We had a visit from our good friend Joshua
today. Lex loves Joshua. Joshua apparently loves Lex too and
told me many times today that he wishes Lex was his little
brother, which is cute because just this morning Lex and I were
talking about why Eve has a big brother but Lex does not.

Anyway, they had a lot of fun. Lex
was exhausted because he didn’t nap. He’s been napping every
other day or so lately, and despite a long day at the lake
yesterday he didn’t nap. I was hoping for a nap today, but he
was too excited about Joshua’s visit. All day he kept running
to the window telling me that Joshua’s car is here. All day! So
when Joshua got here, he was raring to go and Lex was
exhausted. He did his best to keep up though. Joshua always
brings Lex nice presents (toys he no longer plays with) and
today he brought a keyboard (musical, not computer) and some
Froggy books. Lex just wanted to play with the keyboard and
read the books the whole time :)

The big news of the day however, is
Lex learned (or decided) to drink from a cup! No sippy top
needed. I bought big, bright-colored, plastic tumblers at the
grocery store a few weeks ago for my party last week. At the
store this week we saw kid-sized versions of the same cups. Lex
loved them (me too!) so we bought a few. Today when Joshua
asked for a drink I pulled these out (he is 7 and doesn’t need
sippy tops!). Lex wanted one too. I put a little milk in his
and explained that these cups don’t have sippy tops, so he just
started drinking. He’s not the cleanest and I had to remind him
to close his mouth so the milk doesn’t dribble out, but he did
it. Then he asked for more. It got a little messy when Joshua
got silly and Lex cracked up, spitting milk everywhere :)
Later, for dinner, I gave him the same cup with more milk
(Joshua was gone now) and Lex drank up. Yay Lex!! We’ll see if
he repeats this new skill tomorrow.