Quick trip to KS

We ended the trip at the Doughnut Whole, one of our favorite places. We met Josie's best friends there. Josie stayed with Grandma Mimi (even though I tried to bring her to the lake with us, she wanted nothing to do with leaving grandma!) and Jeff and I went to the lake with some friends. We spent some time on the boat, took a few naps and learned a new sport.

I have never really spent much time on the water (I am a mountain girl) but I managed to navigate my way on a wake board.

Jeff did too.

We had such a good time!

3 1/2

Josie is super fun and funny at 3 1/2. This is her best friend ever, so far, and they both say they are going to get married! To bad he lives in Wichita, but I guess you never know =)

Josie is not going to preschool this year, gasp!!! I know, what an awful mom I am and I'm sure she will be sooo far behind when kindergarten rolls around. Oh well, my kindergarten/special education teacher mom says she will catch up and be fine so I'm just gonna enjoy my time with her at home. (she just this very moment told me I am her best mommy) She is however going to gymnastics and cheer once a week each. She loves it!

She is also working on some memory verses and my mom told me she would bring home some worksheets from school. For a 3 1/2 year old she has a giant vocabulary, so we are working on some new words and synonyms. Today I taught her disappointed for sad, frustrated for angry and exhilarated for happy. She is walking around using them like a pro.

She loves to play! She is so creative, making up stories and playing with dolls like they are real people. It is captivating to watch. She loves to help me cook, do dishes, clean. She just gabs a stool and joins right in.

She can skip, throw a ball and catch it, kick a ball, loves to run, do a back bend and almost kick both legs up to a full handstand. She keeps asking her gymnastics teacher when she is going to learn how to do a real back flip!!!! She loves to do sit ups and push ups with Jeff and I, so I think we may have an athlete on our hands. She also loves to sing and sing LOUD!!! Ummmm don't think we have a pro singer, oh well it makes me smile! My favorite thing however is when she says mom, mom, MOM, MOOOMM and I finally say (a little annoyed) WHAT JOSIE!! And she answers, I love you! I love you too Josie, more than you will ever know!

We went on vacation

And Josie spent the entire time in the pool! We spent a week with my mom side on the fam at Rockport in TX. Josie made alot of new friends. She just loved my cousin Chris's girlfriend Molly!

My aunt and uncle have a house right on the bay and we a lot of fun just being at the house swimming, riding in the golf cart and relaxing.

Oh and its not a Hall vacation with out dominoes, loots of dominoes!

Josie played in the pool with cousins and by herself. She never really got out =) Right after breakfast - pool and stayed in her suit til around 10pm when she fell into bed.

Time on the boat was fun too.

Josie's bestest friend, cousin Lauren!

Love the pool that looks like it is connected to the ocean!

Dinner outside every night, yup josie got out of the pool to eat.

One day of beach time, Josie preferred the pool =)

We had so much and can't wait to go back!