Well, now I have one little brother at boot camp and one headed to sea for the next six months!
Jacob has joined the Marines and has been in basic training for the past few weeks. He will graduate January 4th and I am sure that cannot come soon enough for him!
Yesterday, Joshua, who is a lieutenant and the operations officer on the USS Germantown, got underway for a six-month ship tour. You can guess where he is headed! There was a great post on Josh and Tina's (and Otto's) blog about his departure (see our links for their blog!!). Justin read the blog post to the boys and me over breakfast this morning.
The boys are pretty interested in what their "soldier" uncles (sorry Jeremiah, Quinton, Adam, Jordan and John!) are up to. They regularly ask us if Uncle Josh has ever had to kill a bad guy. Sunday night we called him to say good-bye and they got to ask him for themselves. Uncle Josh told them that he had never had to kill anyone.
This morning, after hearing about Uncle Josh's ship setting off, the boys retreated to the basement and into the land of make-believe. Justin and I heard them talking and playing. Turns out Elias was pretending to be Uncle Josh and Asher was pretending to be Aunt Tina! Asher had this green fisherman-type hat on. ??
I told Asher that he could pretend to be Uncle Jacob, because he was a soldier too. He asked me if Uncle Jake was on a ship, to which Justin (seeing that being on the ship was part of the highlight of this play) replied, "Marines frequently have to be on ships. Uncle Josh's ship carries marines."
At this time we hear Elias yell from the basement, "I tried to tell him that but he wouldn't listen. He still wants to be Aunt Tina!"
Then Asher says with his special little smile--you know the one, "No, I am going to be Aunt Tina." And then he was off again!
God bless you Uncle Josh, wherever you are this night. Our prayers are with you!
Jodi
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Well, this all makes complete sense to me, Asher.
After all, Aunt Tina was once on a ship that carried Marines, just like Uncle Josh is now, so I can see the appeal of being her. And she does have a couple of green hats, although I cannot be sure they are green fisherman-type hats. And Uncle Jake can get into the action too, once he is through boot camp, because, as Justin so accurately pointed out, Marines frequently have to be on ships. So if the boys are into realistic role-playing, they have plenty of family members to emulate, and I am proud that Asher chose me!
Tina
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