Things Josie said that made me smile this week...

"Lets stop and think about this" I told her it was bath time, apparently she was prepared to negotiate.

"Its a long long drive to my Grandma's house" heard repeatedly every time we get in the car, despite the fact that we have not been nor are we planning to go to Grandma's house.

"Marie smells, she smells a lot".

"Why do you nurse Marie ALL the time?"

And last night, totally made my day: "Thanks Mom for the food you made us". Schlachter sausage & mac-n-cheese makes everybody happy.

Marie

This is a pretty recent video, I took this Wednesday morning. She's really getting big, she loves being on her tummy. I think we'll have a crawler soon, she's almost better at rolling/scooting on the floor than she is sitting!

Josie the photographer....

Josie had the camera the other day and had a ton of fun taking some "shots". It's sort of fun to see the world from her viewpoint.







Ready for her closeup....



Silly face...

Video of Marie from end of August

Bigger and bigger....

Our girls are getting bigger and bigger all the time. It's amazing how fast the time goes! Some fun phrases heard this week from Josie: I need a popcicle to warm me up. Upon seeing a picture of a skeleton "That person has no skin, I have skin. I have lots and lots of healthy skin". "My tummy tells me that it's time for lunch".


She's starting to get the hang of sitting up, still not there but getting closer!








This is like one of those hidden image pictures, can you find the baby?









She's posing... still cute though.









Marie is getting better at scooting in her walker all the time. She get's very proud of herself!









"Look Mom, I'm doing it!!!!"

Messy!

Do you think she likes it?

More pics

Josie on the merry-go-round at Chase County Fair. She had a blast, lots of rides and way to much cotton candy. She's into this goofy smile phase too, hence that oddball smile in the pic :)





Playing together...










Josie hamming it up and modeling a bracelet my sister Marika made for her.








Marie sporting her bracelet... and her CSU t-shirt. Sadly, they let us down yesterday loosing to the dirty hippies down in Boulder...









Hanging out (one of the few photos where I actually caught Marie smiling).

August pics....

Saturday morning cartoons...










Marie's first taste of "real" food. She has been eating cereal (rice or oatmeal) for awhile, so we stepped it up and added some baby food. She's doing great. First she tried squash, since then we've done sweet potatos, peaches, green beans, carrots, pears, and applesauce.



A diva...










One day, just for fun, Josie and I made a princess cake. It was a chocolate chip cake with purple frosting, pink and purple sprinkles and chocolate chips. It was so sweet it made you sick, but, it looked good and we had fun making it!






Josie "reads" to Marie a lot. This is a pretty common occurance, although sometimes Marie grabs the pages and Josie gets mad.

Josie "ism's" and more....

I haven't written to update on the girls stats much, so I thought I'd steal the time to do that today. This is partly so that I have things written down and when I look back I can remember. Summer is winding up for us here, Luke finished cutting millet yesterday so they'll start picking that up in a few days. I can't believe the summer is nearly over, it really flew by!

Josie is amazing. She really blows me away. Her grasp of things is continually evolving, and she understands things above what I think that she does. She also really thinks about things and it makes for some pretty funny statements from her at times. I have been told recently:

"Don't yell at me or you'll get in trouble with my Daddy." Apparently he is the White Knight. I was not aware of this, but I guess it is so. And here I thought he was the stricter disciplinarian out of the two of us....

"You try being the Josie, it's not easy Mommy!" Told to me when she was in trouble for not listening.

"I'm too tired to take a nap."

"We went to the doctor, and our baby just popped out." *sigh* if only it were actually so easy...

More and more often I also hear the phrase "When I was little..." She is getting so big! She also will watch a toy commercial and say "I wish I could have that" which is new. Before she didn't seem to notice, now she knows that we can go and get things that she sees on TV. Hooray.

Marie is doing great, eating cereal like a champ. She actually was going through 2 4oz feedings a day and nursing before and after so about 2 weeks ago (she was 5.5 months) I started including a little baby food with the cereal just to give her a bit more. She is so hungry all the time I'm having a hard time keeping up! So far, she's done squash, sweet potatoes, green beans, and apple sauce. She hasn't had any of it straight, I've been mixing it with cereal, but so far I haven't seen her having any trouble. She also doesn't seem quite as ravenous now, which is a good thing.

Josie's stats:
Fave toy- Bunny (still)
Fave color- purple (still)
Fave TV show- Dragon Tails
Fave Food- ice cream or German pancake
Fave Song- "Mother" by Danzig (totally blows me away)
Fave Book- Fancy Nancy












Marie's Stats:
Fave toy- whatever is soft and nearby
Fave color- green (because Josie asks me all the time what her favorite color is, so I keep telling her that's what it is)
Fave TV show- n/a
Food- so far she's liked the applesauce best
Fave Song- anything playing. She likes to be danced around with though.
Fave Book- whatever Josie is reading, so, it's probably Fancy Nancy.

Swimming lessons

Josie did swim lessons this summer for the first time. They ran for three weeks, and she loved every day of it! I was sort of hoping that she would make friends with a few little girls through the process, but once again it was Josie and a bunch of boys. Out of the 5 kids in her class she was the only girl! She holds her own though:)

Recent photos

Luke loves this picture.... Marie likes shiney things.









Marie, Luke, & Josie at wedding our good friends wedding. Josie was the flower girl and did an awsome job, she had a blast. Luke and I were in the bridal party (hence the John Deere tee, it was a themed wedding).




Marie passed out in her crib and pulled the blanket over her face to sleep. It cracked me up, because, Josie used to do the exact same thing.





Josie and Max, the ringbearer. They were a lot of fun together.









Marie enjoying an ice cube. She's a huge fan of anything water, and will drink water from Jo's sippy or Luke's cup. Her favorite though is an ice cube!

Harvest 2007 cont....

Luke driving the combine...










Deer crossing the road by Webber's.










Storm rolling in from the west on Webber's.

Harvest 2007

As most of you know, this year was a blessing, wheat was much better than recent years. Josie loved riding in the combine, and Marie, well, she screamed a lot. Mostly because she hates her car seat. Luckily that seems to be passing. Here are some photos, though I can't take credit for them all. The man we hired to drive grain cart took some really beautiful shots so I thought I'd share them with all of you!


Beautiful Josie....










Daddy and Marie...










Happy girl on the grass at Steve's one night after I brought dinner out to the guys.











Old sprinkler just north of Dutton's.











The old red truck...

Updates, because I'm a slacker.... July pics of the girls

Wow, can you believe the summer is half over already? We're finished with harvest, and both girls are growing like crazy. Josie is awsome, really learning her letters right now, and into writing things down. Marie is teething, found her feet, and changing daily. They're both a ton of fun!

Napping in style, GO RAMS!










Marie is now on rice cereal, and finally starting to "chub" out a bit. She definately loves to eat, though that probably runs in the family!












Watching movies in Mom & Dad's room.

Rain, and then some more rain.

The angle highway...

7 mile road, just north west of Linhart's. This field sits about 4 feet lower than the road does, to give you an idea of how deep that water is.
I'm not completely sure where this is...
Dutton ground, Luke had a terrible time with this wash when we harvested off that field a few days ago. There was about a foot of debrie laying on top of the wheat on the edges of where the "crick" was.
Railroad tracks by Amherst, washed out underneath.
Smith ground, up by Amherst.