Joaquin is beginning to have ambitions. Like most small children, he's always had goals, especially of the variety designed to annoy a mother. (Usually involving some cheap plastic toy doing something completely outside of it's intended usage and ability.) However, now we have some lifetime goals as well. Here
you can see him creating a 'piping' system out of the gluesticks for my hot glue gun. (We were making our own Nativity scene, more of that in a coming blog.) He was very excited about his pipes and explained to me, ad nauseum, about how they piped in water from far away, etc. He apparently told a friend's mom about his love of pipes and she told him he should be a plumber when he grows up. This has taken hold of his fancy and he now consistently talks about when he grows up and is a plumber. My favorite of these was this, "Mommy, when I grow up and be a plumber, I want a little boy to help me like I help Daddy." So apparently Joaquin wants to be a plumber and a father. :) He's also become aware of how grown-ups can do more things than he can and how you have to learn to do some of those things. So he'll tell you that he'll do
certain things when he's a grown-up. For example: he'll speak Spanish with Daddy when he's a grown-up, he'll drink coffee, etc. We also had a fun conversation with one of Dora's friends over Thanksgiving. She and Joaquin talked about how sometimes you don't like some food, but you may like it later because your tongue can sometimes change. Since it didn't come from me, Joaquin believed her and now talks about how he'll like some vegetable when he's grown-up. These last pictures are Joaquin's little drumset that he made with some of Daddy's
percussion equipment while he was supposedly 'helping' Daddy in the garage. Apparently the design was all Joaquin, Daddy just helped secure items together. I think he was inspired by the church's trap set from the other night.
Joaquin is beginning to have ambitions. Like most small children, he's always had goals, especially of the variety designed to annoy a mother. (Usually involving some cheap plastic toy doing something completely outside of it's intended usage and ability.) However, now we have some lifetime goals as well. Here
you can see him creating a 'piping' system out of the gluesticks for my hot glue gun. (We were making our own Nativity scene, more of that in a coming blog.) He was very excited about his pipes and explained to me, ad nauseum, about how they piped in water from far away, etc. He apparently told a friend's mom about his love of pipes and she told him he should be a plumber when he grows up. This has taken hold of his fancy and he now consistently talks about when he grows up and is a plumber. My favorite of these was this, "Mommy, when I grow up and be a plumber, I want a little boy to help me like I help Daddy." So apparently Joaquin wants to be a plumber and a father. :) He's also become aware of how grown-ups can do more things than he can and how you have to learn to do some of those things. So he'll tell you that he'll do 
certain things when he's a grown-up. For example: he'll speak Spanish with Daddy when he's a grown-up, he'll drink coffee, etc. We also had a fun conversation with one of Dora's friends over Thanksgiving. She and Joaquin talked about how sometimes you don't like some food, but you may like it later because your tongue can sometimes change. Since it didn't come from me, Joaquin believed her and now talks about how he'll like some vegetable when he's grown-up. These last pictures are Joaquin's little drumset that he made with some of Daddy's 
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