Love him so much!

I just love my little guy.  He is such a joy.  It makes me smile so much to see all the things that he is learning and taking in.  He understands soooo much, it's amazing.   Here are just a few recent things:

• Grammy says: "Josiah, go get me some books and I'll read to you." So Josiah walks across the room, goes straight to the drawer with his books and pulls out two and takes them back to Grammy.
• This morning, she handed him two of his sippy cups to play with and he immediately walked right over to the refrigerator and held them up to the water dispenser.  We've never really shown him that, but he knew what was supposed to go in those cups!
• He was walking around a kids store today and had grabbed a teddy bear off the shelf, and when Daddy told him to go put it back on the shelf, he did exactly what he was told.
• Then later, he picked up some trash off the ground at church and Daddy said "go put it in the trash can" and sure enough, he knew exactly what to do and did it.

It may sound simple... but it's amazing to us to see how much he picks up and how much he understands!   And then some of it just plain adorable, like: 

• I love how most of the time he likes the independence of walking around and exploring... but when he's somewhere new and I put him down to walk, he looks up at me and puts his hand up to hold my hand so I'll go with him.  ;)  So cute.
• And when we say "Let's pray" before we eat, he reaches out one hand to me and one hand to daddy so we can all hold hands while we pray.  :)
• Josiah's room at Grammy & Gramps' house is in the pool table room with all the old records and 70's memorabilia.  A few days ago, when I went in to get him out of his crib after he woke up from a nap, he was pointing like crazy at something across the room.  So I picked him up and carried him around to see if I could figure it out.  I quickly realized that he had discovered the figurine set of The Beatles that sits on the media cabinet.  It's these like 9 inch tall replicas of the band.  And ever since, as soon as he wakes up after every nap, he wants to go over and say "good morning" to John, Paul, George and Ringo!  hahahaha!  Maybe he'll be a Beatles fan! 

The list could go on and on, but I just wanted to write out these few things on here so I won't forget.  It's like my online baby book.  :)