Better late than never??

I've been pretty pathetic at keeping up with blogging lately, I apologize to my scores of followers (all 3 of you:-)).  Here is a long overdue post from when Josiah and I joined Robin, Miles, Henry and my mom on a road trip to the cities to see the one and only RACHEL COLEMAN of Signing Time fame.  You have probably heard me talk about this wonderful set of DVDs that teach little ones sign language, our whole family is enamored with them!  Not only are they cute and have lots of fun songs and graphics, they truly work!  Not just to teach signs but they encourage language skills in general.  Anyone who has spent 5 minutes with Josiah (or watched one of his videos) knows that this boy is certainly not lacking in the talk department and I credit Rachel with some that! We had VIP tickets (a BIG thank you to auntie Robin for our tickets that were an early birthday gift for Josiah) so that meant we got to meet Rachel, Leah and Hopkins before the show.  The boys were SO excited...Josiah kept saying "Dat Rachel mommy, dat Rachel wight der!"  Priceless.  While he really likes Rachel, Leah and Alex, his favorite "person" on the DVDs is Hopkins.  I was curious as to how he'd react to a life sized Hopkins because on TV, Hopkins is a small animated frog but in real life he was adult sized.  Surprisingly, Josiah wasn't afraid, he just stared at him and then started doing the 'Pokins top' which means the 'Hopkin's Hop':-)  The poor lady in the Hopkins suit seemed less than enthusiastic to perform the Hop but begrudgingly did so after Josiah asked nicely:-) Again, priceless.  It was a fun time had by all, here are some shots from the evening:

Rachel signed his VIP badge...can you say scrapbook worthy??

Not too sure about being SO up close and personal

Loving Hopkins!

I love this one...Nana and I are smiling straight at the camera while all 3 boys
seem to be looking around for the nearest escape route:-)