The end to another weekend :(

We had a nice week last week. Grammie came down on Monday and watched Joey while I got to work from home semi-undistributed. The rest of the week was pretty routine. Josephine has been doing pretty well sleeping. She has been going down between 7:30-8pm and usually gets up just once between 3-4am. What makes that even better, is that Steve has started getting up with her during the night a few times during the week. I am still nursing but we are also doing formula, probably about 80% nursing/20% formula. I still enjoy nursing and having that special cuddle time with her, and when we are home or in our office it is great, however, out and about...you can't beat the convenience of giving her a bottle (especially since she is learning to hold it herself). I like to get out and having more than 2 hours at a time out of the house is worth a bottle here and there!

Josephine has gotten great at sitting up. She can now sit up in her pack-n-play for a long time before falling over. She has even started riding in the front of the shopping cart when we go to the grocery store as well as sitting in the restaurant high chairs! These two things are making it so much easier to get out and do things with her.

I know that I have been a bit behind with new photos so I am going to paste some of the recent ones here in this post. Enjoy!

This is her after breakfast one morning. The highchair was perfect for holding her thumb in place for a quick nap.

We bought this for her before we even "knew" her from a tot-swap. I fell in love with it when I saw it. We tried it out for the first time this week when Grammie came over. She doesn't get the rocking motion, but I'm sure it would be easier on the hardwood floor.

This is a toy that Nana McRae got us. It is a HUGE hit! It has a different activity on every side and while she has only mastered a few of them, she loves to play with this toy.

Here she is wearing her first pair of shoes! The "Shoe Fairy" (aka Aunt Zoe) is making she that her wardrobe is complete. She didn't really know what to make of them, but she didn't cry and kick them off...that is a start.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing everyone lots of love today and everyday!

I'm too cute for this dress!

I know that Josephine is cute, I know that she is the cutest baby in the whole world...but I'm her mommy so I'm supposed to think that. What always amazes me is how many other people out there think the same thing. Everywhere I go people stop me to talk about her, people give us second looks, and those that don't stop...I hear them talking about her as they walk by. Just tonight within 2 minutes of walking into the grocery store I had a crowd of 5 gathered around her admiring her. I think that it is the flirty smile that she gives everyone. I see the way that she looks at people and draws them in. The funniest thing is when she turns her charm on and the recipient doesn't notice her (the bag boy at the store tonight)...she keeps smiling and flirting and looking and I can see in her face the disappointment that there is someone out there that is not engaging her.
We have been very busy since our last post. We spent half a week in Arizona without Daddy. I had to go for work and took Joey with me. She flew very well and was the hit of the plane (or at least the few rows around us). The flight attendant said she could fly with her anytime and one guy told me that he would have kids if they were guaranteed to be just like her. I could make a fortune if I bottled her charm! We had a nice time in Scottsdale. Our friend Ron and his wonderful wife Shannon and their 4 fabulous children; Havana, Kayden, Jenna and Ashlin were most gracious and let us stay at their house. It was much nicer than a hotel and they even provided a pack-n-pay, highchair and exersaucer! Shannon watched Joey during the day while I went into work, and Josephine really enjoyed playing with the other kids.
We had our first 1st birthday party last weekend. Our friend Nolan turned 1. There were lots of friends born last year, so we expect it to be a busy year of 1st birthday parties. We also have two more friends arriving this year, so now that I think about it...it will probably be a busy few years of birthday parties! We also had a few visits with Gigi and Grammie, in fact Grammie is coming down tomorrow too. We enjoy the company and it is nice for me to work while they entertain and bond with her.
We have been doing well on the food front. So far she likes apples, carrots and butternut squash in addition to rice cereal. She loves to gnaw on pizza crust too! She doesn't like pears and is not quite sure about Cheerios. Tomorrow we are going to try bananas and later this week we will move on to sweet potatoes.
Today we went and got some photos taken at Sears. Here are two of the shots from today. She was a great subject, but got a bit fussy after the 3rd outfit change. We didn't get a ton of shots, but the ones we got were good.