Train of thought

Joseph is saying 2-3 word phrases/sentences now so I wanted to document some of them because they are just too cute.  I just love watching and listening to his train of thought when he says things.  When he repeats things they are always in the same order which just makes us laugh.

We have found that timeouts aren't super effective with Joseph recently but he does respond very well to how we are "feeling".  He is definitely an empathetic little guy.  He will often ask throughout the day: "Mama happy?" "Mama sad?" And if when he does something he isn't supposed to it seems to work better if we say "That makes mama/daddy sad" because then he'll usually say, "Mama sad, no Mama happy" then he'll say "hug" and come give us a hug and a kiss...it doesn't always work but definitely have seen better results with this then just telling him "no."

When we are outside and he sees a runner he always says, "Run fast" followed by "Run shoes" and then normally "Daddy run fast"

Same thing goes for when we see bike riders-he always says: "Ride bicycles" and then followed by "helmet"

I have two friends that have had babies within the past month and he has been talking incessantly about one of them and the conversation goes like this:  "Baby Tucker" "Kiss his feet" "hit babies" "mama sad" "mama Happy"  "hug"" kiss"(not sure where the "hit babies" came from but he has been saying it for about the past two weeks-thankfully he is very sweet when he is around babies but it is a little embarrassing hearing him say it)

Whenever he eats yogurt he always says "mess"

Everytime we drive by the fire station he begins by saying "fire station" and then "fire truck" and then will say yell "garage" and then either "inside" or "outside" depending on where the firetruck is located at that time

And finally, a few weeks ago at the church nursery two of the ladies that watch the kids were playing high five with Joseph (high five, to the side, down low, too slow) and he LOVED it!  The ladies were telling us how he had his big belly laugh going on and was just cracking up the whole time.  Well since then he says many times throughout the days, "High five ladies" which I just think is so cute.  All he wants to do is play high five but associates it with the ladies at the church!

And just some fun pictures from the last week...a blog post isn't complete without pictures!
Playing in a friend's backyard-notice he isn't wearing shoes-I threw those socks out when we got home!

 It was his buddy's 2nd birthday and the party had a pinata so all the kids got a turn!  So fun!

 Stretching with Daddy before a run.

 Loves his bicycle and he is finally big enough to reach the pedals and go on his own!

 "I'm mess" he kept saying after doing some fingerpainting-straight to the tub we went!

 One day after boot camp there were firefighters doing a practice exercise on the lake so all of the tkids were loving watching them and were even given hats!

Lastly, just a cute shot of him walking over to the park one evening.