Daddy "dia-yah" to the rescue...also entitled, Josiah is a rockstar!

Part of our February was very out of the ordinary. My dear cousin, Bonnie, contracted a rare, autoimmune disorder that affects the nervous syndrome, called Guillain-Barre' syndrome. Bonnie is young (mid 30s) and has two young boys: Knox (age 4) and Jax (age 2). In short, because of the GBS, she went from hiking with her husband and boys in Palo Duro canyon on Sunday evening to paralyzed and unable to walk on Tuesday to having to be on a ventilator to aid with breathing and having a collapsed lung by the weekend. So scary! Needless, to say, we wanted to do anything we could to help. But they are in Amarillo and we are in Castroville. What to do????

Well, thanks to Bonnie's husband (Jon)'s frequent flier miles, we hopped on a plane early Tuesday morning and flew to Amarillo with our main goal to be to watch Knox and Jax so Jon could spend as much time as possible with Bonnie at the hospital. My aunt, Cathy, was in town also, but she wanted to spend as much time at the hospital as she could as well. 

Here's the sun coming up over the wing of our airplane. THAT'S early people!

 Even though it was early, my rockstar was cheerful. He was truly excited to be on a plane and ready to help out with the boys.

Knox remembers Josiah from a couple of visits together, but I'm not sure Jax did. It didn't take long though for Josiah to become a hit around the house! Jax called him "daddy" for days (because he calls all men daddy, just easier that way to the two year old mind, I guess!). The day before we arrived he FINALLY picked up on what we had been saying and started calling Josiah "dia-yah". It was so cute!!

Diyah, Jax and Knox played together A LOT! There were pillow fights and bed wrestling...

Making valentines for Bonnie while she was in the hospital. Well, mostly it was Knox making the valentines, but Josiah did give him great ideas and helped Knox.

 Knox is big time into Legos right now. Josiah LOVED this! Here they are building a new Lego that Knox got. Josiah did a great job of not "helping" (i.e. building it instead of Knox!) but just helping Knox to understand the directions. Of course, I bought one for Josiah to build as well. 😊 And Josiah wisely used the opportunity to help build it as an incentive for Knox to obey for DAYS. He's learning these tricks very well!

 Josiah, Jax and Knox played ball in the garage. Also another big hit!

 And Josiah watched/corralled Jax while we went to watch Knox's basketball game on Saturday. 

Josiah spent so much time playing with Jax and Knox. It was really such a blessing for me to watch. It also enabled me to have time to do things for Bonnie and Jon like their laundry, clean their bathrooms, cook some food for the freezer, etc.

I think one of my favorite memories I'll take from the trip, though, were the evenings. Once the boys had gone to bed, Josiah and I would sit on the couch and read from the devotional book Jesus Calling and talk about the day. What he'd learned, what he'd enjoyed, what he wanted to do the same or differently the next day. Such precious, precious memories.

How many moms can write this post about their 15 year old sons????!!! I'm so grateful and thankful that I can. Josiah, my man, you ARE a rockstar!!!