Cousins

We were lucky enough to spend the weekend with my sister Kelley, and my sister-in-law, Trisha. Trisha is visiting from Hawaii with her kids. We wish that Dan could have come too, but it was great to see Trisha and her adorable little ones. Here are some pictures of Josie with her Hawaii cousins.

Josie and Brandson. Josie is about 2 months older than Brandson.

Brandson (2 mo), Naylia (2 1/2) and Josie (4 mo)

The other exciting thing that happened this weekend is that I lost my voice and Josie found hers. Here is a sample of her favorite noise to make now. Its a happy/angry/sad/all purpose noise to her. So fun... and so loud!

all grown up

I haven't updated for a while, so I decided it was about time. The thing that made me think of updating today is that I had the sad realization that my baby is growing and FAST! This morning, we were playing on the floor in the living room and she was trying to get a toy into her mouth (Of course). It wouldn't cooperate, so she wiggled around until all of a sudden she rolled right over onto her tummy! The poor toy was then right under her face and had no escape. I just couldn't believe it! She's not supposed to be that big yet! She loves to stand and is even trying to sit up these days. She tries to pull herself up whenever she gets the chance. And, she gets thrilled whenever we sit her up somewhere where she has a good view. (Like the barstool at the counter). We gave her a bottle last weekend, and she decided that she wanted to try holding the bottle! We had to take the head cushion out of the carseat because it was too small for her and instead bought some of the little pads that hook on to the shoulder belts. I've had to put away all of her newborn clothes (FINALLY) and even some of the 3 mo. stuff. I can't believe she is almost 4 months old! She'll be eating rice cereal in no time! When she was brand new, she used to fall asleep on my shoulder all the time. Now, she just wants to look around and play and gets mad at me when I try to cuddle. How sad! But at the same time, we are having a lot of fun with this stage too. Its like my mom said, your favorite stage is usually the one they are in, but you always miss the stages they leave behind.
We've had some fun this week. Joslyn has been spending more time in her jungle jumper and has really started to love it. She's even figured out how to make it move around by keeping one leg on the ground and wiggling the other all over the place. Its so funny! The lights and sounds are her favorite part though. She'll just sit there and watch them for a long time.

On Monday night, we got to baby-sit while Justin's brother and his wife went to a concert here in Logan. We made Rolo cookies (always a favorite!), colored, drew mazes, and played Hi-Ho Cherry-O! While we were making the cookies, Justin played some fun songs on the guitar. The favorites were "I am a Child of God", "You are my Sunshine", and the one he made up about the tractor, goats, and making cookies. It was a lot of fun. I makes me more excited for Josie to get older (just not too fast!!)
Last but not least, here is one of my favorite pictures of the week. She's getting ready to punch Dad in the nose. He was probably making fun of her outfit. (There was a diaper incident and those were only clean pants left!)

More Baby Pictures

Maybe one day I'll stop taking so many pictures of Josie. But until then, I'll be posting lots. :) Here are a few of the fun ones this week.

Most babies are propped up sitting down. Josie doesn't like to sit. She likes to stand. And she wedges into the couch so well...

Joslyn was being fussy, so to distract her from crying, Justin took her for a ride in the laundry basket around the house. (Don't worry, it was clean!)

I decided to see how Josie liked drumming. The wooden spoon was the drumstick and my big exercise ball was the drum. She didn't like drumming as much as she like the spoon..

I let Josie play in her crib for a while one morning while I was putting her laundry away. If you look at her hand placement, you can see that she's got her little fingers on the blue button that turns on her fish aquarium thingy. For about 5 minutes, she was turning it off and on. So funny!

Halloween Pictures

I've learned that waiting until Halloween morning to put together a costume isn't the best idea. As a result, Justin and I didn't dress up. But we dressed Joslyn up and went down to Mimi and Papa's house to see all the cousins. It was a lot of fun to see their costumes. Everyone was so cute. Well, except the scary ones. :) Here are some pictures.

cute baby

I know, I've gone post-crazy tonight but I couldn't call it a night without the latest pictures of Joslyn. Nothing to say really except that my baby is stinkin' cute.

Smiles for mom.

Buddha Belly! Finally!

hahaha... :)

New outfit.

With all the finger-sucking she's been doing, Justin and I were wondering if she could fit her whole fist in her mouth. Well, now we know.

Painting Pumpkins

Every year on the Sunday before Halloween, all Justin's family gets together to paint pumpkins. With so many little kids running around, it just isn't practical to carve them and besides, when you paint them you get to do fun pictures and all that. This year Justin did the painting and put together our Mr. Potatoe-head pumpkin. We have some good looking pumpkins!

Videos

I decided to try putting up a couple of videos to see how it works. The first is Josie giggling--too cute! She gets the hiccups whenever she giggles more than once. The second, I just thought was funny, so I had to post it.