Well... there has been lots going on in our world lately. Over Thanksgiving, Josie came down with the flu, which unfortunately lasted for over a week. Needless to say, 2 weeks later, both Luke and I came down with the flu. Luckily Josie did not get it again. During her flu stint we took her to the hospital 2 times and a 3rd time, which was technically her 15 month well baby check. She is doing great on the growth charts. She was up in the 90th percentile for height and about the 50th percentile for weighy, although she had lost over a pound since coming down with the flu, so I'm sure she would have been bigger than that.
We finally got heat in the duct work in the house. Yeah... It is finally warm on the second floor of the house. This was a huge relief as that has taken up a lot of Luke's time. Now we just have to put a ceiling up, finish the sheetrock, paint the house, and put trim work back up. Needless to say we just left this until after the holiday's.
Josie has cut more teeth. She has cut 2 molars and has a total of 9 teeth, with plenty more coming. She loves playing outside in the snow, but with it being so cold out, we haven't been able to get her out more than a couple of times. She got to go sledding with her cousin Griffin in front of the shed on Christmas Eve. She seemed to really like sledding and didn't mind getting snow in her face.
Christmas was great with Josie this year. She really liked the wrapping paper. But if there was a toy wrapped up inside, she wanted the toy immediately. It seemed like she was unwrapping presents all weekend. She received all kinds of toys that really likes, but her favorite came from her Grandpa LeJeune which was a rocking horse. She just loved this present, and got slightly mad when we had to wrap it back up to take it home. Pictures will have to come on a later blog.
This last week has been fairly quiet as we are getting ready for Luke to head out of town for several weeks for work. He will be down in Indiana for about 3 weeks. This means it will be just Josie and I at the farm. Luke's brother, Brett, lives just down the valley from us and will be coming over daily to feed the calves, check the cows and fill the boiler, so that I don't have to worry about this. When Luke was working in Milwaukee, 2 years ago, I did chores every night with the occasional help from his dad, my dad, my brother and sometimes even the neighbors. But this time I am 20 weeks pregnant with a 16month old, last time I was only 6 weeks pregnant with Josie. I definitely do not have the energy this time to do chores... or the time. Hopefully the cows and calves behave themselves over the next several weeks and everything goes smoothly. Otherwise, it may get a little interesting on the farm.
