Birthday girl, born at 11:01pm March 25th 2008

7lbs 4 oz 19.5 inches.

Now: 18.5 lbs, 27 inches

She has been walking for 3 months

and wears a size 3-6 month shoe!!!

and almost has 4 molars!!!!

with all of the excitment and being a little sick (from teething 4 molars we think) she didn't nap at all, all day! So she was due for a little melt down.

My cake, I am proud of it. I am not creative or crafty at all and so with a turn out like this I am very happy.

She has her tounge out so I think she is excited to dive into it.

Josie and Mom. What a difference a year makes! Crazy, did this last year really even happen?!?!

I got her this Noah's Ark toy. I think it's cute.

Doll from grandma Jackson.

Yea!!! I was so excited she felt good enough to cram some cake! We had to take it away after a while, wow she loved it and didn't want to stop eating!

happy birthday josie

1st time and never ever again........

Today we met up with our new friends at the Wichita State baseball game. It was fun to spend time with a couple who have a kid around Josie's age. For about 20 minutes....... then it was no fun, well for me at least. Josie, while yes having her walk early is cute. It is all she wants to do, and sitting still is not something that happens any more. She was all over the place. Z is the friend in the picture and he is 6 moths older than Josie, but as you call tell a lot bigger! He found her extra hat and was excited to wear it!

Here she is on the move, entertaining everyone she walked past. She has a big smile and loves to flash it to friends and stranger alike. I think she could get anything she wanted from almost anyone.
She climbed some stairs and had fun yelling at everyone walking below! Until she started putting everything she saw into her mouth (including chewed up gum) and threw a fit when I tried to get her to stop.

I knew she was tired and she sacked out after 2 hours of running around in the sun and flinging herself while screaming during her first real tantrum :)

So we will not being going back, not yet, she is too young yet too old (know what I mean) and I am now totally wiped out. I was a good wife and let Jeff watch the whole game un-interrupted, HA he owes me :)

Two of my Favorite things........

besides God and my family are gymnastics and soccer, and I got to do both this week. I currently work very part time at the South YMCA teaching gymnastics. This week was spring break and I got to run a camp. It was so much fun. I had 10 girls all very eager to learn and they all made the week awesome. We worked on floor, beam, bars, vault and two of the girls had there standing back handspring by the end of camp. One of them below had never even taken a class, she was a natural. We are excited she will join us next month! The other girl comes every week to one of my classes. She is in foster care and just loves gymnastics!

Look below at her muscles. Can you believe she is only 8 years old. She is a natural talent!

I also get to be an assistant coach for a Varsity soccer team at a local private school. I just love it. We are only a second year team and lost every game last year. I think already just three weeks into the season we are in better shape and working harder than last year. (haha I don't really know that for sure I was not a coach, but oh boy do we run them into the ground) I have been running with them and I proud to say I have completed the 4 mile run every time we have done it!

The head coach has a son just a few months older than Josie and they come to practice to play with a couple of freshman girls who like to babysit. Wow what a great situation I have!

We play our 1st game on Tuesday so I will keep you posted!

Summer Fashion Show

I was handed down this really cute swim suit from a friend, so we had to try it on! I will ask Josie where her tummy is and she will look at it and then pat it!

Another paci shot, nope we have not any progress on getting rid of it. I'm not really trying as hard I should be..........

And the flip flops! They are size 6 months and she can barely keep them on. My next week one year old has teeny feet!

Her newest love, reading books. She can almost always be found sitting in her room with a picture book in her lap :) This one is her fav. called Jiggle Wiggle Prance. We read it several times a day!

Thats what makes me so nice.......

My title is a line from a song in the musical Wicked. The Good Witch is giving a makeover to the Wicked Witch and and the Wicked Witch says, "oh you don't have too"..... and then the Good Witch says, "I know, that's what makes me so nice". I think it's funny because now when ever I do something for someone and they say, "oh you don't have to", I think.......... I know that's what makes me so nice! I am would be lieing if it weren't true sometimes. Not that I do nice things for people to be praised but it isn't nice to be sometimes. Most likely if you are reading this you know me and know that I moved a lot growing up and to honest I am nice person would take the ponytail holder out of my hair and give to a stranger if they even kind of looked like they needed one. That was how I tried to make friends every two years when I moved, by making people see that I would do ANYTHING for their friendship! That or begging them to let me tag along, or inviting myself. I had too, and I knew that or I wouldn't have any friends. I had an amazing childhood and got to see the world and have experiences that most people can't imagine, but I have never had a best friend. I say I wouldn't trade it all for one, but maybe I would. It's hard to break into people's lives. Most people live around some kind of family or friends who they have know for years and years. And lets face it those people always win when it comes to spending time. My mom started praying for me to have a friend when I born and never stopped. And now I look at my phone and the only people I TALK to are family, and subfinder. Thank goodness I have a texting plan and facebook :) That's how we communicate now I guess. How do you guys do it, have a friend who you talk to, spend time with, go shopping with or out to dinner, someone to talk to about your husband or babies? How do I try to make friends without pushing so hard, I can be pushy to the point of annoying I know, but it's really all I know and it worked in high school, but not anymore. I like being known as the nice girl, but I need someone to cry to as well! Maye I could put an add in the paper Hahaha! Ohhhhh or maybe I could invent a match.com for girlfriends :)

YES........

SHE IS ALREADY IN A GYMNASTICS CLASS! AND SHE LOVES IT!

She dosn't really do much, she is so tiny! The rest of the kids in the class are almost two, but hey it's free ( because I teach at the Y where I take her to the class) and she loves to run around on all the big mats and trampoline. Her hands are too small to hang onto anything but she will eat it! I love watching her laugh and run around.

bye bye binky and one crazy day

I never wanted a pacifier baby but that's what I got! She really likes it. So with advice from our doctor we are trying to break her from it by the time she is one. Which is only 20 days away. We are doing pretty good but look at the pics below. She already had one in her mouth and came across another one so every couple of minutes she would switch them out. It is pretty funny to watch her do this!

Today I subbed in a high school here in Wichita, one of my friends watched Josie for me and she had a blast with her and her kids! I dropped her off at 7:15am and then after school I went to coach my soccer team and after that to teach gymnsatics. I didn't see her until 8:30pm. I have never gone that long with out seeing her, it was crazy. When I walked in the door she was having fun with dad! Taking a bath in the sink in her clothes. Then she smiled and hugged me big time. It was awesome!!!!!