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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.

Another Ultrasound

So...last Thursday, I had my 14 week check up with Dr. Lerberg and this baby is proving that it wants to hide. We started looking for the babies heartbeat and after about 5 minutes of trying without hearing anything, the Dr. called for an ultrasound machine. So, once the ultrasound machine the Dr. started looking for the baby and it really was trying to hide. Finally she was able to find the baby and see the beating heart. Unfortunately, since we didn't get to hear the heartbeat, she wasn't able to tell me were the heartrate was at. Hopefully the next appointment in Dec. the baby will be too big to hide.

Josie is doing great. She is teething like crazy, as she still only has 5 teeth. So a lot more for her to get. She is starting to run all around the house. Her newest thing is that she loves to spin. She has made it up to 3 full rotations before she falls like a log.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Kisses

So, on Sunday night, Josie was sitting in Luke's lap while he was eating supper. Right as he opened his mouth for a bite of food, Josie leaned in and gave him a big ole kiss. Ever since then, she is ready and willing to give just about anybody a kiss.

Josie enjoyed trick or treating, except the part about wearing a costume. She wasn't so sure about the Hunny Pot costume. Hopefully next year she will enjoy it a little bit more.

I received a call from my Family Medicine/OB doctor, Dr. Lerberg. She was calling about the ultrasound that we had done last week. She confirmed that everything looked good and she moved up my due date to May 15. Yeah, I am officially in my second trimester!!!

Bad Blogger...Lately!

Well, It appears to have been a while since I have blogged last. As many of you know we have had a great deal of things to deal with lately. So I'll attempt to recap the last 5 weeks or so. We put our trailer up for sale and we were lucky enough to sell it within a week of it being for sale. This is also a bad thing since the big house wasn't exactly ready to move into. We still need to complete a final coat of mud on the new drywall and paint the entire main floor. We also have not had any heat in the house. Hopefully by the end of the day we will have heat though. So, we've all been camping out in 1 room at night and running a little heater, provided by our friends Doug and Julie.

We took Josie to the Vernon County Fair and she absolutely loved it this year. She walked around almost the whole time. She really loved the Dairy cow barn. She is fascinated by cows. We also took her to the Retreat's Worlds Fair and she had a blast.

In the midst of moving to the big house, Josie came down with an ear infection and an eye infection. So Luke had to stay home part of the day with her and then I had to come home from work. Luke got all of the combining of corn completed which was a huge relief to have completed.

And lastly, we are going to have another baby. According to an ultrasound that we had this last week, I am due May 23. Everything looked good with baby and the heartbeat was 160. We are so excited to be expecting another baby and providing Josie with a play mate.

Also, Happy Halloween to everyone. Josie is going to be Hunny Pot from Winnie the Pooh. I'll post pictures later as she is currently taking a nap and hasn't had the costume on yet today.

Birthday Parties and... the Flu

Well, the last several weeks have been quite eventful. To start, Josie had her 1 year check up with the doctor and her are her stats.

Height - 2 ft 6 in - 85th percentile

Weight - 21 pounds 6 ounces - 54th percentile

Head circumference - 46 cm - 76th percentile

Next, Luke and Josie came down with the flu. Luckily, Josie only was sick for a day, but her daddy was sick for about 5 days. I thought I was going to get lucky, but unfortunately I came down with the flu the night before Josie's party. We decided to still have the party, but it had to be outside. We didn't want to take any chances of getting sick. So far, nobody has come down with the flu.

Josie got lots of great gifts and truly enjoyed her cake. Griffin got into the cake as well and helped Josie dig in. If it hadn't been so cool outside the kids probably would have had more fun with the cake. There's always next year though. Here a few pictures of her party.

Birthday Girl

Well...I can't believe the day is here but our little girl has turned 1. It's amazing to think of all the milestones that have come and gone in the last year. She is now walking like a pro. Of course, she has to carry something at all times too. She is even starting to try and run. So to recap, at age 1, she is walking, talking like crazy, and has 4 teeth. We have her 1 year appointment later this week so we'll find out then how she is doing growth wise. Her words consist of momma, dadda, hi, done, thank you, please, and it sounds like "what's this". The last one we are for sure about but every time she goes digging into her toys and pulls one out it sounds like she is saying what's this.

Last weekend her Auntie Becca came down and took her one year pictures and they turned out better than expected. We decided to take some outside around the farm. We really wanted some by the cattle, but with two bulls running around(with pinkeye, of course), we couldn't take the chance. Maybe next year. Attached are a few of our favorites so far, granted, I love them all.

On the house front, not much has changed, it's amazing how when Luke finally has some time, the weather turns nice and it becomes haying season. Oh well, the hay has to get made when the sun is shining. Our plan is still to be in before it gets cold and we have to turn the heat on.

Walking!!!

Well today seems to be the biggest improvement day for Josie. She seems to be walking so well!!! She's even figured out how to steady herself before she starts to walk and once she's walking. She is really into walking all over the place now. She seems to be crawling less and less and walking more and more. Just wait until we get over to the big house, she won't know what to do with all the space.

On another front, she doesn't seem to like bedtime anymore. She has to cry it out for a few minutes. Maybe that's because she's still trying to prove to mom how much she misses her. She is now fully weaned and doing well.