Many conversations have been focused on the difference between things made by God and things made by humans. It is so cute to hear Joshua start explaining to me, in the wisdome of a three-year mind, that God made all the trees, and all the birds and all the swimming pools. I explain to him yes, God did make all the trees and birds but the swimming pools are made by people, by men and women - but that God made all the water that we use to fill the swimming pools (naturally I leave out the part about all the chemicals that are added....this will be for later conversations when he is a bit older.....) and that God made all the lakes and the rivers and oceans. Joshua continues..."and God made all the people and mama and papa and all the doggies and all the signs..." I stop him to explain about the signs and then it continues from there. It is so sweet to see how Joshua is trying to organize things in to these two concepts of man-made and God-made. He is really getting the hang of it and he loves this conversation topic very much.
The other big hot topic lately is the construction site next door to us (yet another one!!!!) The old post office is being torn down and we have watched the whole process. There were these big crane wreckers that definitely look like Tyranosaurus Rex was the model used - the powerful cranes are literally biting huges chunks of walles away, steel concrete and all. It is very fascinating to anyone but especially to a certain little 3-year old. We visit nearly daily to watch the progress. At home we have been playing construction site with his duplo set. He got a crane truck and a dump truck for his birthday. We take the duplos and build a half torn down building. The crane truck then has to finish wrecking it and the dump truck carries away the pieces and dumps them in to the various containers for recycling - all by colour of course. This is big fun. The other thing Joshua has fixated on is the pair of tongs he apropriated from the kitchen and claimed for his own. He takes these and says it is the wrecker and uses the tongs to take all the pillows off the sofa and tells me it is the old post and he is building a new building. The tongs are doing a lot of work. He carries these around from morning until night using every opportunity to move things with the tongs. One night he even wanted to sleep with them. I didn't allow it - as I just felt strange about letting him sleep with such a hard object (that can't be good can it?) So we made a separate bed for the tongs. This must be somehwat inspired by the book we read every night since his birthday. He got this from Grandma Cindy and it called Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. It is an adorable book about how all the various trucks at a the construction site go to sleep one by one.
Joshua has most of the book memorized and quotes it throughout the day.
Zwei Dinge sollten Kinder von ihren Eltern bekommen: Wurzeln und Flügel... There are two things children need from their parents: roots and wings.... (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Sonntag, 21. April 2013
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Happy 3rd Birthday!
My dear darling Joshua,
Today, on this Easter Sunday, you turned 3 years old! I can't believe how fast you have "grown up". You still have so much growing to do - but - you are already so big, so able and so smart and so clever. You are my favorite person in the whole world. I really have so much love for you. And we make each other laugh. I think we have lots of fun together in general. However, there are those moments where you and I just do something so silly and give each other that look. Then we bust out laughing and can't stop. It is such a beautiful moment when it happens. It feels like eternity and you laugh with such purity and we are so open to one another, so close, so together! I want to hold on to those moments with a certain tenacity, but it is like trying to hold tight to a handful of sand. Those moments slip away in to the future - in to future moments.
More later.....
Your mama
Today, on this Easter Sunday, you turned 3 years old! I can't believe how fast you have "grown up". You still have so much growing to do - but - you are already so big, so able and so smart and so clever. You are my favorite person in the whole world. I really have so much love for you. And we make each other laugh. I think we have lots of fun together in general. However, there are those moments where you and I just do something so silly and give each other that look. Then we bust out laughing and can't stop. It is such a beautiful moment when it happens. It feels like eternity and you laugh with such purity and we are so open to one another, so close, so together! I want to hold on to those moments with a certain tenacity, but it is like trying to hold tight to a handful of sand. Those moments slip away in to the future - in to future moments.
More later.....
Your mama
Terrible Twos - AAAaaahhhhhh!!!!
Dear Josh,
There are so many very cute and wonderful things about you. Things that make my heart leap and melt all at the same time. This is a very good thing and assures your survival in those too frequent moments lately in which test my nerves and bring me to the brink of madness. You are in the thick of the terrible twos. It is a very natural process and everyone keeps assuring me it is normal and healthy. It is necessary that you discover your independence. Now that you have discovered you are your own person.
We are in the midst of getting ready for Christmas - Steam train.
Rabbit died, up in heaven with God. Mama where is the bunny? I want my bunny back!
Meins! Everything is yours. One time you said " Mama EVERYTHING is meins"
Things I want to remember: telling the time, mama the big hand? not wanting to sleep
throwing things,time outs, refusing to budge, lying, negotiating; Language mixes: Mama was ist hier on the table passiert?
Reading letters at 2 1/2 you already know a good handful of letters. A, B, C, M, N, F, E. You know all of your numbers - recognize and name.
There are so many very cute and wonderful things about you. Things that make my heart leap and melt all at the same time. This is a very good thing and assures your survival in those too frequent moments lately in which test my nerves and bring me to the brink of madness. You are in the thick of the terrible twos. It is a very natural process and everyone keeps assuring me it is normal and healthy. It is necessary that you discover your independence. Now that you have discovered you are your own person.
We are in the midst of getting ready for Christmas - Steam train.
Rabbit died, up in heaven with God. Mama where is the bunny? I want my bunny back!
Meins! Everything is yours. One time you said " Mama EVERYTHING is meins"
Things I want to remember: telling the time, mama the big hand? not wanting to sleep
throwing things,time outs, refusing to budge, lying, negotiating; Language mixes: Mama was ist hier on the table passiert?
Reading letters at 2 1/2 you already know a good handful of letters. A, B, C, M, N, F, E. You know all of your numbers - recognize and name.
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