Kindergarten Cristmas 2008

This is Josh's Kindergarten Christmas party - Russian New Year's Style.

Christmas specials

This is Christmas performance by music industry celebrity to be - Josh M. I.

Ever since watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Josh has been into being a clown... It is from the last scene of the film where they are pretending to be toys. Aivis made him a nose from one of his special treat chocolate eggs with small presents in - Kinder surprises.



He got a bit obssessed with it during the Song and Dance festival procession... We kept him from wearing it most of the time, so in this shot it was in his pocket! But here we see the wonder of watching his first Song and Dance festival!




Then I leave you with two more pictures... This is the result of having a father who photographs you all the time!

Josh has been a bit obsessed recently with the film "Fly away home", a Canadian film about a flock of geese which get left without a mother and a girl 'adopts' them and then flies them to their migration destination using a small kind of plane looking like a goose! Anyway, somewhere in this film there must be a winter scene with them making a snowman because all this week he has been asking if there will be snow. Aivis has been saying ''Yes'', thinking that in winter it will be here, but Josh got convinced that it would be here the next day and he kept getting disappointed.
Today we went to the beach and a solution was found to our dilema...


A group of cyclists went by and one woman commented - oh look, a snowman made of sand! Her cycling companion replied - No, a sand man! So here is our intermediate solution until winter...

Pats / I will do it myself

In order to save big slideshow, i feel like writing some entry, so that side bar could be seen.
So.
Pats (LV) - this is Josh's most used word lately. In English it would be "I'll do it myself" or just 'myself'.
This word he uses: putting butter on a bread; putting trousers, boots on; putting in and taking out DVDs and VHS tapes, opening and closing outside doors (with the key), flushing toilet, switching lights, pouring juice or milk in a cup or bowl...
There is probably more.

Josh's Kindergarten Christmas party

I will soon be going to my first parent's meeting at the kindergarten! How weird is that?! I wonder what will happen there and what they will say. Aivis is thinking that they will ask for some extra money for something. We just have to pay for food for Josh, which is a small amount a month. The government pays for the rest... although I have a feeling they only really cover salaries for the people working at the kindergarten as the facilities look quite sparse... so we will be happy to help. Aivis has told me the piano is out of tune - not that i have heard it myself, but I would be willing to pay for it to be tuned...
Josh is so happy now at kindergarten. He wants to go there everyday and there are now no tears... He even wanted to go this Saturday... we had to say that he had a day off!
He is speaking more and more - not that we can always understand what exactly he is trying to tell us! Whenever he comes home from kindergarten he tried so hard to give us a full description of the day. He seems to be getting on with the other kids quite well. One morning when I took him (when he was still crying each day when we left) one of the older boys emplored him, "Josh - please don't cry!". It seemed to work - not long after that comment, he stopped crying altogether when leaving us in the morning. Some of the girls are always friendly when they see him in the morning - giving him a cheery 'hello Josh!'. So... Josh's world is going well.