After putting Josh to bed today he woke up balling. This is very irregular for him so I immediately popped out of bed and rushed into the darkness of his room. He was standing there arms out waiting for someone to grab him. Josh had been under the weather for the last couple days, so it wasn't a complete surprise that he woke up. But I think he was mostly having a nightmare versus sick because I just sat with him in his chair rubbing his back and he fell back to sleep within about five minutes or so. But I loved this moment of comforting him and him snuggling up in my arms that I sat there for another forty minutes or so stroking his back as he slept. Didn't matter that it was three in the morning, I just wanted to be with him since Mom gets to do all the comforting the other parts of the day.

Josh, Mom and I made one of our common trips to the mall where we just walked around and let Josh wander and play. We usually make a lap or two at the Apache Mall (making Josh say hi to everyone to cheer them up), then stop at the little play area where they have those stupid kid rides where a car just moves back and forth or something. Josh loves them of course, even without paying for them. Wonder how long that will last?! Anyway, after that we concluded with some time at Barnes and Noble (as usual) to let him play with their Thomas the Train set. He was playing there with another little boy whose Mom was sitting right there too, watching them. All of a sudden, Josh lets a huge fart rip. He was in full concentration during the fart, then soon as it was over, he looked up at everyone around and started dying laughing. He is such a little clown. Josh is always making everyone, especially Mom and I, laugh.