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

POD daddy cuddles

Happy Mophie's Day

Hi, this is Eric. This is my first attempt at a post. It took several attempts to get it- but I'll just let Josie do the talking for me.

Take One:


Getting Closer:


Success:


Even Better:

Barb to the rescue!

Last week I injured my neck in a freak accident... just turned my head in bed and SNAP! For several days I was unable to lift Josie, and unable to turn my head more than a couple inches to each side. So, wonderful Aunt Barb came up and stayed with us to help me manage Josie and the household tasks while I healed. Thank goodness!
Josie had a great time with her Aunt. She even got to go to Build-a-bear, and she made a cute bunny, named her Fluffy and dressed her in underpants and pink pajamas.

Easter Weekend

We had a fabulous time at my parents house, visiting Meemo, Nonno, Heidi, Maria and Kyle. Josie had so much fun frolicking in the yard, feeding the chickens, petting Sammy the bunny, eating normally forbidden candy, and generally exploring. It was really lovely and quite relaxing to be around so many loving family members, and to eat my mama's food.
We had our traditional easter egg dying competition on Saturday, and sat around for hours coming up with ideas and dying the ultimate eggs. We totalled around 9 dozen eggs. The Yost grandparents also joined us, so we got the best of both worlds for an afternoon.
Sunday we hunted eggs first thing in the morning. Maria won with 27 eggs found, Heidi close behind. Then delicious breakfast, church, and home for a relaxing afternoon.
Here are a few new portraits of Josie, but only a couple of action shots. I was too busy hunting eggs myself to take pictures, so we'll have to wait for Nonno to get home from his trip home to Germany for Oma's 80th birthday to post all the egg shot and the egg hunters on pbase.

Josie toddler videos

Here a couple cute and a couple humorous videos of Josie.

Kissing grandma and grandpa over the webcam:


Saying her ABCs:

And just plain being silly:

Grandparent visit