{"id":378,"date":"2008-07-17T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=378"},"modified":"2008-07-17T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:44:00","slug":"378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a visit from our good friend Joshua<br \/>\n    today. Lex loves Joshua. Joshua apparently loves Lex too and<br \/>\n    told me many times today that he wishes Lex was his little<br \/>\n    brother, which is cute because just this morning Lex and I were<br \/>\n    talking about why Eve has a big brother but Lex does not.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try\n    {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rYeLAMnI\/AAAAAAAADvg\/zDQOYQoqy0w\/s1600-h\/IMG_2490.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align:\n    center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rYeLAMnI\/AAAAAAAADvg\/zDQOYQoqy0w\/s400\/IMG_2490.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224152898421666418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Anyway, they had a lot of fun. Lex<br \/>\n    was exhausted because he didn&#8217;t nap. He&#8217;s been napping every<br \/>\n    other day or so lately, and despite a long day at the lake<br \/>\n    yesterday he didn&#8217;t nap. I was hoping for a nap today, but he<br \/>\n    was too excited about Joshua&#8217;s visit. All day he kept running<br \/>\n    to the window telling me that Joshua&#8217;s car is here. All day! So<br \/>\n    when Joshua got here, he was raring to go and Lex was<br \/>\n    exhausted. He did his best to keep up though. Joshua always<br \/>\n    brings Lex nice presents (toys he no longer plays with) and<br \/>\n    today he brought a keyboard (musical, not computer) and some<br \/>\n    Froggy books. Lex just wanted to play with the keyboard and<br \/>\n    read the books the whole time :)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e)\n    {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rYhgIwyI\/AAAAAAAADvo\/0r-2CyLeJYg\/s1600-h\/IMG_2494.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align:\n    center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rYhgIwyI\/AAAAAAAADvo\/0r-2CyLeJYg\/s400\/IMG_2494.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224152899315614498\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The big news of the day however, is<br \/>\n    Lex learned (or decided) to drink from a cup! No sippy top<br \/>\n    needed. I bought big, bright-colored, plastic tumblers at the<br \/>\n    grocery store a few weeks ago for my party last week. At the<br \/>\n    store this week we saw kid-sized versions of the same cups. Lex<br \/>\n    loved them (me too!) so we bought a few. Today when Joshua<br \/>\n    asked for a drink I pulled these out (he is 7 and doesn&#8217;t need<br \/>\n    sippy tops!). Lex wanted one too. I put a little milk in his<br \/>\n    and explained that these cups don&#8217;t have sippy tops, so he just<br \/>\n    started drinking. He&#8217;s not the cleanest and I had to remind him<br \/>\n    to close his mouth so the milk doesn&#8217;t dribble out, but he did<br \/>\n    it. Then he asked for more. It got a little messy when Joshua<br \/>\n    got silly and Lex cracked up, spitting milk everywhere :)<br \/>\n    Later, for dinner, I gave him the same cup with more milk<br \/>\n    (Joshua was gone now) and Lex drank up. Yay Lex!! We&#8217;ll see if<br \/>\n    he repeats this new skill tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try\n    {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rY2oKheI\/AAAAAAAADvw\/e_P7FucSjdE\/s1600-h\/IMG_2497.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align:\n    center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SH_rY2oKheI\/AAAAAAAADvw\/e_P7FucSjdE\/s400\/IMG_2497.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224152904986428898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a visit from our good friend Joshua today. Lex loves Joshua. 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