2 years!

A wee bit late. Josiah turned 2 last week! We've been so blessed with a laid-back, funny little man. It has been amazing to watch him grow, especially this last year. Wow, the differences between a 1yo and 2yo are drastic!! Ok, newborn-1 is also drastic. But, really. When the talking begins, it just gets funny!

We plan on celebrating in the States with friends and fam, but also wanted to celebrate here.

We started the day with banana chocolate chip muffins. Who doesn't like those?!

Then played, went outside, visited Daddy at school for 5 minutes, then a long nap. I guess he was tired..?! Hard to see, but hand in pants (sick) and the door is wide open...and this was after 2.5 hours already.

Then played some more, ate another muffin, had quesadillas and Ranch (special here) for dinner, and another muffin to blow out his candles.

 

Last weekend, we had a party with our teammates, some friends, and a few students. We even played Hot Potato! haha. Hilarious. Josiah got some interesting gifts, as expected. Everything is "interesting" here for kids. This included graffiti pants that had a huge Chinglish word on the rear (forgot what it was), an all-in-one visor with sunglasses AND a fan, a China spoon and fork set, etc. Perhaps he will get a few normal things when we throw him a bash at home. :)

Speaking of home, we leave in 3.5 weeks. I'm stoked. I'm interested to see how Josiah will react. Probably not well at first. And he will think all our friends and family are strangers. Sad. But, I'm sure he'll warm up. We may have to re-teach some habits he has. For example, when kids see each other on the street, their granny usually wants them to stop and wo wo shou (shake hands). We have taught Josiah this, and he does it every time. Most of the time, the Chinese kids are afraid of him and the grannies begin to (gently) scold them until they shake hands. Haha. I'm sure if he walked up to a kid in the States with his hand extended, he'd get some crazy stares. Shoot, I'm just excited for him to go to a real park. Here, the "parks" consist of several different pieces of exercise equipment. It was funny and a little sad to watch him run from one piece to the next the other day. He had no idea they weren't really for kids! He just watched how the Chinese kids adapted them to make them more fun, and followed right along! What will he do with swings and a slide?! :)