Nursery In Progress

Bits and pieces of her nursery are coming together and we're so excited to bring it all together. Paint is yet to be decided, still waiting on a chair slipcover and then I hope to have a pretty darn cute room for Josie Pie. The bedding is made with fabric from Sandi Henderson's Farmers Market, we're sooo in love with these fabrics (i'm going to make pillows and a photo board with some of the fabric too! I bought the baskets from Marshalls and spray painted them pink. Ed wasn't too happy about the pink film on everything in the garage, but I'm pretty happy with the baskets, so it all evens out :) I'm planning on one more framed print to make a trio of frames over her crib, but am still pondering what I want in the 3rd frame.


On the other end of the room is her new dresser! This lamp is one of my most favorite purchases for her room. We leave it on all night long, and it illuminates the room with little dots of light - very whimsical and captivating :) The Beatrix Potter collection, along with the bookends are mine from when I was a little girl. I'm so glad my mom saved them all these years. And see that Precious Moment there on the left...? Precious Moments aren't usually my thing, but my dear friend bought this one for us. It's titled "Adopting a Life of Love" with two blonde parents and baby with dark hair!!!!!!!!! How'd they get that so perfect? :) What a treasure, for sure.

More photos to come as we move along in getting the room all decked out. I even spray painted the cutest scallop-edged night table to go next to her rocker. Cute cute cute :) oh, fyi, wonkiness of the photos due to fisheye lens. Frames are hung level :)

Thankful

Thankful takes on an entirely new meaning to us this year. I remember starting 2008 saying this year was going to be a good year. There were some bright spots, and some dark spots - times we started to lose hope that 08 wasn't really going to be all we hoped for. Needless to say, 2008 is a year for the history books for us and I can't wait to spend Josie's first Thanksgiving here at home, as a family of our own!

Catching Up.

Sooo... I needed a few extra days to work on her 2 month photos. And THEN nothing but a cloudy day and a fussy little girl - not an optimal combination for photos, but I'll take what I can get at this point. Last Thursday, Josie's 2 month, was her immunization day, and the day I was up all night with the flu. I haven't had the flu in, in.. , in.. since... well, I can't remember. Suffice to say, Ed rushed home from work to get Josie to her immunizations in time, and I laid in bed all day - with MY MOM here to take care of Josie and to keep me in quarantine. While that kept me down for several days, I just prayed I felt better by Sunday - Josie's baptism day.

Luckily, by Saturday I was at least able to start getting the house cleaned up and things prepared for our families to arrive on Sunday after the baptism. It was stressful pulling it all together, but turned out to be such a lovely day! Ed's dad baptized Josie, wearing my mother in law's baptismal dress from 56 years ago, and wore my baptismal shoes from 28 years ago. She looked beautiful to say the least. What a magnificent day it turned out to be! My dad was the photographer, and I have yet to see the photos, but soon to come!

{almost} 2 Month Checkup

So the doctor says we have a perfect little girl. We already knew that! Officially checking in at 11 lbs, 22.5". He was congratulatory of our success in getting a full nights rest at only 5 weeks. We're not due back to the doctor until her 4 month visit - at which time doc says we'll start talking about introducing baby food. Until then, we are anticipating the "roll over" pretty soon. She's up on her side all day long, it's only a matter of time before it's all the way over. Newborn diapers are officially retired, and FINALLY filling into the 0-3 clothes! In other news, immunizations this Thursday. Yikes. Should be interesting to say the least.

Best of Friends One Day...

Ed and I hadn't seen Nate since the first weekend Josie was home with us... and boy did we miss this little guy. It's hard to believe Josie will be that big one day, and just as cute. While out visiting at my parent's house, we were also thrilled to pickup Josie's new dresser at the furniture store. Her room is really starting to come together, a few other key pieces arriving this week yet.

Baby Snuggles

Could she be any more snuggly? Just before bath time, she's always tough to keep awake... but I don't care because it's just the best snuggling ever! Not to mention, although we have many blankies we love, this is one of our absolute favorites to cuddle and keep warm with.

Goo's and Gaa's

This cracks me up. Josie has really added a lot of goo's and gaa's to her vocabulary this week, so I was trying to catch a little video of it - but instead had to catch Josie from rolling away. Too funny if you ask me, but I think that's my job as mama. And just cute as a button. Not to worry though, she was in no danger of going very far...

good catch from on Vimeo.
and we found a more comfy spot to get some goo's here...

GooGaa from K on Vimeo.

Weekend Update

Completely uneventful weekend. Lounged around the house watching football, napping, bottles, no cooking. Great weekend :) Josie is sleeping a solid 7 hours each night, yahoo!!! And on the weekend Ed gets up with her in the morning so I got to sleep in today. Blissful. Just what I've needed after such a long week of major sinus problems.

Busy Week

It sure has been busy around here this week. Seems like we've been running out just about every day - which has been fun! We went to the bank yesterday and opened Josie her own bank account, have had a few successful trips to the grocery store, and even spent that 70 degree day out at the outlet mall strolling around. The Carter's outlet has the most amazing deals, and Josie is in need of bigger jammies. We walked out with a handful of cute jammies, but alas, I tried them on her and she just swims in them. She's very much between N and 0-3 sizes, darn it ;) I'd love her to be a little peanut forever, but her little bum keeps popping out of her N outfits...hahaha... so once she gets a little bigger she'll stop swimming in the next size up. We also went for a ride into the office this week, all my friends and coworkers have been begging to meet Josie. It was so much fun having her meet everyone. They thought she was ADORABLE, and I couldn't agree more. We even had a chance to weigh her (on our highly calibrated analytical scales ;)) and she weighed almost 11lbs with a clean diaper, onsie and socks! I'd guestimate that means she's right around 10lbs, yet still doesn't quite fit into the next size clothes.

In just the last few days, we've noticed many goo's and gaa's coming from Josie and we laugh every time. Speaking of laughing, J laughs all the time in her sleep. Last night she was in her swing and laughing, smiling and LAUGHING so much that the swing was bouncing up and down. I love a girl that loves to laugh :)

I think that's about it. This weekend Addision is getting baptized, so we'll be going to her celebration tomorrow. Ed is obsessed with getting all the leaves off the grass, so I know Josie and I will have fun watching him from inside the house. I've always been very hands on working in the yard, it's a welcomed change of pace that I have other (more fun) obligations keeping me from yard chores this year!

Dad and Josie needed a nap...

Not much to say this Monday morning. We had a great weekend just bumming around the house enjoying dad being home with us. We're feverishly getting the yard cleaned up for winter, pulling flower beds, mulching leaves - and yes, splitting wood! We have the wood all stacked up and ready to go for the winter. Yesterday was filled with sloppy joes and football - which obviously tired out Josie and Dad ;)

90% Luck/ 10% Technique

Lucky, I know. Ed's been on the night shift for about 4 nights now as I fight off the sinus congestion that has taken over my head and chest. I even went to the doc for some more serious meds. Thus the reason Ed is on night watch, so I can take the meds that will most be able to help, but make me very drowsy. Maybe Josie is giving dada an easy time, maybe it's luck, maybe it's technique - no matter what the reason, we can not believe how LUCKY we are that little Josie slept 8 whole hours last night. EIGHT! I don't claim to have a super human secret to lasting night sleep - but what we're doing has seemed to work. So I give credit 90% to Josie having the best temperment, but maybe 10% credit to our bedtime routine and conscious effort to keep her nights and days balanced.

And I'm moving right along with adding pages to Josie's baby book. I have so many ideas in my head, I can't scrap them fast enough. So here's the story of her name :)

Dad and I had tossed around names that we liked for the last few years. We thought girls names were so easy, and boys names were tough. Even so, we never said “That’s the name if we have a girl!”, but had a list in our minds of possibilities. When we became “paper pregnant” waiting for word from the agency of a match, we said we should get more serious about a name b/c we could get the call any day and be surprised. Yet, we never thought that would really happen, so still – no official girl name. Then the call came. The surprise call on a Sunday afternoon that there was a little girl that was possibly ours. You. From Sunday when we first learned of you, until the time we knew for sure you would be coming home with us, we didn’t even discuss names. The whirlwind of calling friends and family, wrapping up work and getting all the details ironed out consumed our day. It wasn’t until 10pm, Monday night, the night before we were to come bring you home, did dad and I sit down and get serious. We’d tossed around names, like Tessa, Lauren, Isobel… but came back to Joselyn over and over. I’ve long adored the nickname Josie since I met a Josie years ago and never forgot how sweet I thought that name was. Now, I couldn’t picture you having any other name. Dada’s favorite was also Joselyn, and Josie for short. Middle names were more tricky! I wanted something short and cute to sandwich between Joselyn and our last name, and after searching far and wide for the perfect middle name, Ann it was. Ann is a long family middle name, including myself and your Grandma Dorothy to name a few. Joselyn Ann it was to be.