Mini Vacation, Babymoon, or Whatever You want to call it

We decided we would take a little hiatus from our day to day norm and get away before Joshua starts school and we start our foster to adopt journey. We went to Kemah and the Houston Space Center. We had a lot of fun! I put the pictures pretty much in order of how it happened over the weekend. We first started out going to a place called Jumpoline! I have mentioned it before in a previous blog. We were waiting for daddy to get off work and getting some energy out before we got in the car and drove for 3 hours. On Saturday we went to Kemah Boardwalk and spent all day there. We met my sister and niece that evening for dinner and some splash pad fun! We ate at a really cool place called The Aquarium. The kids loved looking at all the fish in the tanks. We also got to feed the fish that were in the water once we were outside on the boardwalk. Sunday we went and ate a place called Kelleys for brunch before we went to The Houston Space Center. Kelleys has the best eggs Benedict! Yummy! The space center was fun, but a little to over Joshua's head. He loved looking at the space shuttle and playing inside the playscape, but he didn't really care about the learning aspect of it. We will give it a go in another couple of years! Before we headed home on Sunday we stopped and fed the ducks at a pond near by. Those ducks were not afraid to get close as you will see in the pictures. Oh and my son is not scared when it comes to carnival rides. He wanted to do every ride, but he couldn't do most because he wasn't tall enough. He did ask to do the ferris wheel and loved every minute of it! So, here are the tons of pictures that I posted. Enjoy!























































































































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Musical Beds

This is where Joshua starts out sleeping. Nice and comfy in his bed....


And this is where Joshua ends up sleeping, here on our bedroom floor. Nice and cozy, don't you think? :). Joshua comes into our bedroom almost every night so we decided after having to fight for our right to sleep comfortable in our own bed, to make him his very own spot on the floor. He actually loves it and even sleeps late. Works for me!!


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Joshua Sees The Dentist

Joshua took his very first trip to the dentist today! He was excited to go until I made the mistake of saying doctor and that was all it took. He went from happy to freaked out! He was fine in the waiting room, but once we went back to one of the rooms he went into total meltdown mode! Poor guy, I did feel bad for him, because even though we talked about what would happen at the dentist it still didn't help once they put the film strips in his mouth and put a weird looking camera up to his cheek! The staff was very nice and sensitive to Joshua and his feelings. I personally think he stepped it up a little but I know it was still traumatizing. He made it through the x-rays and right when I had him calmed down, they had to redo one of the x-rays. Ugh! Needless to say meltdown number 2 came on fast! He refused to sit in the chair when the dentist was trying to look at his teeth, so he had to sit in my lap and lay his head in the dentist lap so she could look at his teeth(meltdown number 3)! She actually cleaned his teeth and put some kind of liquid vitamin on them. I am happy to report that in the end the dentist said he had great teeth and gums and for us to keep up the good work. He left with a balloon in one hand and a goodie bag in the other hand sans smile. Oh well, you never know what you are going to get with Joshua. I wonder what's in store for our trip to the pediatrician next week! Yikes!

All he did here was sit down!








Taking the x-rays


He would not let go of my hand!








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Still Trying

Joshua is still learning how to dress himself unassisted. Every Thursday at school is "splash day", so they change clothes when they are done. Each kid is in charge of getting themselves dressed. The past 2 Thursdays when I came to pick him up his shirt and pants were on backwards. His teacher said she didn't want to discourage him from getting dressed so she left it like that. Lol. Funny thing about this is that even though the shirt and shorts were backwards his shoes were actually on the right feet and his underwear was correct as well. Funny! He is definitely getting the hang of dressing himself, which I am thankful for, so we will take it one step at a time...we will work on wearing the clothes the correct way soon, for now this works for me! Lol

The sharks should be in front and you can see the pockets on the shorts, those should be in front.


The shoes are in the right feet though. Baby steps!


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The Fourth of July

Our 4th of July was pretty low key. We hung around the house and grilled and then later that evening we met my brother and sister n law at a local park to watch some fireworks. The park had a bunch of booths and rides for the kids as well. We left a little early because the fireworks were hurting Joshua's ears, but he did really well. Once we were in the car he was able to enjoy them a little more. It was a pretty good day!


























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