Outside Fun...

This picture is of Jo walking around the block. She started walking up the street from our house and I was like whatever, I followed her and let her... little did I know she was planning on going around the whole block, all on her own! Well.. I mean I was with her but I just let her guide herself and she went completely around the whole block, and if you know our street... it's pretty long so going around the block is a pretty big feat for a 15 month old! As we passed our neighbors on the way home, just 1 house away from ours!, she just sat on the ground haha poor baby was tired!

Here is a picture of the Minnie Mouse ears Jo got from her cousin who just got back from Disney Land! Check out the back!...



Jo's not big into her stuffed animals, which is a shame because she has so many!!! She likes them but not as much as I used to love stuffed animals as a kid haha so I took all the ones out of her toy box (this represents about 80% of her total stuffed animal population) and just lined them up next to the couch in an attempt for her to remember they exist...








It worked!

Wicked Funny Videos...

Here is a video of Jo outside yesterday, this is what she was doing every time a car went by.

I love how she gets up in anticipation, the yells "DADA!" then she sits down because she realizes it's not his car haha towards the end I think she realizes his car is actually in the driveway! haha

And this is my absolute favorite video, the funniest thing about this is that she was doing it for about 10 minutes straight before I started recording haha (note the huge pile of tissues on Rob's desk)

Underwear!

When we moved into our new room we gave Jo what was Rob's dresser. We bought a few other things to compensate for the lost storage space for clothes but it's still a tight fit! So I've had to put all my underwear in the bottom 2 drawers of my night stand, which has drawers that are extremely easy for Jo to open so she constantly is taking all my underwear out haha hey... whatever will give me a few minutes! So here is what I found on 2 separate instances today...



haha! man... I was laughing so hard!

Here is another picture that makes me laugh. Yesterday me and Rob made ourselves some wraps and ofcourse Jo wanted some, so I wrapped a piece of ham and cheese up in the whole grain tortilla bread and she sat on the couch and just ate it, I don't know why this cracks me up so much! haha In this picture the wrap is about half the length it was when she first started...

At The Playground!

Today we went to the playground!



Jo loves to run around the baseball field next to the playground. This is also the first time Jo has worn her winter coat that her great grandmother got her! It's from OshKosh B'Gosh and I like it because she'll fit into it next winter too! (note the sleeves rolled up)













And here is my little raisin addict... seriously, she is an ADDICT! I take out the container to give her some but she just takes the whole thing and she'll sit down with it and just eat.. and eat.. and eat... She eats handfuls of them too! She just stuffs them in her mouth haha She also bangs on the cabinet they are in and goes "more! more!"

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Today was a very, very, very difficult day. First of all, I'm SICK. And I have made it my full time job to try and make sure Jo does not get sick too, because that is the last thing she needs. She is teething SOOOO bad, she spent most of day just hysterically crying. Nothing helps, not Motrin, not Tylenol, nothing... So dealing with that while soooo amazingly exhausted because I have not slept in... I can't even remember how long and feeling as horrible as I did today... yeah, not fun. The only pictures I have were taken in the first 2 hours after Jo woke up which was the only time she was even remotely happy...

Jo walked out of her bedroom like this:


In the first picture she is laughing at me because I was laughing soooo hard hahaha

Then she decided she prefers just one...


And here is just the cutest picture ever. Jo is such a girly girl, she LOVES her babies!

Hello All!

Not much has been going on around here. It's been raining like CRAZY. I couldn't believe how hard it was raining today, I went outside at one point (just to put something in the recycling bin, the area is covered by roof) and the sound was deafening!

Jo is still teething like a MANIAC. Motrin or Tylenol hardly even helps her right now. I gave her Motrin before bed last night, because it was quite obvious her gums were hurting real bad right before bed, and she slept just fine up until 12:30 in the morning. From there on out she'd wake up every 5 or 10 minutes just hysterically crying. She'd go right back to sleep once I gave her her soothie and patted her back a little but it just kept happening and happening, sometimes she'd fall right back to sleep without me even doing anything... it was like she wasn't even really waking up just crying. But still, not a good nights sleep by any means for both her or me!

Here are some pictures from yesterday of me tickling Jo on the bed, of course she is sporting some of her favorite jewelry haha




We were outside and sitting on the wall next to the fence that surrounds our front lawn and Jo kept poking her cute little head through. I wanted to take a picture so bad but in order to keep her from falling 4 feet onto a cement driveway I had to stick my camera through the fence and take a picture without looking, here is the best one I got!


I got a bunch of Carter's PJs at Costco for like $7!!! I LOOOOOVE fleece, footed, Carter's PJs! haha I got them in 2T so they are HUGE. If you are a fellow mommy you probably know that Carter's is very true to size so when I say 2T you know they're pretty big! I didn't think Jo would even be able to walk but she can, they're REALLY baggy but as long as her foot is in the footie part she's fine.




Okay... are you guys ready for this? INTRODUCING.... JOSEPHINE "THE CLIMBER" BELLIVEAU'S NEW TRICK! hahaha






She's always loved playing on the couch, she loves playing with the big back cushions and going behind them and all that. Of course I stay right with her when she does this and today I saw her start to use the big cushions as steps (hence why they're so messy looking, which I can't stand!) and I watched her as she maneuvered her way into doing THIS! haha I couldn't believe it! She loved standing up there and looking at the rain out the window, she stayed there for a LONG time! Except, I might have created a monster... everytime she goes on the couch this is what she goes straight for! haha