Celebrating Grandma B's, Jennifer's, & Dad's Birthdays!!

Aunt Jennifer, Great Grandma Evelyn & Joshua having some fun before dinner

Everyone enjoying Joshua during dinner

Mom, Jennifer & Grandma B

Do you see Jim smiling in the mirror?

Bruce (57), Grandma (75) & Jennifer (34)

Someone else was holding Joshua. All she had to hold was green bear. Poor Grandma Dana!

4 Generations

4 Generations

4 Generations

"Well, Mom... Let me think about it"

Aunt Jennifer Rocks!

Love this picture! Ride 'em little cowboy!

Play time

Indiana Flower & Patio Show

Today I dropped Joshua off with LuAnn (Grandma Lu) while mom was at school. After school Joshua and Grandma Dana played all afternoon!

I picked up Grandma Barbara and we went to IHOP for breakfast. At this point, she only knew about breakfast and had no idea what we were doing for the day. All I had told her is that she should plan on being away from the house all day and to wear comfy shoes. :)  At some point during breakfast I did tell her that we were headed to Indianapolis for the Indiana Flower & Patio Show. She was so excited! Here are pictures from the show. (yes, there are a lot but they are of flowers!!)

 

It was a really fun day ~ mostly because I got to spend the whole day with my Grandma!!

(The show was nice, but that can't compare to Grandma time!)

St. Patrick's Day!

 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I've been told that he's going to hate these pictures when he gets older, but I say what child doesn't dislike pictures their parents have, right? Besides, Grandma Dana got him the outfit!

Visiting Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Pershing

Tuesday Joshua and I picked up Jim and had lunch at Jake's on campus. It's spring break so it wasn't crowded. Then Joshua and I went to visit Grandpa Bruce in his office. Joshua slept the whole time, but that didn't make any difference to Grandpa Bruce. Next Joshua and I went to Great Grandma & Great Grandpa Pershing's house for a visit.

 

Great Grandpa & Joshua haning out. Grandpa asked Joshua if he wanted to drive his tractor ~ JCS just smiled. :)

Great Grandma giving Joshua his bottle. He's a Pershing when it comes time to eat!!

Sitting up like a big boy!

We had a really nice visit with Grandma & Grandpa. It's fun to see him interact with different people. Joshua really studies Grandpa Wilbur. I think he can see an older version of Grandpa Bruce when he looks at Great Grandpa Wilbur!

3 months old!

Joshua is 3 months old! It's been the fastest, slowest, craziest 3 months of our lives!! We are so blessed to have this amazing little boy! Every morning when I go to get him out of his crib and he looks up at me and smiles, I think how did we get so lucky get to have this special little boy.

Everyday he amazes me with something new he's doing or trying to do. He's started reaching and holding on to things. It's so fun to watch him concentrate then reach for something and get it! This isn't a great picture, but was taken in a moving car. (I wasn't driving!)

Joshua has started to really watch Duke when we are eating dinner. In his little chair, they are just about the same level. One of these days his going to get Duke when he reaches for him. Watch out Duke!!

We went for our first walk this week. It was a great evening to get out and Joshua did great in his first stroller ride.

Joshua hanging out with Simpson ~ the biggest bear in the shop.

Today we took Joshua to have 3 month pictures taken. I told the photographer that I wanted to try to get my necklace (a gift I got after JCS was born) in one of the pictures. Her idea was to have his hand next to the necklace. Later this afternoon Joshua was asleep on me, so I thought I'd try to take a picture with my phone. This is what I got. I'm sure the professional picture will be better, but I love it! (This picture is now the background on my phone!)

Overall, Joshua is doing great. He's happy & healthy. He's been sleeping through the night (6-7 hours normally) since Feb. 14th. He slept 11.5 hours one night!! Joshua is doing great at work. He tends to sleep on the job, but that's okay. :)

On to month 4...

Squealing

Picture blog

We (my family) are all trying to get back to a normal routine. We all went to work everyday this week which was a big accomplishment. (It had been 3 weeks since that happened with valentine's day, Uncle Gary's funeral & Grandpa's funeral) It's amazing how thankful we all were just to go to work! Really puts things in perspective I guess!

So I titled this “picture blog” and all you’ve seen in my ramblings… here’s the pictures!

Just found this.  It's from Christmas. Love this picture!

Puppy Bottom!

Grandma Dana & Joshua

Look at this big boy sitting on mommy's front counter! Happy boy!

Joshua in daddy's Ft. Wayne Wizard's hat

Green Bear ~ Soft & fun to hug!

Grandpa, can I borrow your pen?

This is for you Uncle Tom!

We are still working on "enjoying" bath time. I would say bath time is now "tolerated".

"I've got an idea!"

Tummy time!

Generally, Joshua really listens (looks at you) when you read to him. This night he might have been more interested in seeing if he could get his whole fist in his mouth.

Daddy and his boys

So that's a few of the pictures I found on my phone...trust me there are lots more.