All Aboard

Josie has begun to figure out when it is the weekend as she wakes up on Saturday's and says, "Farmer's market?" Erin and I love the farmer's market too, lots of great food and people watching. Josie especially loves the train. Loves to ride around pumping her fist yelling, "choo choo!"

Up Up and Away

What is Josie looking at you ask, why all the balloons of course! We took Josie down to the Balloon Festival in Indianola, IA. It was our first time there and it was great. Josie got to run around, mom and dad got to relax on the grass, and we all got to eat lots of food. There were about 75 balloons and they just kept taking off. When we left Josie said, "Come back later?" She obviously had a great time.

Josie's ABC's

Copy and paste the link below to see our Josie Girl jumping on the couch and singing her ABC's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tPxRu-3-8o

What a character!

After dinner tonight, since Josie ate everything on her plate, we said she could have a popsicle in the backyard. She decided she would rather go to the park instead (she is smart, as I am sure when she gets back she will ask for a popsicle). So Josie said "Go park instead Daddy?" when Billy said OK. She said, "Bye Bye mommy, relax ok mommy, take care!" and leaned in for a kiss. Crack me up! Obviously when Billy leaves he emphasizes that I should be relaxing and Josie has caught on. When I hang up the phone with people I usually say take care. She picks up on everything!

Josie can...

Over the weekend Josie counted to 10. She knows her ABC's too! Tonight we started working on our last name and what mommy and daddy's first names are. She also likes to practice saying her friend Lane's last name. She is learning so much right now!

I Love Food!

The first photo is from Ribfest 2009. Josie loved sharing pulled pork with dad and thought the beans were delicious too. Her favorite was probably the waffle ice cream sandwich. I thought we were going to share, but Josie wanted it all!

The second photo is the day after Aunt Terri came. We had her left over spaghetti and Josie fell in love with it. We've already put in a request for it when the boys arrive.

Other things Josie is into right now:
She is very in touch with her emotions and others. I am tired more and more now and she will come over give me a kiss and say mommy you rest or mommy go night night. This morning in the car I was drinking a ton of water all at once and she just watched and said Mommy are you thirsty? In this very concerned little voice.

She loves putting her monkeys into diapers then putting them in her stroller or car seat.

Josie is great at singing her favorite songs, and started to spell her name. When she writes she will say "J-o-s-i-e" as she scribbles on paper.

We are working on potty training and she does pretty good!

This is an exciting time as I feel like she is learning something new all the time!

Josie's July

Josie has had a wonderful July so far! She has had many visitors and has loved seeing each of them. Over the 4th of July, Baby Hank (and his mom and dad) came to visit. Josie just loved seeing baby Hank. Even though it rained and was cold all weekend, we had a blast seeing the Frohloff's and catching up.

Grandshe came for a weekend too. While she was here we got to meet Leslie's twin boys Sully and Will. They are 6 months old and it was fun to see what our future holds! Josie loved rocking the car seats when the boys fell asleep. She already has the hang of this big sister thing. Then Sunday, Aunt Terri, Scott, Emily, Kieffer, & Drew. All came over. They made us dinner and cut Josie's bangs.

Last weekend Josie's best friend Marlee came up with Sam and Riann. Josie and Marlee had fun playing in the house in the backyard, sharing the toy vacuum, pretend high heels, and everything else they could get their hands on. We all road in the van together, which Josie thought was so cool. She is still telling me where Marlee, Sam, and Riann all sat in the van.

It was great to have everyone come see us this month!