New Things

Our morning routine has been this lately. Up at about 6:30am, eat a bottle, then make many laps across the house with the hippo walk behind toy, try the cupboard doors to see if they are still locked-yep, still locked :) so onto throwing out as much tupperware on the floor as possible, and then take a nap. The whole time she is going wide open I have the TV on tuned into children shows. Her favorites are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (which is hilarious b/c she loves when they say "OH TOODLES!" and do the Hotdog dance), Handy Manny, and Special Agent Oso. Brian and I both seem to catch ourselves singing along with some of the songs :)

Josey is pretty proud of herself being able to eat her cereal puffs all by herself. You usually barely get the cover off and she has her hand diving in pulling out as much as she can. She's good at getting them everywhere too....like in her clothes, diaper, floor, etc... I love her facial expression in this picture. This is something we learned this past week. I'm thinking it started at daycare. They are pretty good at teaching her things...good things too :) This is the best picture I could get b/c I had to hold it in my lap and catch her. I stuck my tongue out first and she laughed and then did this. I just love it! It probably won't be cute when she's a 2 year old and does it b/c she doesn't want to do something we told her to do.

I've never played with Josey's hair in the bathtub because she really hasn't had much to play with before :) So yesterday I gave her a mohawk and she didn't miss a beat splashing and jabbering away. Josey absolutely LOVES her baths. She's getting to be a daredevil though...starting to try to stand in the tub.

This used to be Josey's daily routine: check out what she could throw on the floor out of the cabinets. Brian but latches on all of the cabinets and man was she mad when she discovered she couldn't open them anymore. I thought she was going to rip the doors off or get shaken baby syndrome from shaking so hard!

Josey loves to look out of front picture window. She knocks on the window if anyone is out there. She's quite the card! Last week she stuck her tongue out on the window too. We have a wonderful slobber mark on the window now :)

Last but not least, this is Josey's tutu I made. It is a no sew one and I need to fix it but it was the first one I ever tried making. It needs more tulle and shortened. She wasn't sure what to think when she had it on. I was trying to find a cute idea for pictures next time and thought this might be one of them. I'll have to play around a little more before we do pictures in a couple more months. Hard to believe she's going to be 8 months this Saturday!

As for Brian, he's still been steady with his jobs which is a lifesaver. For the first year of the business, he's done quite well! I knew he could do it. Me, I've been having a frustrating time at work and wondering if I should even be a nurse anymore. I pray it gets better.