What a big little girl!

Last week, Josephine slept through the night 3 nights in a row. We really thought that maybe it was the start to something good. For almost 8 months now, we have been struggling with trying to get Josephine to sleep through the night. It has been exhausting, to say the least!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

To Gigi's house she goes!

After returning to work for 4 days, Steve and I took off on another trip. This time an extended weekend in Disney by ourselves. This was the first time that we left Josephine and it was kinda hard, but it ended up being a nice little break for both of us. We love her so much, but didn't know just how much we needed to recharge our own bateries until we were able to get away. Josephine had a grand time staying with Gigi and spending everyday with her and Grammie.
Meanwhile in Florida, I was running my second 1/2 marathon...the Disney Princess 1/2! Steve played the role of chEARleader and did a mighty fine job of it!
I had to fly straigt to New Orleans from Orlando for work on Monday morning while Steve got to stay and paly at the pool for most of the day before returning home. Nana McRae also flew in on Monday to help Steve during the week while I was away working. Needless to say, Joey was spoiled by both grandmothers for a whole week, I'm not sure what to look forward to on Monday when I am working from home alone with her!

Snow Baby

We had a big snow when we returned home from California and Mexico. It was pretty much the only snow we had this winter. We had a few storms, but never enough to cover the ground completely. I had been waiting and waiting and waiting to introduce Joey to snow and I finally had my chance on Monday, March 2nd. She instinctively stuck out her tongue and started catching snow flakes. I love to watch her experience new things, and I am amazed at how much we are universally alike!

Mama, Dada and other new words!

On Wednesday February 25th Josephine said Mama. In fact it was the only thing she said the whole day! She is absorbing and learning so much, it is amazing to watch. We also learned that she had picked up some sign language in daycare. While in San Diego we thought that she was learning how to wave "hi", but she kept making the hand movement over and over. We started thinking that she might be trying to telling us something and she was. Josephine now signs for "milk" when she wants the bottle. She also signs for milk when she doesn't want the bottle but we are using positive reinforcement to teach her. While we were away last weekend in Disney, she added Dada to her vocabulary too. These words are in addition to "hi" which I am convinced she has been saying since 4 months. And this morning, I'm pretty sure that she said "up" when I laid her down on the bed and she wanted to stand up. She is a fast learner.

International Baby

I know that it has been awhile (ok, a LONG while) since I last posted, but it has been a very busy time for us. We took a nice vacation February 21-28. We went to San Diego to visit our aunts Kim and Kristin on the way to meet up with my company on a Cruise to Mexico. The company I work for turned 10 this year and to celebrate they took everyone on a fabulous cruise to Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico. The cruise left out of San Diego which gave us the perfect opportunity to squeeze in a visit with the Cali girls. We had a nice trip all around. A great time visiting and catching up with Kim and Kristin, good food and wine! The cruise was nice too, better than we expected. It was nice to meet the entire company and their spouses. We have decided that we would like to take another cruise. We are thinking it will be the Disney line, of course!

Josephine is a great traveler. We bought her a seat for the flights there and back and we were so glad that we did. It really helped to have the extra space as she has become quite a wiggle worm. We did have a little accident on the flight out...Josephine had a blow out about 2 hours into a 5 hour flight. Unfortunately, I forgot to pack an extra outfit in the carry on. So she had to fly the rest of the flight in a t-shirt and diaper! Could have been worse...it could have been a one piece outfit and she would have had to gone naked! Live and learn.