Catch up

I realize that I take pictures very randomly. I'll go for a while taking pictures all the time, then I'll go for a while without taking any! I need to get better about that - although Jocelyn's not changing much from week to week anymore, so it's probably okay. Thank goodness for digital pictures - I'd have way too many boxes of prints if we still just had film.

We haven't been up to too much lately. We had a nice Mother's Day - Jocey slept until 10:45 - that was her present to me. Calvin got me some nice new walking shoes and a shirt. We spent the day with Calvin's parents and brother and had fun visiting and playing outside. Kailee has started her softball season, and we've worn winter coats to two of the games already! They're pretty good - a lot of them have been together for a few seasons, which helps a lot. Jocelyn turned 18 months on the 10th. She's learning more words every day - I think she's probably up to about 40 or so. Her newest fun thing she learned is zipping. We have her doctor on Friday, and I'm anxious to see how much she's grown. I don't think she's grown much at all - a lot of her summer stuff still fits from last year! She was much chubbier then though. She's slimmed down a lot since she started walking.

Here's our first little buds in the garden! Yeah! Everything's starting to come up - these are the onions, which we planted from bulbs, so they're pretty big.

Okay - these are kinda hard to see, but this will be broccoli. It's so fun to see everything starting to grow. We had frost a few weeks ago, and a few of the tomato plants didn't make it. I was worried the seeds would be damaged too, but I think they're going to be fine! Oh, and we're not getting chickens. The city council didn't approve the ordinance.

Kailee with the hugest rhubarb leaf we'd ever seen!

My mom, grandma and two aunts go to Door County every year. This last weekend they were there, so Mom stopped by on her way home for a short visit. Jocelyn got her first skinned knees of the season! I'm sure it won't be her last!

She hardly even cried! What a tough girl.

Once she realized that when you get an owie, you get bubbles on them (foaming antibacterial stuff), she was the happiest girl around! We haven't introduced bandaids yet - maybe the bubbles will work their magic for one more year.

Mowing the grass with her baby in tow

Kissing her new baby. We just got it on Friday - I was going to get her an Elmo doll, but she picked the baby instead. It came with a backpack with a bib, bottle and toy in it. She loves babies.

Giving Ellie and Ginger a treat. This is another one of her favorite things to do - the dogs don't complain either!

She woke up with wild bead head today. Yikes.

My grandma got her a new doll on their trip. She calls it her girl. Whenever we see another kid, she always calls it a baby. So if it's a big kid, I tell her it's either a boy or a girl. And this doll isn't a baby, so therefore, it's a girl!

She finally likes to wear sunglasses - it took a while to get her to put them on. She likes to play pretend and go bye-bye. She has to have her purse, keys, and now sunglasses!