Rocket Man

After turning the big "3", Joel suddenly became very interested in space and astronauts. He is starting to have the best imagination and often pretends that he's driving a spaceship, is on a different planet ("Planet 13") or is being attacked by aliens. He asked me just the other day, "Mommy, do you think I'm brave enough to be an astronaut?" How adorable is that? What do you think? Rocket man?

Joel is also very into making up words and then sticking with them for awhile, which Jack and I find quite entertaining. For instance, one of his latest words is "Peeaysay," which means (according to Joel), "a monster with a brown head, yellow gloves and a yellow tummy." "Mommy, the Peeyasays are coming!" he'll shout! Hilarious! What a kid!