The Winner

Josh has a psychic ability... today (well I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago) I had a look in the letter box and saw there was something in there. I didn't have the key, so I went inside to grab it. Josh said that it was a letter for him from his friends. Inside the letter box was a letter addressed to Josh from his friends at 'Little Coles'. (We have two Coles stores, one used to be BiLo and is smaller than the other one).

A couple of weeks earlier Josh spent the morning colouring in a picture of the (Cadbury) Easter Bunny for the local store colouring competition. He was so proud of his picture and watched them as they hung it on the wall. Each time we went to Coles he checked that it was still there.
We were all very excited while he tried to open the envelope. We got impatient in the end and opened it for him and read out that he had won! He was jumping up and down and had the biggest smile on his face. We had to go down straight away to pick up his prize.

Walking up to the Service Desk he saw Ros and Anne (his two Cole's friends) and they were very excited that 'their' Josh had won. I think nearly all of the Coles staff know Josh and Sam... especially the full timers, but even some of the weekend, younger staff now too. Josh will talk to them all, and ask them their name. They used to reply with their name and ask his name... now they reply with "I bet your name is Josh". Then he usually says "that's my brother, Sam". And depending on who is with him... "that's Mum / that's Dad".

They handed Josh an envelope with a $20 gift card in it as his prize. He wasn't too thrilled about that until we told him that he could go to Kmart and buy a Thomas train with it!