Here's Joshua and Sydney, another one of his good friends. Her mom, Crystal, and I like to scrapbook together while the kids play. Sydney's a little older than Joshua but he doesn't care! He loves to hang out with other kids. :) They were wearing friendship bracelets when I took this photo. Too cute!

Still tons of snow around here and much too cold to do much outdoors!! Here's Joshua doing one of his favorite things...looking at our photo albums! He loves to look at them. He points to the pictures and even notices some of my fun embellishments (he pointed to some balloons and said, "baloo.") :) .

Jack came over for a couple of hours last night to play. The boys had a blast together!!

Who goes out for ice cream when it's freezing and snowy outside? We do!! :) Sounded good and we'd been stuck inside so we made a trip to go out for ice cream. Needless to say, we were the only ones in there for a while!

Snow

This was from a few days ago (maybe a week!!), but I'm just getting around to it. Joshua got all decked out in his snow gear but was afraid to move in the snow!! He liked it much better near the garage entrance where he could stay in the dry garage and just barely step in the snow. I think it was just too deep for him to move very well otherwise. He likes to pick it up and try to throw the snow.

Ball Heaven

Grant sent this very cool ball bin to Joshua for Christmas. Joshua was in ball heaven!!! He absolutely LOVES this toy. Thanks Grant!! (And thank your parents for us, too! ;) )

What a fun few days! We had Jeremy's family out here for the holiday. Joshua had a great time with them and all of the rest of the family, too. Here are a couple of photos- his grandmas taught him how to toast!

Grant's Card

Joshua received a card from Grant today. It was a decorate your own card type thing. He was very thorough and worked hard on it. Here are the photos-so cute! Oh, and in case you are wondering about that band-aid on his wrist-He had to have these Dora band-aids! Now, whenever he notices the box in the cupboard, he wants to wear one. He's so silly.

Gingerbread houses

We had a few friends over to decorate gingerbread houses. The kids ate way more of the goodies than they used to decorate the houses! Joshua loved the frosting and goodies. He could hardly keep himself from tearing into the house itself. (I finally let him.)

Practicing

I had Joshua stand by the tree to "practice" taking his Christmas picture. Of course, he wanted to show off his huge cheesy smile. He does three faces on command-a cheesy smile, a surprised face and a pouty face. He cracks me up!!!