A day in the life

I'm trying remember to capture everyday moments while everything else in our lives seems in turmoil. We have to be reminded to pick up the camera because life is still going on and I would sure hate to miss it!

A new era

With this new mobility, we are now briskly ushered into the era of smashed fingers in drawers, bumped foreheads and bit tongues/lips on falling down when standing, and tons of crap eaten off of floors which should not be. But still, it is so cute to walk away and then back and see what she's getting into now.

Nine months & vote for Josie

Luke's latest nickname for Josie is Quata. So, Quata is now 9 months. How quickly time flies! She has gotten extremely mobile in the last few weeks so now she's crawling around and pulling up on things. Time to finish putting in those outlet plugs!

Also, in case you haven't seen my email or FB requests via Rob's account, you can vote for Josie for the Gerber contest, for a chance to win $10,000 towards her college education! You can vote every day between now and September 24th. There are 6 categories (she was entered in the "sitter" category") and there is a winner, determined by voters, for each. There is also a GRAND prize winner, determined by their judges, for $50,000 and a feature in the Gerber ads. Of course, I am positive that we will win because every time I enter any contest I am always sure I will win and truly stunned when I do not. So, let's hope this one is a reality! Of course, Jack started very excited at the prospect of Josie winning and in turn, him receiving a bit of that cash to pay for the rest of the Ipod Touch he is saving for, but NOW he is stressed out that we might win, because of course then we'd be rich and bad guys would hear about us and break in to steal the money and kill us.

You can't make these things up.

So I hope we win but won't die for it.

Here's the link to vote:
https://apps.facebook.com/gerberps/detail.do?entry_id=380772

An example of bad naked

Let me tell you a story. Because, you know my mission of this blog is to continually educate my readers.

I put Josie down for her morning nap, so I figured that would be the best time to sneak in a shower. I brought the monitor in the bathroom, stripped down for the shower as you do, and as I was getting ready to step in to the shower, noticed the screen went dark on the monitor, letting me know the video end was no longer perched on the top of the crib as it should be. Being that it is attached to a cord, I naturally sprinted into Josie's room to be sure it wasn't in her crib. I readjusted the monitor out of her reach, and then crept out into the hallway to spy on her next moves through the crack in the door. Naturally Josie wasn't startled that I came into her room naked after putting her down for a nap, and just rolled with the punches.

As I watched her, I felt like I probably shouldn't get into the shower until she was on he way to Sleepydom and I knew she wouldn't get into any sort of jam requiring my assistance. Being that it shouldn't take long to get to that point, I didn't think I really needed to go the hassle of getting my robe on and all that jazz. No one was home and remember, I live in the country so that's how you can roll out here.

As it got longer and longer into the watching her get sleepy stage, I figured I might was well be productive and work on my grocery list as I was going to be hitting the grocery after she got up. As I made my list, I realized I needed to confirm that I had butter to make my sister's yummy banana french toast casserole recipe in the morning for friends, so I opened the fridge to confirm. That's when a pitcher of lemonade came crashing to the floor spilling everywhere. It is noteworthy that when I placed the lemonade in that spot earlier I thought how much it would suck if it tipped out and spilled everywhere as it was perched a bit precariously on the shelf, but figured it would probably be fine.

Do you remember that episode of Seinfeld where he gets a new girlfriend who likes to do all sorts of things naked, but then he realizes, there are good naked and bad naked things to do? Good naked things might be washing your car with lots of suds, or maybe running your fingers through your hair. Bad naked includes things like operating a jackhammer, or say bending down to clean up a pitcher of lemonade that has sprayed all the way into the next zip code.

So learn from me, my friends. Watch, and learn. It's what I'm here for. This was DEFINITELY a case of bad naked.

Sleepy

Well, I've been sleeping for about an hour and a half so might as well get up and play.

Wait a minute... still feeling a bit sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Editor's Note: She slept like this for half an hour. I woke her up with the picture. They haven't invented stealth cameras yet. But was it worth it to get this photo? Yup. Don't we all feel like sleeping sitting up sometimes? But that damn lack of flexibility gets in the way.

New tricks

Latest trick...to duplicate, you must breathe in and out of your nose quickly and then make this face.

Like.

More fun things

So, maybe the last post was a wee bit heavy. How about tonight we do something light like posting pictures from more fun events over the summer... here we go....

This one is just funny because she always looks like this after you take her out of the tub

Our beach house in Alabama in July

A few cousins enjoying Josie

More fun with cousins

It was somewhere in the vicinity of 174 degrees this day so maybe that's why someone got sooooo sleepy

This picture is just to prove to Josie in the future that I really did exist. The curse of the photo taker of course is that she never appears in photos....

Water park fun



Water park



Josie's first deer meat experience must be documented! A day at the lake with friends.

Yea! I love my first boat ride!

Luke turned 7! Mini golfing with his best buddies.