Our Family

Thank you for checking us out! We set up this site so you can track our progress to adopt a baby from China. We also added some info about cystic fibrosis and other issues in our little corner of the world.

Friday, July 27, 2007

She's A Genius








This morning Josie started counting...I gave her a chip and said, "One," and she said, "Two...three....four....." I was pretty surprised as we haven't really tried working on this yet, but somehow she's really picked up on it. Later in the day I heard her little voice, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine..." She likes to count when she's alone it seems, as I was upstairs and she was downstairs. Then later at night she was in the back seat and Jim heard her counting to 10, except she forgot 9. She's a little smarty-pants! :-)




Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Our Summer

Well it’s been a long time since we’ve posted anything, but it’s because we’re having a wonderful summer. We’ve spent time with family and friends, and traveled just a bit. Josie is growing so quickly, and learning so much it would be impossible to tell you everything that she’s doing these days. She’s been saying new words every day for about a month now, and it’s so much fun! She’s made her own sentences, and says three syllable words. She is cracking us up all the time. A couple of weeks ago she took mommy’s sunglasses out of the diaper bag and brought them to daddy and said, “I got momma’s glasses!” Yesterday she scolded the baby for throwing food on the floor during lunch: She pointed her little finger at the floor and shook her arm and babbled and scolded “Floor! Floor!” I guess she’s imitating me when I tell her that she’s old enough to know better than to throw food on the floor - oops! She is big into “helping” and often runs to the kitchen to get a towel to clean up messes. She is trying to put on her own shoes and clothes, and she loves to climb, run, and jump. I will make several posts with pictures of our summer below.


Fourth of July


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With Grandma (Jim's mom)

My first horsie ride (on Grandma and Grandpa's minuature horse) I LOVED this horsie and still ask to get "on horse?"

Piano maestro


I am just pretending to sleep because it makes momma laugh! This was my first overnight trip away from mommy: Daddy took me to Green Bay to visit Grandpa. Momma said she's miss me so much, and I reassured her by looking her in the eye, pointing and say, "Back" (meaning "I'll be back," like momma tells me every time she leaves the room.") I had SO much fun with Daddy!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

More of our Summer






She is changing SO much every week, and saying new things every DAY. She is really cracking us up. I will make a few posts with pictures of what we've been doing this summer. Josie has the cutest little voice, and she works hard to pronounce things. She used to say her name as "ditt-da" (which in Finn means little girl, as I know because I've been told not to be a "ba-haaa ditt-da" which means bad girl - no idea of the spelling, just phonetically that's what it sounds like to me.) Anyway, Josie called herself "dit-daa" until about a week ago when she pronounced clearly "Josie." Now she correct her little friends when they don't say it correctly. One of her favorite things to do is look at "Josie Mess!" on the computer...We look at our blog and she names everyone and loves to see the picture of herself making a mess with daddy's instant breakfast. She also loves to "hehp" (help) whether it's putting trash away, wiping off the diaper changing pad, or anything else. She loves to identify whose is whose "Daddy's car, daddy's tractor, mommy's car, Josie's cup." So, she is talking up a storm and making us laugh with her cute antics. It's very helpful too, because the last couple of nights she's half-woken and said, "water!" After I give her a bit of water she falls right back to sleep...before I never wouldn've known what she wanted, even though it makes sense because it's been so humid here and she's sweating a lot. She also says "love you" and identifies dozens of animals and more objects in her "My First" books. Yes, she's a genius we think! The other day I commented to Jim that he and I couldn't have "made" a child as adorable as she is, and he said, "you got that right!" She is definitely the light of our lives!