12 posts from March 2009

"Oh my gosh"

Mar 31, 2009
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Jessie listens to every word we say and it amazes us how much she absorbs. Yesterday she started going around saying "Oh my gosh, Sammy so dirty." This morning it's, "Oh my gosh, Mary" (her little finger puppet) as she rocks with Mary on the rocking horse. At least it's not worse.

She is very into caring for her various stuffed animals. She just came up to me and said that Mary and Lamby wanted some stickers. Now she is busy putting them all over Mary and Lamby. Pinky the elephant had to sit in her mini-hairchair with us while we were eating dinner last night, complete with food and milk on her tray. She spends a lot of time laying them all out just so, covering them up, and then giving them each a book to read or a toy to play with. It's very amusing to watch and gives a picture into her mind about her perspective on things.

Apparently she has quite the vocabulary and is a very good talker for her age. She just started at a new day care last week and her teachers gush about how well she talks and how fun it is to have a conservation with her. I think so too, and I miss her those 3 days I'm not around her.

Cleaning up the brownie mess

Getting after it

Nasty

Mar 29, 2009
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Enough

March is nasty. Every year it's the same...an early tease of nice spring-like weather, melting the snow, causing the Crocuses to bloom, and allowing fools like me to start preparing their garden. Then comes the cold wet windy snow. Not the silent, peaceful, dry, fluffy, crisp snow of January. A saturated 30 degrees is way colder than a dry crisp 15. Especially when you are as sick of winter as I am.

Little warrior lunch

Mar 29, 2009
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New dress from Courtney (pockets are cool)

Jessie loves to paint her face at the Children's Museum and then come home and eat lunch on the back porch. The last few birthday packages straggled in this week and Jessie is now all about checking the mail.

Sprouts

Mar 26, 2009
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Lettuce on the right, spinach on the left

Lettuce, spinach, basil, and one sunflower have sprouted. That is some exciting stuff in March in Montana when you are looking outside at nothing but snow and mud.

This past Saturday, Jessie woke up in a particularly good mood, so we had a little dance party before heading out into the nice weather. Check out her moves here.

Spring is here (for now)

Mar 22, 2009
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Yesterday was really nice - in the 50s with partial sun. I had my first really good bike ride since November - dry trails and no frostbite. And we got about half of the sod cut out for the garden. We started some lettuce, onions, spinach, basil and sunflowers inside and they are popping up. AND - the dogs took their first river swim of the year. They went crazy - we found a really good stick and they fetched it until they were about dead. The water was freezing - there is still snow on the bank - but the current isn't too fast yet as snowmelt really hasn't started. I'm sure winter will make a couple more appearances before it's all over, but the end is near.

St. Patrick's Day cheese

Mar 17, 2009
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Here we are in all our green sweaters for St. Patrick's Day. I finally finished Greg's sweater and also lengthened Jessie's sleeves just in time. Tonight I'm redoing the bottom of Greg's because we don't like it, but it was good enough to wear today. Jessie was confused because I was forcing her to wear her hat and jacket while we wearing playing outside, but then made her take them off for the picture.

St. Patty's Day green

Flying

Weightless

Choo-choo Jessie's 2!

Mar 15, 2009
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Jessie had a fun-filled birthday yesterday. She got to open some presents first thing when she woke up, including a big-girl tricycle with pedals from us and some packages that had come in the mail. Armed with a new bike and sidewalk chalk, she wanted to go outside immediately. Next came a few rides on the carousel and watching the St. Patrick's Day parade. She quickly got the hang of picking up candy and wanted to eat it all. She even caught some beads. She actually wanted to wear her crown the whole morning. It was very cute and got her a lot of candy.

While she napped, I made her birthday cake. She requested a vanilla cake with a train and Elmo on it. I skipped Elmo, but she didn't seem to notice. The train was already pushing my icing skills. The cake came out of the oven 'whompy' according to Greg, but a little cutting here and there leveled it and with a bunch of icing, no one could tell. Boppie, Billy, and Tia came over for dinner and cake and she had fun opening more presents.

Jessie ignores the classic cars to focus on her sucker

Chillin' in my new lawnchair Boppie gave me

Almost 2

Mar 12, 2009
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Jessie has been enjoying getting birthday cards and presents this week. She reads her cards and says, "happy 2nd brithday Jessie" over and over. She doesn't know what it means exactly, but she knows it means presents and attention.

Greg's grandmother sent her a book that Greg's grandfather got when he was 4. She loves it. She likes having her 'book of the day' in the crib with her when she goes to sleep, but since it's 82 years old, we keep having to hide it right before bed.

Legos!

Nothing like a good book.

Hamburgers yummy!

Mar 10, 2009
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We ignored the fact that it was blowing snow and freezing outside on Sunday and grilled up some hamburgers. Jessie shares my love of pickles and asked to drink the pickle juice. Greg and I looked at each other in amazement because when I was younger I would drink cups of the stuff. We didn't honor her request.

I'm very happy to report that the potty training is going great. Jessie hasn't had an accident since Friday! She's becoming quite adept at peeing and pooping, even went once at a friend's house. We still have to work on the day care and at nights, but she's come a loooonnnnggg way in the past few weeks. I'm so proud of her!

Sleeeve!!

Mar 8, 2009
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Yesterday, after Jessie had been in her room napping for about 1 and 1/2 hours, we hear "Sleeeeve!! Sleeeve!" on the monitor. Below is what we found upon walking in there - her arm had somehow popped out of the neck hole of her shirt.

Also pictured below is the new sink and faucet I put in the kitchen yesterday. I am REALLY glad that I don't plumb for a living. I think Jessie probably learned some new words yesterday.