She is monpolizing our lives

Last night Dean and Josie had a little conversation. He is such a good dad.

Today Dean babysat Josie for four hours, and they both lived. He fed her twice and changed his first diaper ever! I got to go to a Super Saturday and make crafts and bows.

Josie is getting so strong and starting to love her bumbo.

There is no question when she gets tired of holding up her head.

Last week I went to get Josie's pictures taken, it was a disaster. She cried, I cried, we were both sweating and not very happy with the results. So I tried again today. Not professional but there was no crying and it took 8 minutes instead of 4 hours.

Josie sleeps with her little bum in the air as high as she can get it. I love it.

I spend ALL day and ALL night with this little girl and I don't even have proof so I made Dean take this picture, and he made fun of me then he did it.

Josie found her hands and I'm loving it.

When I was pregnant my mom told me that in three months I would really love my baby and be happy. I thought she was crazy and was sure I would love my baby from the start. The first two days I really did. Labor was easy, she was adorable and I was happy. Then I took her home. She and I both cried for a solid month. Then we found her body couldn't digest the proteins in cows milk. We started her on acid reflux medicine and soy formula and things got a lot better. but she was still really fussy and high maintenance, nevertheless; we made it through a second month. Now we are almost through the third month and she is getting so fun. She is still a little fussy and defiantly has a strong personality (I'm not sure but that probably didn't come from Dean). I have always loved her but I'm finally really starting to like her. People say to enjoy the stage your in and I think I will start doing that now.

Dean thinks Josie is bi-polar. When he talks to her she will coo and smile and without warning this lip will come out and the crying begins.

Josie at two months.
She is still very small, at her two month appointment she weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces. The Dr. was okay with that, but I was not pleased. She was not eating good so he told me to mix more formula than water so if she ate less she still got the calories.

Josie hates the car seat. She always has. We even traded our new one for a different one, didn't help. She will scream in her car seat the entire time she is in it. We have only tested this theory for a max of 2.5 hours. Long I know but that is how long it takes to go from my parents to target to our house. It was terrible. You would think her little body would give in and fall asleep but not her, if she doesn't like the idea she will not settle. When I go to Utah I have to leave at 6 am, this is the only time I can get her to sleep in the car. I can't wait till she grows out of this stage. I don't really know if it is so much not going places that is hard for me, or just the idea of knowing I can't go; either way I hate it. The thing that is really hard is it takes over an hour to get to a semi-decent store from my house, and that a long time to cry.

The other day I called the police department, I went something like this...

Me: Hi, can I talk to someone about a citation?

Officer: Did you get one?

Me: No, but I'm probably going to.

Officer:What?

Me: Well I'm calling to see how much a ticket is for not having your child in a car seat, do you know how much that would be?

Officer: Well Mam, I it could cost you a life.

Me: Yes I'm aware of that but how much would the ticket cost?

turns out he didn't even know, but he thinks its a bad idea and very dangerous. Apparently he doesn't know how dangerous it is to drive with a screaming baby. I'm a little surprised he didn't ask for my address so he could just mail me a ticket. 10/07/09

I got a love letter! I'm a lucky girl...

I woke up to the sweetest letter Dean had written me before he went out to work. I got butterflies.

UTAH...
I love to go to Utah, I go there A LOT, and I plan to keep doing it. Dean is so good to take me home to see my family.

Our last visit we went to a haunted house and the Whites got us in for free and we walked past the two hour line and got right in, it was awesome.

Mike took Dean goose hunting, he was happy. I didn't have to see any of the deadness, I was happy.

Josie loves Utah, nobody believes me but she really does eat better down there. When we went to leave she was screaming before I even had her buckled in the car seat. I couldn't get her out and hold her because Dean wasn't with me, not to mention the law or the danger. I dealt with it all the way to Willard then I started crying. I pulled over tried to comfort her, no surprise it didn't work. I called Dean he told me he would get a ride down with Stan we could stay at my moms another night and try again in the morning. He is so good to me. We left at 6 am the next morning and she slept the whole way home. Grandma had a sleep over with the grand kids. She is so fun and does such fun stuff with them. Maddie spent a few days with me and then we all joined the fun at grandmas. she is so patient with the messes. doesn't it look fun. Angela does toes. She let me try on hers, she is brave, I did good. Rio does toes too. I let her do mine. Cameron is so cute with Josie. He is a sweet dad.
I asked Cameron if he would take care of Josie if Dean and I died.
He said Yes
I asked Cameron if he would love her like his own.
He said Yes
I asked him if I could put him as the beneficiary on our life insurance
He said Yes
So I did, I'm not kidding.