Overdue Update on the Family

I keep starting posts but never finishing them. And when I start again, I forgot all the new things I was going to type. The boys keep us busy, in a great way. We just found out we'll be leaving VA this summer to go back to Camp Lejeune. We're glad it's NC and not CA.

Tanner's current loves are Elmo, Curious George, frogs and dogs. He usually loves music and dancing, but has lately stopped doing that as much. He will sometimes sing. He just recently went from saying Da-Da to Daddy (which sounds exactly like "paci" so that makes for an interesting day). He's so social. He waves and wants to talk to everybody in the store. He introduces his Daddy and Mommy and JoJo.

He's so good at copying and repeating things. He sometimes mimics every movement Joey makes while they're playing. And Joey loves it. He loves being able to make Tanner do what he wants. They still play together very well. At lot of bickering about who gets to play with the toys because they both don't want anything until the see the other having fun with it.

Joey is slowly coming out of his dinosaur obession. He doesn't play with the Zhu Zhu pets like he used to, either. His new thing is Legos. He loves that they come with kits and instructions. He puts them together with his daddy. It's their thing to do together. His favorite are the Ninjago Legos. He's still into Backyard Safari missions and patches, but his current ones are outdoor stuff and it's been too cold for that, so that's on hold for now.

Joey just earned his Cubs blue belt in TaeKwonDo. There is another Tiger Rock TaeKwonDo facility in Jacksonville where we're moving this summer, so if he wants to keep it up, it's available. He's currently 43 3/4 inches tall, and 37 1/2 lbs. He still isn't a good eater, at all. He's so picky. He goes through phases. For a while, all he would eat were Chicken Nuggests. Then it was cereal. Then sandwiches, and now it's hot dogs. And lately he likes to be called Josiah by new people. If they ask his name at a doctor's office or store, or at church, he says Josiah instead of Joey. He goes back and forth using Josiah or Joey at school on his work, too.

In the picture above, Joey had scratched his leg on the stairs and was upset that I didn't have a band-aid. Tanner was kissing him to make him feel better. So sweet.

Tanner's been sick recently, so he hasn't had much of an appetite either, but his favorite go-to food in the pantry is pop tarts. He'll snack on them all day. I really need to find a recipe to make homemade ones because they're so expensive.