Family Updates

I realized recently that I mainly type Joseph related posts. Even though Joseph is cute and all, I thought I should update on what is going on with the rest of the family

One exciting update is that my little brother got home from his mission. He has been serving in London for the past 2 years

Last week Chicagoland Voices had our concert. It went pretty well. You can find us on Facebook, just search Chicagoland Voices. We even have a CD coming out soon :)

My hubby and I got a to spend the day together on the 26th. My parents watched Joseph and we went downtown. We went to Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, and went geocaching. It was nice to spend some time together :)

Now I do have some recent cute pictures of Joseph

He loves to wear a tie, just like Daddy. In fact he'll wear his tie with just about anything :)

I love it when the warm weather comes, because Joseph can play outside. It gives him a chance to get rid of some of that energy. My boy has always loved sticks, rocks, and pine cones, this year is no different :)

More Joseph Cuteness

Its a beautiful 60 degrees today, so we went to the park and Joseph LOVED it. He was sooo cute at the park today, and I thought you would enjoy some cute moments from today's park experience.

1) This park has one of those driving wheels. I was absent mindedly drumming on the wheel while Joseph was playing with some sticks. Joseph came up to me, very seriously, and said "Stop it Mommy. No hitting. You drive the wheel". He then proceeded to show me how to drive the wheel :-D

2) There were some robins sitting in the grass next to the park. Joseph ran up to them yelling "BIRDS!" Of course they flew away. He started to chase them saying "Birds, come back! Please!!!" He then ran over to me saying "Mommy, birds in the sky. Come on!! UP! Airplane!" (Airplane is the game we play where we fly him around the house like an airplane). I started to fly him like an airplane and he said "No, this way. To the birds!" Mommy may be "really fast" but even she cannot catch the birds :)

3) While we were at the park we were joined by Joseph's friend Jake (another frequent visitor to this park). Joseph and Jake were trying to play catch, but of course their hand-eye coordination is terrible. They would both would yell "1, 2, 3" and then one of them would throw the ball to the other one. It would roll right by him and he would run after it. Once you got the ball you apparently had to shoot a basket (By the way, they invented this game themselves). Jake would attempt to throw the ball up into the basket, but Joseph would stretch is hand as high as it would go and wait... like he was expecting the basket to come down to him. He would give up and hand the ball to me, and I would shoot a basket. They played this game for almost 20 minutes.

4) After they were done playing catch/basketball they began to run laps. They would touch the basketball hoop and then run and touch the other one. Where do kids get this kind of energy???

Our New Tickle me Cookie Monster

There was a big garage sale down the street, and they were selling TONS of kid's stuff. We got a pretty good Kid's Table and Joseph got to pick out 2 toys. He chose a "Piggy Ducky" (yes it is exactly as it sounds) and Tickle me Cookie Monster. This Cookie Monster laughs when you push his tummy, its really cute. Joseph has taken this Cookie Monster with him all over the house for the last few days.

We eat together on our new table

Have to make sure that "Cookie" gets some "Loops"

Cookie never misses Sesame Street (and yes he put Cookie on the chair all my himself)

Sometimes they sit together and watch Sesame Street

He saw the flash from the above picture, and turned around saying "take picture". I asked him if he wanted to smile for the picture, he turned Cookie around and said "cheese!"

Moving... again

We have been searching for a new place to live since last December and we have found it! Our current place has had a complete change in management, drastic rent increases, and increased theft... time to move on. We are moving to the Mansion Apartments in Mt. Prospect. We get an extra 400 sq ft for $200 less a month :-D We are moving to a wonderful ward where there are almost 20 kids within a year of Joseph. We are very excited about this move... if only our things would magically pack and transport themselves lol. We will be moving at the end of June