SERIOUSLY!!! One already!!!

This is going to be a long post but if you hang in there you'll get to see some good pics!

We took Josie to the fair for the first time on Sunday, July 26th. She liked the animals but didn't really care about the cows or the pigs. I mean really, think about it! The pigs are always sleeping and the cows, all you see from where you stand is their butts. So what's so great about that! She really liked the rabbits and petted a couple. The goats she got a kick out of because there were a couple in different pens that kept ramming at each other. Guess they didn't like their cellmates! She had her first corndog. Not really this anal mom would only let her have the breading. But she liked it just the same. We also got her her first ice cream cone. That was funny she was trying to lick at it like a dog.

Papa Doug, Mama Carole and Grandpa & Grandma Jones bought her her first swing set for her birthday and Papa Doug brought it over for Daddy to build. So he and Chris worked on it in the garage and it took them 3 nights to get it all put together.

Saturday, August 1st, Daddy & I took her to the Indianapolis Zoo for her birthday. She bought a monkey and a monkey book when we were done. Here she liked the big animals and the sharks in the petting tank. We didn't let her actually pet one because all she would have done is splash the water and I'm sure they don't want that. We plan on this being her yearly birthday tradition.

(In this photo she has just got done trying her first Spaghetti-O's and her first strawberry smoothie. So far this kid has liked everything we have given her except for carrots! She'll eat them if she's hungry.)

She literally fell asleep in 3 minutes after we left the zoo.

Sunday, August 2nd, we had her birthday party! In attendance was Papa Doug, Mama Carole, Uncle Rick, Aunt Michelle, Riley, Kayla, Uncle Nathan, Aunt Emily, Granny Glodyne, Uncle Barney, Jackie, Jennifer, Becky, Aunt Susie, Dawnna, Nathan Garrett, Austin, Cindy, Allyson, Mackenzie, Madeline, Grandpa & Grandma Jones, Aunt Brandy, Nana Louise, Aunt Vickie, Aunt Sandy, Brad, Penny, Abby, Bopper. I don't think I forgot anyone!

She seemed to have a really good time! Didn't mind at all that there was a bunch of people there she just had fun watching all of the kids.

She absolutely destroyed her cake and ate about half of it. At first she started with just the icing, then she found the cake with her hands. Then once she had so much on her hands she just decided to stick her face in it. Why bother with the hands!

This is what was left of the cake!

Now onto the decorations! If it hadn't been for Aunt Emily coming to help me during Josie's naptime it wouldn't have all gotten done. So THANK YOU Aunt Emily!!!

(The monkey cookies Mikey & I decorated)

As far as presents she got alot of clothes and toys. She got a Build a Bear gift certificate from the Hudoff's which we are going to go spend this weekend.

While she was napping Monday afternoon I opened up all of her toys and got them out of the package. When she woke up from her nap and saw the toys she wanted off of my lap. There was no cuddling to be had from her until she played with her toys. That was quite funny because she always has to cuddle after naps.

On Monday, August 3rd, Her BIRTHDAY!!! she and I went to Kohl's, Michaels and then we went and picked up lunch for us and Papa, Mama & Granny. Josie had her first mashed potatoes, biscuit and green beans from KFC. She ate all of it really good. That night when Daddy got home we opened up what we got her and then we went out to play on the swing set. She had a blast on the slide. She especially liked going down the slide head first on her belly. I figured it would scare her and told Daddy so but then she laughed!

And the little terd is trying to climb the slide already!

Tuesday, August 4th, we went for our first year check up. She weighs 24 lbs 10 oz and is 31.25 inches tall. She is 75 % in weight and 97% in height. Developmentally she is 17 months & 1 week. Smart little booger!

Wednesday, August 5th, she stayed home with Grandma Jones and Aunt Brandy all day and when we got home and Daddy went outside she went to the door after him. This is what I found!

So we may be then next parents on the news! with an escaped kid!!! :-)

Well I think I've bored everyone enough plus I'm tired of typing!!!

Bad Bad!

Wow I have been a really bad girl this time.

I just can't keep up on it all. I know, Excuses, Excuses.

Anyway, what's been going on!

June 18th- Josie stood all by herself while at Grandma's. Grandma said she was in the floor playing with a ball and just stood straight up. Grandma said she started yelling to get every one's attention and by the time they turned around Josie sat down. She is really good now standing on her own.

June 30th- Mom fell and broke her leg and shattered her ankle while holding Josie and taking her to swing. She ended up with a rod, plates and screws in her leg and ankle and will be down for 4-6 months. Currently, she is healing well. She's getting tired of being stuck in the chair, bed and couch. I went yesterday and bought her a card kit that she can make some cards while she is stuck. After she gets that done I'm going to go put some scrapbook kits together for her. Told her she might as well take advantage of it and get some scrapping done!

June 30th- I took Kodi and had her put to sleep. She was getting to where she couldn't climb the stairs. She was confused and running into things. And she would just lay and whine. I decided it was time. She'd had a good life and I will greatly miss her!

July 15th- Josie started walking with her walking toy we bought her a while back. She can cruise on it pretty good now but when she goes, she goes and what she hits, she hits and then she fusses because she is stuck. So you have to go turn it for her or listen to her whine.

July 17th- Started taking more steps by herself and now will walk with you only holding one of her hands. Makes me sad our little girl is growing so quickly but I also enjoy every minute of it and all the new things she is learning.

July 21st- She walked from the bedroom door into the living room to the end table by herself. She was quite excited, the whole time she was walking, hands were in the air and she was squealing and giggling.

Words- She currently says: Thank You, See Ya, Levi (dog), Giggles (stuffed dog), Eat, Ba Ba (Bottle), Bath, Good Girl, Big Girl, Mom, DaDa, Kayla, Riley, Mama, Papa, All Gone, All Done

She will kiss you and come at you with mouth wide open and tongue sticking out. So it is one slobbery kiss. She is also blowing kisses and giving you hugs. She pats Mommy when she gives her a hug. :-)

I began taking Fridays off this past Friday to help out with the babysitting. Now all I have is Michelle and Angalene, so they are each taking two days a week and then I take Friday. I plan on doing that until Mom is back up and able to take care of Josie again.

Aunt Emily came and watched her one morning, and it was so nice to leave the house and Josie not be crying for Mommy. Makes it much easier to leave! Thank you Aunt Emily!

I will be glad when Mom is up and at them because Josie is a Big Mama Girl! When Mom stands up on her walker and Josie is around, her arms go straight up wanting Mama to pick her up. So I'm sure Josie will be happy to have her Mama back too!

But since Mama isn't watching her right now, I decided it was time to break her from being rocked during naps. She was only rocked by me and Mama. Michelle always put her in the crib and had trouble doing it because she was used to being rocked. Well I decided since I was home all weekend that it was a good time to start. Talk about boring! Friday morning I put her down and got all my cleaning done other than sweeping and then I had nothing to do! So the afternoon nap I was extremely bored! I miss holding her and staring at her while she sleeps but she does sleep better in her bed.

I've been planning her 1st birthday party and having a great time doing it. It is a monkey theme!!! I made sugar cookies in monkey faces and Mike and I decorated them at night after she went to sleep. So we have neon pink and purple monkeys. I took some pictures, I'll have to bring them and put them on here. Sherry Eller is making her cakes for us. I figured I wouldn't have the time to do it. Here's a pic of her plates:

Aren't they cute?! I made bananas as her invitations.

Well I'll have to post again later.

Here's some random pics:

06-03-09 This is Giggles! (Build a Bear)

06-08-09 Riley's Baseball Game

06-13-09 Nathan & Emily

07-05-09 11 months (I love this picture!)

07-05-09

07-10-09 (Josie had her clothes off so Kayla had to take hers off too)

07-12-09 ( Mommy & Josie)

07-12-09 (Playing Peek A Boo with her Kitchen)

10 Months

At 10 months, Josie is still only crawling but the kid can fly! She is trying to figure out how to stand on her own. She will be crawling, stop and stand up on her toes and hands, butt up in air! It's a funny picture!!!
She has 4 teeth coming in at once right now and she is not happy about it. Poor kid hasn't had just one tooth come in. They've been coming in pairs. I guess this way we'll get over the teething stage quicker.
She now does patty cake and rolling the cake up. She is trying to blow kisses. And she tries to kiss you but comes at you with her mouth wide open. She done this to me Sunday night while Mike was holding her and she bit my upper lip. I thought Mike was going to drop her cause he was laughing so hard. Therefore, she thought it was funny. She hasn't done it since and I sure hope she don't cause that really hurt!
She screams at the top of her lungs a really high pitched annoying scream. She was only doing it when she was mad but now she'll just do it out of the blue until she makes herself cough because she is irritating her throat.
She has also started fake fussing. I have to laugh at her when she's doing that.
She pulls up on her toy box and gets her own toys out. This is nice cause then the toys are all getting played with.
She has found that she can go through the rocking chair and end table and does this alot. She crawls back around the rocking chair, looks at you and claps. Too cute!
She has also started climbing stairs so Daddy had to put the gate up. Once she found the gate she stands up on it and smacks it while screaming cause she's mad she can't go up them. Now we have to get one for the basement stairs because when I am getting her bath ready and I sit her down she heads for the stairs and waits for me to catch her. I have started having to take her in the bathroom and shut the door while I turn the water on. Now I have to put her in the tub when the water is running because if not she is trying to climb in it so she can play in the faucet.
She likes to play with her shoes on her changing table but won't keep shoes on her feet if you put them on her.
When you are changing her diaper she is throwing a fit and trying to get away from you anyway she can. Fine as long as it's not a poopy diaper, then it's a bad situation!
She peed in the floor the first time Sunday night while I was getting her ready for bed. I told Daddy it was no different than the dogs when they did it, so just clean it up and move on!
Speaking of dog, she is really interested in Kodi. For the most part she does good but last night she grabbed a huge handful of hair and pulled. Kodi barked at her and it scared her to death. But it didn't stop her from crawling back to her.
We took the kids to the mall last week to Build a Bear, Josie picked out a dog. We had Kayla & Riley say "Hi Josie" in one of those recorders and she loves that dog. We named him Giggles on his birth certificate because that was all Josie would do after she got him. She drags that dog around everywhere and when she is really fussy all we have to do is get the dog and push the button and she quits. She loves to hear the kids. We take the dog with us to Mama Carole's but we don't take it to Michelle's since the girls like to argue over toys now.
She has started eating the toddler meals here and there and she likes them. She has tried our food and has had pancakes, grilled cheese, chicken & noodles, peas, green beans, red potatoes, cheese, bananas, grapes and loves any kind of bread.
Daddy stayed with her this past Sunday and Mommy had her first dinner out with a friend. I met Penny and we went to Chili's. It was very nice and relaxing. Thank you Daddy!

I signed up to sell Discovery Toys. I am so excited and can't wait to get my kit. Not only do I want to play with the toys but I want to be able to get Josie some good informative toys.
Mike & I have got alot done around the house in the last few weeks. He finally got my mulch down and that made me feel so much better. It didn't get done last year because I was pregnant and was always the one that did it. This is the first time ever he has mulched my flower beds. Did a pretty good job of it too, I might have to make him do it from now on! :-) Now the next thing is to get the house pressure washed again and stained.
Is there ever an end in sight?!

I've been bad again! I need to set myself a weekly workday schedule and get stuff done that way. Updating this being top priority! :-)
Anyway, everything went okay with my D&C and all is well there. Wasn't near as bad as I thought it would be. I was feeling pretty good by noon. Course then I started doing things and by 8:00 I could tell I'd done too much. Shouldn't have pulled Josie around the yard in the wagon, hugh?!
Josie has a total of three more teeth trying to break through. She's been in some pain. I just keep the motrin to her when she gets fussy. I can usually tell cause she digs around in her mouth and she is biting at our shirts trying to chew when you think she is getting ready to hug and love. Nope! She's gonna bite ya!!!
She is all over the house now. She will play pretty good in a room by herself but you better not be gone long. I can no longer go to the bathroom on my own. I will try to sneak out of the room and I will be there taking care of business and here she comes peaking around the door either in the dining room or from the closet side.
Daddy stayed home all weekend. He done stuff around the house but he was around and now he has a little buddy because of it! Now it's not just me that she wants and she doesn't cry every time he picks her up or every time I leave her in the room with him. I hope he keeps this up cause every little girl needs her Daddy around!
I know he's missing racing but I'm loving it! I'm actually getting things around the house done. And I'm not the one doing them! Josie & I went to Cindy's on Saturday morning and I came home to him mulching my flower bed. NEVER been done before!!! I've always done all mulching by myself.
Speaking of Cindy, I went to meet with Allyson so she could teach me on this shopping stuff and OH MY LORD!!!! Did she teach me?! I can't believe all of it. I'm going to start it now so watch out CVS & Krogers!!! I may end up with enough shampoo to take a bath in it, but hey it don't go bad does it!
Well that's all the time I have right now! I'll update more later and get some pics on here too! I can't believe my little baby is going to be 10 months old next Wednesday! Where does the time go?!

Update

Sorry all it's been a long time! I've been very busy trying to get things done and ready for the reunion with some Payne pictures while here at work. Leaves me little time to do other things. I decided I would make time this morning to update things on here before I forget them.
On May 4th we went for Josie's 9 month appointment. We thought she would get shots but she didn't have to. All they did was the normal weighing, length and such. Then pricked her on her big toe to draw blood to check her lead levels and iron levels. That all checked out fine. And my little girl isn't so little! She weighed 20 lbs 13 oz (90%) and was 29.5" long (95%). She was developmentally a 13 month 1 week old. My smart "big" baby!!!
She is crawling really well now. It's not a normal hand and knee crawl either. She has figured out that if she brings her right leg around and uses her foot to push off she can go faster. She has also learned that it slows her down to crawl with a toy in one hand so she puts it in her mouth instead and then crawls where she wants to go. I tell her she looks like a dog with a toy or bone in his mouth! :-)
She follows me around the house everywhere. Only when she is tired or hungry does she cry when I leave the room. The rest of the time she will crawl after me. So much easier to get things done now.
Monday of this week (11th) she started pushing herself up on her feet and hands both flat on the floor. Now if she can only figure out how to stand herself up.
Sunday, while we were at Grandma's for Mother's day. She stood by herself for a few seconds before she fell. But since then I haven't been able to get her to do it. She can lean her back up against something and stand with no holding but that's it.
Now that she is crawling she is not being so nice to Kodi. She thinks it's funny but Kodi doesn't. She will crawl up to her and pull her hair. So then Kodi yelps and Josie laughs. We keep telling her to be nice but she doesn't understand that yet.
She and Kayla are starting to argue. Kayla will go up to her and take whatever it is she has in her hands. Most the time Josie will let it go but sometimes she will get mad back at her and literally scream. It is the most high pitched irritating scream but you can't help but laugh. So now that she has started doing that, she now does it when she doesn't get her way with you or she is mad at you. You tell her "no" and she laughs. We are going to have our hands full!
She is more interested in our food now and it makes me think of what we eat. We sure don't eat very well! She has had spaghetti noodles, tater tots, french fries, cheese, course she's been eating our bread for quite a while and loves it. Grandma made oatmeal muffins this morning and I gave her some of it and she liked them. We're going to have to change our diet!!!
I went to the OB a couple of weeks ago and I have a fibroid in my uterus. He gave me three options that I could do. For the time being due to recovery issues and time I will be having a D&C done next Thursday (22nd). I figure in a year or so when Josie is more independent and more easily entertained, I am going to have a hysterectomy. I have had enough issues with my female parts and I have my main goal, Josie, so I am happy and content. We were going to go ahead and do it now until I found out that it is still a 4-6 wk recovery, 2 wk of non driving, 4-6 wk off work, and I wouldn't be able to lift her. She is too big of a Mommy's girl right now for me to not be able to lift her. I just wouldn't be able to stand it! :-( I just love being a woman!!! I hope and pray with all of my heart that Josie does not end up like me in that area.
Well I think that is everything!