. Josiah loves it. Here is a picture of him going down the slide.

It's March Madness so we have been going over to some friend's apartment to watch basketball. Josiah likes to get into the game like everyone else. He yells at the refs and cheers when something good happens. He has learned to take off his clothes and in this picture he decided he didn't want his shirt anymore. I guess the game was too intense. :)

On Tuesday we had 3 trees removed from our yard. If you click on the picture to enlarge it and look through the window you can see what is left of the big fir tree and the men working to cut the rest down. Josiah had fun watching the men work and the men enjoyed putting on a show for him.

This is Josiah helping daddy move dirt to cover the big hole where the tree was. Unfortunately, Josiah didn't realize that the dirt was suppose to stay in the yard. Most of the dirt Josiah moved ended up on the sidewalk. At least he tried.

Cute stories about Josiah

I don't have any new pictures but I thought I would write a little note about what is going on. As usual we are staying busy with campus ministry. Jason has been doing a great job of trying to balance ministry (which can suck away all your time if you let it) and spending time with family. Only 2 week left of this term and then Jason will be taking a group of students to the San Francisco Bay area for a spring break mission trip. Then he will turn around and begin the spring term. Poor guy...never gets a break. But I am so proud of how much he doing and how much the students are growing from his leadership. He is in Bible studies with 10 students and the students learn so much from him. Keep him your prayers as he continues to try to grow our students and reach out to the students on campus.

Josiah is now at the throwing fits stage. While it is really frustrating at times dealing with an irrational toddler, we are handling this phase well. We mostly try to ignore him. Sunday when we were at the student center Josiah was getting ready to throw another fit. I very calmly told him that if he was going to throw another fit he was going to have to go into another room because people didn't want to hear it. So he got up off the floor, walked into another room, laid down, and began to throw his fit. How many of you mothers out there are jealous and wish you child would throw a fit in the other room? :)

That same night Josiah was eating some food and dropped some on the floor. One of the students, just being funny, told Josiah that he had to clean up his mess. So Josiah walked into the kitchen and came back with a broom and tried to sweep his mess off the carpet. He is very helpful when it comes to cleaning. I hope he continues being helpful when he can actually help clean.

Josiah's vocabulary is increasing everyday. We are amazed at how quickly he learns the meaning of a word and can use it correctly. Sometimes it only takes him hearing a word once for him to add it to vocabulary. One of our students called his sister a dork and Josiah is already using it. So if you come to visit or converse with him on the phone, be careful what you say because he may repeat it back to you.

We're sick again!!

Sorry it has taken me so long to post, but we have been sick and then the computer had issues. Now the computer is fixed and my sick son in taking a nap so I am taking the time to give you an update.

Around Monday Josiah's appetite took a dive. A meal consisted of a few bites of a banana or a few grapes. We weren't too concerned because he will still running round like a crazy man. Wednesday night I got sick and threw up a couple of times. Thursday I spent the day in bed because my body ached too much to move. Friday morning after Jason fed Josiah breakfast he threw up on Jason. Josiah hasn't really eaten since. He hasn't thrown up a lot but has had some diarrhea for the past couple of days. He is still in a good mood, but would preferred to watch movies instead of playing. He hasn't lost any weight and has been good about drinking so we aren't too worried yet.

Jason had a busy week of work. He only had one day off and worked overtime on several of the other days. He is tired, but excited about the spiritual growth that is happening with the students. He is hoping for a slower week this week so he can recover.

I think that is all the excitement here so here our some fun pictures.

Auntie Kate bought Josiah this cowboy outfit for Christmas. We had a formal dinner at the UCC followed by country swing lessons taught by Jason and I. We took him to the dinner dressed in this outfit and then Auntie Pam took him home while we went and danced. He looks good!!

This is Josiah attempting to help me with the dishes. We went to get some things off the dining room table and turned around to find that Josiah had pushed a chair up to the sink and was trying to wash the dishes. I hope he will still like to do the dishes when can actually do the dishes.

Jason and Josiah came home from a trip to the store. Jason put Josiah up to the window to say hi and he gave the window a zerbert.