Welcome to my first blog!
This month has flown so quickly..
Josie is now almost day trained! She still has a few accidents at kindy and occasionally at home, but more often than not, she goes through the entire weekend just coming and telling us that she needs to use the toiley.
She is also speaking really well now. She is telling us about kindy, and her friends at kindy (apparently she has a boyfriend called Mark?! or Conner?! Or BOTH!??!).
We continue to be busy almost every weekend, with friends and family coming over all the time. Josie is loving having people around all the time and is becoming very much the social butterfly ;-)
With the warmer days I am finally able to put her in shorts and skirts and singlet tops, which is great. And we can hit some parks and other outdoor activities ;-)
We have swimming lessons every Saturday, and last weekend after the lesson, my sister Vika and Josie's cousin Rebecca met us at the pool and we had a great time swimming for a few hours. I am so happy with how much she has progressed in the water. When we first started swimming this term she cried for a while but then stopped. Last weekend she didnt cry once. And not only that, she was going under water with no problems, and no tears and was swimming with a back bubble for a stroke or two from person to person. She had a ball and her water confidence just completely shot up.
After the pool my cousin Anna and her son Jayden came over for lunch and the kids had a great time running around, screaming and playing.
We also tried the beach last weekend with Josie's good friend Stacey and her parents. It was unfortunately a big bust ;-) We made the mistake of putting sun cream all over her, which she then rubbed into her eyes and then spent the next few hours rubbing and rubbing cause her eyes started stinging from it. And then we went down to the sand, and of course she got sand on her hands, and then rubbed her eyes and then it was all over.. lol.. after a lot of tears we finally admitted defeat and packed up and went home ;-)
At home we all had a shower, which was great cause she HATES the shower, but I made Tony get in there with us and he held her, and eventually she started to relax and have fun. The Tony and Josie jumped in the bath and she had a lovely time in there.
I am now being punished for all the years I made Josie dance in the car. Whenever we had music on she would flap her arms around and bop her head and I would encourage that by telling her "Josie are you dancing?" and "Josie dancing!". Well! The last few times in the car she has been telling ME to dance! And Tony keeps saying this is punishment, and keeps laughing and saying "Dance Monkey Dance!". So the other day Josie comes out with "Dance Monkey!". Well we all just burst out laughing! And I'm sitting in the front waving my arms around!!
On a not so nice note, we have had a few weekends with Josie ending up in our bed sometime through the night. More often than not its because of a nightmare, last night cause her nappy leaked and I couldnt be bothered changing the sheets at 3am ;-) She has even been able to tell me what her nightmares were about (scary boys!!).
We have had some trouble again getting Josie to go to bed at night. First of all she will only go with Tony. If I try to get her into bed she throws a massive tantrum. And then Tony is having to stay there with her while she falls asleep. Usually he will leave before she actually falls asleep, and then she goes off herself. It could be worse, I know, but ahh the good old days when we would just leave her in her bed and leave.. ;-)
We have two big milestones to go.. the dummy, and the toddler bed.
Josie is still in her cot and we dont think she is ready yet for the bed yet but I am hoping once she turns 3 in January, it might be a goer. And maybe we might throw in the dummy weaning too ;-) Ack, I dont even wanna think about it ;-)
And some exciting (and slightly scary) news..
We have booked a couple of holidays!
First in January, we are going away for a week with Vika and Rebecca. I can't say where cause Becka doesn't know and she will most likely read this blog!! ;-) This will be heaps of fun and Josie will have a great time with her cousin ;-)
And then next September (10 months, I know, but we had to book frequent flyer seats) we are going for a week to Hawaii and then a week to LA to visit my girlfriend Harri who I went to school with, and miss greatly. Now thats the scary part, cause 9 hours on the plane with a 3.5 yr old is gonna be shocking ;-) Then 8 hr internal flight to LA, and then 14 hrs LA to Sydney. ACK! But its gonna be such a great experience ;-)
We are having our annual Tree Trimming Day on Dec 11th where we get together with friends and put up the Xmas tree and decorations and give out some of the presents. Im really excited this year cause I ordered a heap of toys from Josie's kindy's fund raising toy catalogue and hopefully it will all be here by then. Lots of stocking fillers this year, and Josie is at an age where she finally understands the concept of presents and opening them so it will be so much fun ;-)
And I think thats all I can think of! This has been a looong update!
Till next month!
Mari
ps. New photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/josiephotos/ ! Ive moved my photos from yahoophotos to flikr. Its bloody brilliant! Tony put me onto it! Please leave a comment if you want!
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