Sense of Humor

It amazes me how much personality a two year old can possess. Everyday we learn something new about Josey and she reveals to us what she is learning by observation and listening. So about her sense of humor...she's always been a little stitch but the other day was the most hilarious thing she has ever done/said. My mom and I had gone to the Mall of America to get new laptops (Microsoft Store was having a great deal on computers...and I needed one for my master's- PERFECT!). Anyway, when we were just getting headed back home, I offered to drive out of the cities. My mom asked why and I responded, "Your driving scares me." :) About 5 minutes later, Josey is in the backseat and we hear, "I scared! AAHHHH!" Then to top it off, when we made it into Mantorville (the town right by Kasson), Josey looked around and said, "Yay! Amy made it!" (Remember, Josey calls my mom Amy for an unknown reason) I about wet b/c the whole thing was not prompted by me at all. Josey had come up with this all by herself.

In a week, Josey will start at a home daycare suggested to us from a longtime friend of my family. The lady is the friend's mother-in-law who also watches his three kids. We met with her on the 14th to visit about details and see how Josey interacted with her. Let me tell you, Josey is still occasionally asking about "Debbie" and wanting to see her. I think this will be a perfect fit. Josey will be going three days a week which will be nice once the baby gets here and I can ease into the mothering of two children. Then the little pipsqueak will be attending roughly the beginning of June.

I am so excited about Josey meeting the baby. I think she's going to be the greatest big sister! A friend of mine had a baby about three weeks ago and we've seen her a couple of times so far. Josey is great with little baby Keira. The other day Josey sang Happy Birthday the baby (my belly) and then got really close to my belly and says, "Hi Toodles!" I call Josey, Toodles, and she thinks that's just a name to call anyone now :) Goofball!

Word of the Day

AWESOME! I'm not sure where Josey picked this word up from but she's used it many times today. The funniest was when we were at the check out at Sam's Club and the associate asked, "How are you guys doing today?" Without skipping a beat, Josey responds, "Awesome." The look on the workers face was priceless and then he said that was the best response he's gotten all day :) That'd be my toddler for you!

Another funny moment, we went out to eat for an early birthday celebration for Brian since I have to work tomorrow night. The waitress asked what we wanted to drink. Josey ordered her own water. Then to top it off, when she came to take our food order, Josey replied, "Corndog...Josey Kurner." (She can't seem to say her T's anymore so it is always Kurner) I laughed and told Josey that she didn't need to give her name to get her meal :) Oh how she seems to be growing up too quickly.

Ooh, before I forget, Josey and I went to visit a friend today that had a baby a week ago. I thought it would be the perfect test to see how Josey would react when I was holding a baby. At first, she didn't know what to think. Then within minutes of watching me, Josey held her arms out to hold baby Kiera. I helped Josey hold little Kiera on the couch and then she gave her a little shoulder hug and kissed her on her head. Josey also had to kiss baby Kiera before we left the house. I couldn't believe how sweet my little girl was being! She might be a wild child at times but she still has a soft heart like her Mommy :)

Happy Birthday Josey!

Hard to believe that just two years ago our lives changed forever by being blessed with a little girl! Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into :) We planned Josey's birthday party for the Saturday before her real birthday party. It got postponed! Friday night while we were eating supper, Josey kept complaining her belly hurt but we were thinking it was b/c she was hungry so we continued to get her to eat anything for supper. She calmed down and decided she wanted to "feed" her piggy (her porceline piggy bank). As she stood on the chair next to the table getting ready to feed her piggy, up came everything she ate that whole day. Poor peanut didn't know what was going on. Josey continued to throw up every 15-30 minutes until 3am. She was then able to sleep for 2 hours; yep, I said 2 hours. All of Saturday consisted of sitting on the couch watching different cartoons and cuddling. She wasn't much into eating anything but would at least drink water. We tried Pedialite & Powerade No Sugar but HAVE YOU TRIED THAT GARBAGE??? I finally tried it when she said she didn't like either one of them and quickly realized why. They were very syrupy tasting. By Saturday night, Josey was feeling much better. Back to doing her "Hotdog dance" and playing like crazy.

Sidebar, this picture has nothing to do with her birthday party but I couldn't resist b/c her hair is just now long enough to do two full pigtails. I love this look!
Sunday, we were able to have her party! I tried to come up with ideas to make it special for her. We did your normal decorating with streamers and balloons but I still wanted to do something original for her. I got it! I put random pictures from the two years on the refrigerator and then filled our digital frame's SD card with pictures of Josey's life. I can't tell you how many times I caught her with a table chair pushed up to the stand that had the digital frame on it "watching Josey." She felt pretty special :)

Here is Josey's Mickey Mouse cupcakes. I thought this might be a cool idea and how many other kids have these?!? Plus we had this glass cake holder given to us as a wedding gift so it worked out perfect. We had most of the theme Mickey Mouse but a few things were princess or pink/purple.

The birthday girl with her special cupcake with a jumbo Mickey candle on top. She didn't quite get the blowing out of the candle so she got a little help. Next year, I'm sure she'll have no problem getting the concept of blowing out the candles :)

I know you'll be surprised but Josey didn't have ANY problem ripping into her gifts! The only thing is we had to kind of help continue opening gifts b/c everyone she opened she wanted to play with right then.

Here's Josey testing out her "pouting" chair from her great aunt and uncle. It worked out perfect for her to watch TV in. We put on Open Season and that kept the kids occupied for a few minutes. In fact, I think a few of the adults were mesmerized by the cartoon movie. LOL

So for Josey's real birthday, we didn't have anything really planned. I did have pictures set up for in the morning but other than that...nothing. Pictures went as well as you could expect with a two year old. I'll post some of the pictures once I get them from the photographer. It was the same photographer I had do Josey's 1 year pictures. She did a great job and showed me a couple from the shoot so far. It amazes me how grown up Josey looks in the pictures. Wait and see and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Brian and I brainstormed for ideas as to what to do to make HER day special. How about swimming? Josey's response, "YEAH!" We headed to the Ramada in Rochester and we were the only ones in the pools! Let me rephrase that...Brian and Josey were the only ones in the pool. No way am I getting into a suit this pregnant! They had a blast and Brian learned how fearless Josey really is when it comes to water. She tried to jump into the big pool and hot tub all by herself. Both times, she was grabbed before she was able to accomplish what she had her mind set on doing.

We were working on her kicking her legs when Brian was holding her in the swimming position. She kind of got it :)

Coming down the kiddie slide!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl! We love you!