Swimming

Well, this last Saturday night we were invited over to Ron and Betty DeGarmo's, with the Garvalia's, of course. We had a wonderfully warm evening and got to spend some time in their very nice pool. This was the first time that Josie got to experience a real pool. I mean she has a little kiddie pool that she can splash around in but at DeGarmo's, she really got the full swimming experience. And she LOVED it. Here are a few pictures of her in the pool.

Here she is sitting on the edge of the pool, feeling the water with her toes.

She seemed to like the water.

She seems to think this swimming thing is pretty nice.

She's watching the Garvalia boys, thinking she should stay away from there splashing.

Here are a few pictures of her in her pool here at home.

Butch also got in on the action, he thought Josie's pool was a good place to get a drink. Josie didn't seem to think that Butch should be drinking from her pool. So, she splashed him.

Josie has also now started to climb up on anything she can.

9 Months Old

Well, we have hit the 9 month milestone. Josie seems to be doing excellent. She had her 9 month well baby check up earlier this week and she weighed in at 20 pounds 2 ounces and measured just shy of 28 inches long. She is still falling into the 50-75th percentile range. She is slowing down in her weight gain but she has become a very active little girl. Here she is showing how active she is both crawling and standing up, walking along things.

Needless to say she loses her pants easily.

And when you play hard, you crash hard too. Doesn't take much to relax and fall asleep when Daddy is holding you.
Here she is showing how much she likes to eat. One of her favorite foods is spaghetti.

This last weekend she was able to enjoy playing all day with her cousins Griffin and Finley. Here is a great picture of her and Griffin. I think Griffin is trying to show Josie how to drive.

Here they are several weeks ago and Griffin is pushing Josie around in his new toy. They were having a blast.

I hope those of you reading this enjoy. I keep asking myself if I should keep posting, any thoughts?

Bye, bye Bottles

Well, as many of you know, Josie has decided that she no longer wants the bottle. She will go all day without drinking anything but water. Atleast she is eating table food, like it may disappear any minute. We have tried every trick that people have suggested to us. Even the doctor doesn't know what to think of Josie not taking the bottle. One good thing is that Josie still nurses morning and night. We were just starting to wean her to formula when this bye, bye bottle started. We do think that she is starting to get some more teeth, so hopefully they poke through soon and she will start on the bottle again. She has started drinking some whole milk now, only several ounces per day, as we don't want her to have too much too soon. With all of this going on, I also came down with Mastitis earlier this week. I know have a new found pain, that I hope to never have to experience again. It was a good thing that we recognized the symptoms fairly quickly and went in to the doctor right away. Thank goodness for good drugs!

Luke also got his brand new discbine last week and was busy all weekend with hay. We are also up to 25 calves born, but unfortunately we lost 1 calf due to the heat. We still have 3 more cows that have not had calves, but we have have another month to go.

Our garden is doing wonderfully. We've even had to pick all of our radishes already. And yes I did try them, although I didn't really care for them.

Josie is still walking along everything and climbing off of her toys. Almost every morning we find her standing in her crib waiting for someone to get her out. She is such a joy and we are so very lucky to have such a wonderful little girl that is always so happy.

Walking...with help!

Well Josie has definetely reached another milestone. All of a sudden in the last week all she wants to do is stand or walk. She really likes to walk around things. She does a great job bending over and picking things up as well. She also likes to get mad when you force her to sit down. She will then proceed to scoot over to the nearest thing that she can stand up next to. She still needs some practice getting up but she is cruising along nicely in the bumps and bruises section of childhood.

She is also still trying to recover from the never ending cold that can't seem to leave her or me alone. Luckily, Luke has been able to avoid the colds and he is over half way through getting the corn in. Then he'll get to spend a little more time with his baby girl. The plumbing business is also doing great. He already has a lot more jobs than he originally expected. Yeah!!

Spring time = BUSY

We'll again it has been too long since I have blogged. So just to recap here is what has happened in the last 2 weeks.
-Luke and I celebrated our 4th Anniversary, where he sent me a gorgeous bouquet of flowers to my work.
-I celebrated another birthday, where Luke sent another gorgeos bouquet of flowers to my work. I am such a lucky girl!!!
-We weeded the garden where we have potatoes, onions, radishes and peas poking up out of the ground(hopefully they don't get hurt by the frost that we are expecting tonight).
-Luke has gotten our farm almost all the way planted with both alfalfa and corn.
-We are up to 5 baby calves born, and they all came just this week! Wait... I just got to watch number 6 be born while writing.
-Luke's plumbing business is coming along great and he is getting a lot of jobs, thank goodness!
-Josie is starting to try and crawl and also starting to pull herself up onto things. Mostly she likes to crawl over mom or dad.
-Josie also is loving to talk "dadadadadada." That is what we hear throughout our days. Of course Luke loves to point out that she said dada first.

Josie is also still just doing to the army crawl to move around, although she has moved a little more towards crawling. Hopefully she starts crawling soon or she'll be walking before she crawls. We'll just have to wait and see what she does. Now this weekend we are going to celebrate Mother's Day, boy I sure am lucky, all the celebrations for me in the course of several weeks! We hope all you Mother's out there have a great day!!!

The Last Several Weeks

We have had several busy weeks since Easter. Between Josie and I, I'm not sure which one of us has been sicker. We thought Josie had pink eye so we did the whole drops routine but after a week her eyes are still slightly weeping and she now has a full blown cold. Then a week after her eyes started weeping mine started in too. Needless to say the girls at work were having fun calling me "Pinky". I don't know if they were trying to insult me or not. :)

Josie got a wonderful playset for the yard from both sets of grandparents. She definetely has room to grow into this. Here's a few pictures of her and the swingset.

We also had a wonderful evening with the Garvalia bunch. Tony really enjoyed holding Josie.

Josie has also become a real pro at the army crawl. She has found that she can get into places that she's never been before. She found that she doesn't have to be in her bouncer to have fun with it. Being underneath can be just as fun.

Her hair has also become long enough to put it into pig tails. I love it!!! It really has helped to keep the hair out of her eyes, especially the way they have been weeping lately.

Josie's cousin Alyssa also gave her a little scooter. Here's Josie trying out the scooter.

Overall, we have had a very busy few weeks. Hopefully everything slows down a bit.

Let's not forget to wish Grandma LeJeune a Happy Birthday!

Easter

Well Easter was a great day this year. We had a wonderful time with Josie and the rest of the family. We were able to spend time with all three family groups. We started the day with Josie getting her Easter basket from mommy and daddy. She got a mirror for the backseat of the truck(yes it was more for mommy than for Josie, but she didn't need any more toys).

Now a picture of Josie, butch and her Easter basket.

Then we went to Great Grandma and Grandpa Graff's were she had presents from several people. She had presents from Great Grandma and Grandpa Graff, Grandma and Grandpa LeJeune and Aunt Kim and Uncle BJ. She had lots of fun opening these gifts and then playing with them.

She also got to sit and swing in the kitchen of Great Grandma and Grandpa's house.

If only she knew that this would only be a tast of the swinging that she would get to do at cousin Jason and Tracy's, on the LeJeune side.

She also enjoyed a small swing with Jason and Tracy's girls, Cadie and Alyssa.

Then she finished this party off with the first of two Easter egg hunts. This one she got to hunt with her Fairy Godfather, Uncle John.

Next we were back to the farm to celebrate with the Hanson's where she got to visit with her cousin's Griffin and Finley. Here's a picture of Josie and Finly, Josie saw Finley on the floor and rolled across the room to get closer to her.

Here a picture with Charlie, Casey and Ryan's dog, and her last Easter egg hunt.
Overall, this Easter was great! We hope everyone else had a good Easter.