10 posts from June 2009

For the last week or so, Jessie has majorly regressed in the potty training department. She was doing awesome, with maybe 2-3 accidents a week. Recently, we've been lucky if she has gone to the potty once a day. Quite messy and very frustrating to say the least. In an attempt to remedy the situation, we hit up Target today in quest of potty poster making supplies. Jessie picked out some yellow posterboard, some stickers, and foam shapes. After her nap we created the potty poster and hung it up in her room. Hopefully some rewards will entice her to start using the potty again. 

This week we started enjoying the fruits of our labor. Greg and I split the first ripe strawberry. There was only one, but many more are ripening.  Kindof silly to split a strawberry, but we thought it was the only fair thing to do, and Jessie had already gone to bed, so at least we didn't have to share with her. It was soooo good. Night and day between store bought strawberries. Tonight we had stir-fry with our sugar snap peas, green onions, and spinach. Dinner salads should begin very soon. I love the summer!  We also got a whole pig delivered Thursday from a farm up in the Flathead. Yummy. 

I could eat this and Greg wouldn't get any.

Well somehow I managed to erase all the pictures Dad took of Billy and Tia's wedding from our computer, so the actual wedding days will have to wait a bit longer. On Dad's last day in Missoula we went to the children's museum. Grandpa taught Jessie how to be a master fort and castle lego builder during his visit too. She has got stacking them down now and loves playing with them.

Here are a couple of recent photos of Jessie enjoying her pool and tent in the backyard. She loves playing outside and mostly content to drag the hose around watering things and drinking from it and playing with her sidewalk chalk. Throw in a blueberry yogurt popsicle and she's in heaven.

Jessie started another day care last week. Her other one that we loved decided to close for financial reasons, which totally threw us for a loop. We decided on a montessori school this time around that has a 2-year old program in addition to their preschool. She seems to like it (especially the blue swing- swings are her favorite playground thing hands down), but it always takes a while to learn new patterns and get comfortable with her teachers. I can't believe this is the third daycare she's been to in 6 months! Hopefully everything will go well with the new place and she'll be there until kindergarten.

The past few days have been on the cooler side, but it looks like Mother Nature may cooperate for Billy and Tia's wedding this Saturday and warm up a bit. Dad came in last night, and Mark is staying with us too, so it is good family time for Jessie. Mark and Greg left at 630 this morning to squeeze in a road bike ride before Greg has to go to work.  I'll try to be good about taking pictures. Our camera battery is starting to go and keeps dying on us after just a little bit. 

Proud that she can now zip and unzip the door.

Popsicle, bucket, pool- what more could a girl want?

Our internet connection at home has ceased working.  Our internet provider, Bridgemax, is being weasely and not addressing the problem OR allowing us to simply cancel the contract.  So blog posts might be a bit few and far between until we get the problem solved.