Meet Pim

This weekend Maria and Kyle came to visit, and along came their new canine addition to the family: Pim the Old English Sheepdog! So sweet, so cute, and so much fun. Josie LOVED her and had so much fun, even crying after Pim left.
We had a little birthday BBQ for Eric today in honor of his 30th birthday. Carl and Ashley also made it for the party. Carl is going to UW this fall and we are looking forward to having him around more.
And, on a random note, Josie has gone into "WHY?" mode in a major way. She reminds me of Heidi, who we called the "whybox" at this stage because she just couldn't stop asking why why why why why???

Burrito

After her bath, Josie will ask to be wrapped up "like a burrito" and carried around in her towel. Here is a cute shot of her wrapped burrito style with grandpa.

Camp Sealth

Here are a hodge podge of pictures from our 8 days at camp Sealth on Vashon Island. We had a great time despite the rain, and JoJo Bean was a huge hit with all the campers.

Messy face pic and 2 year old update

I just had to post a picture of Josie licking off the stirrer from our ice cream maker... deliberately messy and loving it.
I am enjoying her so much these days, it is so fun to be able to communicate so much more now. She loves telling little made up stories about baby animals, she pretends to hold them in her hand and they do everything with her. Today it was baby owl, yesterday it was baby ocelot.
She is potty trained now, too, which is fun for her. Its another thing that she can do by herself, which is HUGE right now. And she likes to pick out her undies, and spends a lot of time deciding which pair :-)
Another big milestone we just accomplished is graduating from crib to big girl bed. Eric really wanted her to be excited about it so we spent tons of time talking it up and preparing her for the move. We went as a family to buy a mattress at Costco, and she got to pick her own sheet set out, too (rainbow hearts, pretty cute. I was just thankful she didn't go straight for the barbie princess ones!!). So far it has been really great, she slept from 9-5 the other night in her own bed, IN HER OWN ROOM which is a first for her!

Tricycle

Josie has had a grand time with her new trike. Here are some pictures of us in Sellwood with Maria and Kyle, trying the trike out on a neighborhood walk.

Rainbow Birthday party

We had a birthday party with a RAINBOW theme this weekend at the Yosts in Portland. Rainbow balloons, rainbow streamers, rainbow cake, rainbow tutu, and crazy rainbow outfits for everyone! We had a great time, Josie had a BALL.
Nonno also took some fun photos, here is the link: http://www.pbase.com/peterschmidt/josies_2nd_birthday