The New Man in My Life: How I love you

Obviously, I am going through some rough time leading up to Josiah starting school. Somehow it feels as though I will be losing him to the rest of the world now. He has always been my little baby and then my little boy and now he is going to be someone else's friend. He's going to have to listen to someone else aside from Shaun and I. At times like this, I really wish that I have the guts to say yes to homeschooling. Unfortunately, with my lack of discipline and organisation skills - I fear I may do more harm than good going down this path. Anyhow, back to me being soppy about him growing up - just wanted to post his latest quirks and sayings that makes it that much harder to let go.

I love it when he wakes up from his nap and is always in a bad mood, all teary, upset and wants to cuddle with me for a little while before he pushes me away :p In those special 20 minutes or so, I get to smell his hair, kiss him, hug him and rub his little tummy with no complaints from him. It is as if he is happy to be my baby for a little while. It makes me so warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.

I love the way the hates the way I dry his hair after a wash. He is extremely concerned about not having "spiky hair" and will pat his hair down angrily. So cute and so Josiah!

I love the way he checks himself out at any mirror or reflecting surface - he is so vain. I have caught him checking himself out at the oven door, the shiny door knob in my toilet and have even caught him checking himself using a sunglasses on the dining table to check if his mouth is dirty. So cute, so OCD and so Josiah!

I love the way he shudders when his fingers touches any squishy stuff like cream, chocolate sauce, sauces....
He has come a long way from those infant days when he cannot touch even grass or sand but I guess his little OCD about things touching his fingers have not gone completely. So cute and so my Josiah!

I love the way he looks at me after he has done a poo and asks me if I am happy....my heart melts....I must have been quite the nagger back in those potty training days.

I love the way he gives me the cheeky grin - to try to evade a punishment, to make me laugh or just to make me heart him more.....you choose, because I fall for it every time.

I love our little ice cream game he plays with me whilst I am cooking in the kitchen. Josiah would climb into my laundry basket and pretend to be the ice cream seller. I love ice cream and I love Josiah :p

I love it when he says things like,
"You have milk here" whilst pointing to my breast. When I explained that there is only milk in the breast when I have another baby, he replied, " That's okay Mummy, we can buy one tomorrow" leading to a discussion on how babies have to grow in the tummy and he quickly said that I have a big tummy, leading me to tell him that his Mummy is just fat. Classic Josiah.

"You come and play with me?" he uses both thumbs to point at himself whilst giving you the cheeky grin. Heart. heart. heart

"Mummy, you are just like Katy" - from his favourite children's cooking programme, "I Can Cook" on Cbeebies whenever he sees me in the kitchen.

"Can you open the banana skin for me?"

"I want some wallaa (water) please?"

I could go on but am guessing that most would have had too much of sweetness from this post for a sugar high. So better just stop and let the pics speak for themselves.