Family Portrait

Josie drew this the other day. She did all the spelling by herself!

Apple Pie Oatmeal

Grama Joan has signed Josie up for a subscription to Highlights magazine for preschool age kids.  She loves to get the magazine and the first things she looks at are the craft and the cooking project.  We have made many of the crafts and some of the food.  One of her favorites is the personal face pizza.  Well the recipe a month or so ago was Apple Pie Oatmeal.  She was very excited to make it and once we did it was FANTASTIC! Watch for more recipes.  We will be making this months recipe - Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding - soon.  (We were going to make it this weekend but we ate most of the cinnamon raisin bread during the week.)

A Lazy Saturday Afternoon

So the other day I come home and there is a note for me that reads:
Josie wants to ask mom to go swimming.
After clarifying where - she wanted to play in her pool in the backyard- I told her we would do it on Saturday.  After all it has been 94 degrees  or higher each day this week.  She was ready to go in the pool but when she saw me with my magazines, soda, and snack she decided she wanted to sit and read also.  She got her books and sunglasses while I got the soda and snacks.  She sat down only to say, "I can't really read yet so I will just look at the pictures."  She did eventually go in the pool after "reading" a few   books and eating some Skittles.

35 POUNDS!

Josie has been wanting to climb the rockwall at the gym for nearly a year.  You have to be 35 pounds to climb and she has been waiting and waiting.  As she got closer she got more excited.  The other day she was finally 35 pounds.  She did a little dance and Jay told her she could climb on Saturday when we went to gym.  On Saturday morning the first thing she did was weigh herself and she was only 34 pounds.  She was heartbroken.  We told her to eat a big breakfast and heavy clothes.  After breakfast and in heavy clothes we weighed in again and wouldn't you know it she was 35 pounds.  She did not know what to make of it in the end but she did climb a couple times.

A fruit and a vegetable

So as I have said before Josie is growing a garden.  Not much to it but she is having fun. Today we picked another tomato (there are 18 more on the vine) and the ONE carrot that grew.  Josie was so excited she ate it right away.  She announced - "Look, I have a fruit and a vegetable." 
By the way- do you love the cowboy boots and the pjs?  She loves those boots.