Happy short work week!

I'm so glad that it is a 3 day work week. I am even happier that it is Thanksgiving on Thursday, it is may all time favorite meal! Steve took this week off, so he watched Joey today while I worked from home, it was nice to get so much done.

This past weekend we started celebrating Christmas. We put up the "disney" tree in the master bedroom and got Josephine a new toy. We had been talking about getting her an exersaucer for a few weeks now and we finally bit the bullet this weekend. So far, she is overwhelmed by all of it, but is starting to really like it.

Wednesdays are the loneliest days

Sorry again for leaving you hanging for a week without a single update. Wednesdays seem to be the magical day when I remember that I need to reach out and update the world on what has been going on in our little corner of it. Why Wednesday? Because it is the first day of the week that Josephine goes to "school". I miss her like crazy on Wednesdays; I even watch videos of her and look at her pictures while I am in the office. This blog is therapeutic in that way...it helps me get through my Wednesdays.
This weekend training for the Princess 1/2 marathon official started with a 3 mile jog. Sunday we were back at Trimble's visiting with her and our good friend Amalie who is in town for a few days. Josephine also had her first trip to Ikea over the weekend. This week so far has been low key...she slept almost all day Monday and then came into the office with me on Tuesday.
Big milestone: Last night she slept for over 8 hours for the first time ever!

Cut it out

Last night we had another first...the first diaper blowout so bad that the onesie had to be sacrificed and we cut Josephine out of it. Oh the mess that this little girl can make!
Today we are writing from our good friend Trimble's house. She has had to take some time off of work this week so we came down today to keep her company. Right now everyone is taking a nap except for me (always seems to be the case).

Hump day catch up

I can not believe that I have let so many days pass without posting. We have been very busy. Josephine seems to be doing much better and Steve and I are continuing to fend off her cold. They had some good bonding time on Saturday and I got to take a nice long nap, which was heaven sent! Steven had to go into work on Sunday so Gigi came down and spent the day with us. She was gracious enough to help us pick up a bit since Grammie was coming down on Monday.

Grammie spent Monday night with us and got some alone time with Joey while I went into the office to work on Tuesday morning. She is so fantastic to have around, not only good company and a great help with Joey...but she cleaned my entire kitchen, did the laundry and swept the porch. She is also heaven sent!

Today is a "school" day for Josephine. They report to us that she is a very independent little girl and would rather spend time by herself than be held. I'm not quite sure that they have connected to her. While I agree with her being independent, she gets that from me :), she comes alive when you talk to her and give her attention and plenty of people in my office hold her and I have yet to see her complain.

Ready for the weekend

We have no big plans for this weekend, but I am ready to have Steve around and getting some down time. Josephine is now on medicine to treat her congestion and I have been blessed with her cold. However, the pharmacist says that I shouldn't take anything because I am still breastfeeding. So while Joey gets better, I remain sick. Have I mentioned that I think this is the curse of daycare!
The weather here is gorgeous today to I took this last opportunity to dress Joey her is cute little jean skirt from the GAP. I hope that the kids get to go outside today, I'm 90% sure that they won't take the babies out...but she just loves to look at the trees. So this is my hope for her.
Big developmental news this week...Josephine grabbed her foot yesterday. We are continuing to work on sitting in the bumbo and we actually got her to sit in the highchair this week as well. She also has gotten better about grabbing toys and actually holding on to them. She is getting so big and changing so much.

Just another day

Back in the office again today but Joey is at school (aka daycare). I had to go have bloodwork done this morning for my diabetes and while I was there I got the call from Steve that daycare was down to one bag of boob milk. I was glad that I was still close to home and that Steve had done the drop off this morning...I would have been kinda upset had I driven all the way there and had to turn around go home and then come back. But it all worked out perfectly, cause I got to see Josephine again before going to work. She looked a little sad sitting in the swing, but smiled really big when I came over and started talking to her. There were a ton of kids there today and all the older kids were sitting in the toddler area (literally 5 feet from the nursery) singing nursery rhymes. From what I could see there were only 3 infants there, one in the exersaucer, one being held and Joey in the swing. She was sucking her thumb and looking sad, but focused on the singing. I knew that she wanted to be part of the group. She is a very social little girl and enjoys singing and nursery rhymes. My heart melted and if could have stayed there all day, I would have. I know that I don't spend every minute giving her attention when she is with me on the days that I work from home, but to see her not getting much attention at daycare made my heart hurt. I know that I only saw 5 minutes of her day and I am sure that she gets a ton of attention while she is there. She also needs to learn that she can't have every one's undivided attention 24/7. While I know these things to be true, it doesn't make it any easier to take when she has that sad look on her face. The good news...I get to pick her up from "school" today. I can't wait to see that smiling face again, it is the highlight of my day.

Weekend Recap

We went to the cornmaze on Saturday with Gigi. It has been an annual tradition with Kyle and I and when Steve moved back from St. Louis he started coming too. We always do girls against boys and Steve usually wins, this year was no exception. Joey had her first hay ride on Saturday as well as went down her first slide.

Sunday we had a nice lunch with our friends Liz, Shane and Maggie. They got to meet Joey for the first time and it was nice to hang out and drink Mimosas. Not drinking for over a year has not been hard, but from time to time I do miss the occasional cocktail.

Monday we worked from home and went to the pediatrician as the cold seems to have gotten a bit worse and is causing severe congestion. Today we did our patriotic duty and voted and now we are in the office working (I'm working, she is sleeping). This afternoon we are going to try and meet up with our friend Brooke for free Starbucks and Krispy Kreme for anyone who voted.

Happy Halloween!

We hope that you had a safe and fun one. Back in the pre-Joey days, Halloween on a Friday night was big...a great excuse to party. This year we dressed her up and took her over to our neighbors house and then brought her home, undressed her and spent the rest of the night handing out candy and watching tv. She had a special Halloween onesie she wore to daycare too. It was sad to look at these two articles of clothing and think...one at least got a full days wear in, but the other saw it's 15 min of fame and then it is done, she'll never fit into it again. Do we keep it for the second child or pass it on to someone else?

She slept all day at daycare yesterday and had a slight fever when she came home. She has been very congested lately as well. I hope this is just a small cold at that is passes quickly. A lot of people told me that she would get sick as soon as she went into daycare, but I didn't believe them, could they all have been right?

Today we are off to the corn maze with Aunt Gigi, weather should actually be nice. I'll let you know how it goes.