Saturday morning I took Joshua (and Sophie got to tag along) to the city of Kettering's "Touch a Truck" day. It was at the middle school parking lot and there were tons of fire trucks, tow trucks, cement mixers, etc. The kids were allowed to get inside the trucks and climb around, there were firemen there - it was really neat! Joshua's friends Conner and Sean were going to attend as well. So I thought Joshua would really love it. But...I...was...WRONG. You see, in addition to climbing in the trucks, the kids were also allowed to honk the horns. So from the minute we got there, there were loud fire truck horns going off about every 20 seconds. Joshua totally freaked out! He is a but timid (some might say wimpy! I hope this doesn't send him to therapy one day!) He was crying and flipping out so much he made Conner cry too. So we stayed all of five minutes. We totally missed Sean because he hadn't even gotten there yet. So, we skee-daddled over to Tim Horton's so I could make it up to Joshua a donut. Megan and Conner joined us and that's what the above photos are of. I've also included a photo of Joshua holding his little sis. He is such a good brother!
Yesterday was "Youth Sunday" at our church and since Bobby is the youth leader, he was running the show. And he did a great job of course! He organized the worship, played bass and gave the message, talking about what we've been doing with the youth and where we want to go from here. I was very proud of him, since he doesn't exactly LOVE public speaking! All the kids did a great job too. Our friend Daniel wrote a video for them which we filmed a couple Wednesdays ago and it was hilarious! The whole church seemed to really enjoy it.
Today Joshua and I are going to start his reading lessons. We'll see what happens! He is also looking forward to one last visit from the Dudes before they leave for Virginia tomorrow. They'll be here soon so I'll finish up for now.
3 comments:
Poor little guy. I don't blame him for crying. Who wants to be around loud honking and sirens all day long?
Now that you mention it, I don't know how much more of that honking I could've stood either!
Joshua's namesake and Great Grandfather Kenneth Williams Linsley had very sensitive ears. He could not stand much in the way of "noise pollution" at all and often secretly wore the earplugs molded for his ears in WW II for flightline noise at parades, etc. He could still hear and enjoy, but now get "blown away." This could be an inherited trait. I have those ear plugs...perhaps Joshua Kenneth should inherit them...Love, Hopie
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