a new milestone

it may not be a big deal to you...but...jossy no longer tries to eat her play-doh! YEA!!! i can walk away (to say, make dinner) and trust her not to eat it! very exciting.

we had a little celebration at bugaboo creek tonight. joss was a bit freaked out by the people singing and holding a moose. we had a great time, and joel took much better pictures than i did!

happy birthday jossy

today jossy is 1!!!
i cannot beleive it!
she is truly a blessing and brings so much joy to our lives.
we love her so much!

random

this is going to be a somewhat random post.
yesterday, we watched micah and joss did not know how to properly channel her excitement and was trying to body slam him :) we watched jossy have her snack



you may (or may not) be wondering where alexa is in these pics. well yesterday i took her to her first day of 'school'. while pregnant with joss i was looking for some kind of program to put alexa in so i could have some time blah, blah...but instead we chose to have sara come (which was a great choice). i am finding that i still would like some of that time! and alexa, being the social kid that she is, needs some stimulation. we thought it would be great for her. so, she goes to the y 2 mornings a week for a few hours. so i took her yesterday and she did great. i hung out for about an hour and she seemed comfortable so i left. the teachers said she did great and had a great time.
then in the afternoon i had decided that i wanted something chocolate...and since i don't make box cakes anymore i decided to make some black bottom cupcakes....this is dedicated to you aunt cheryl. only a few minutes after i had started BOTH kids woke up. we are now in the process of transitioning jossy to 1 nap. i kept them occupied with cupcake liners. it actually worked. so, thanks to priscilla and andre (and possibly anne) i only have a few of them to enjoy for myself.




then i was off to a meeting. as you can see the lip has healed nicely. thanks anne for babysitting...

did i tell you all that we took alexa on a roller coaster?
yes, we did. i did not think it was a good idea, and since alexa has a dad who is just as much in charge of her, she went.
it was andre, alexa, jim and tristan. andre said that she was into it the first 2 times, but was done by the third time around. it was hilarious! and i will admit that i was a bit more nervous than i ever like to be!

bump

alexa went bump...but it was more like CRASH last night.
we were hanging out after church with my dad and gwen and getting suitcases. we said our 'byes' and went to our car. andre opened the door for alexa to climb in and i was at the other side putting jossy in her seat. andre dropped something on the way to the car and went to get it. all of a sudden i heard a bang and a scream...alexa fell out of the car (we do have an suv). gwen came running from the other parking lot and we prayed for her. she is all scraped up and had the beginnings of a black eye last night. it was so sad. on the drive home she kept holding her head and saying 'head hurts mommy'. we asked her all kinds of questions and she was answering them so we figured she was alright. poor kid.
also, jossy had 3 teeth pop through yesterday!

yea!

it is official...joss is *finally* crawling!