Josie Photos

I am watching Joise today while Lisa teaches class.  I brought Josie to Lisa for lunchtime and she said that the grandparents need some new photos.  So I took some, they aren't great, but here they are:

 This is how she falls asleep for me.  It isn't easy to take a photo in this position.  But, she is still a cute sleeping baby.

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So I couldn't find my camera battery charger so when it ran out of juice I could no longer take photos or download what I had on the camera.  I was sure it would just turn up- but my kitchen (where I keep such things) is completely clean and no battery.  I didn't have anywhere else to look.  Until yesterday when I started doing the taxes and I couldn't find the tax file from last year on my computer (please, let it be on the other computer or the external drive) so I went to look for the hard copy.  Searching for the hard copy through the office I had to open every file box and drawer because I don't do the filing so I had no idea where Tim kept them.  And one of those draws held my charger.  How it got there?  I don't know.  But, now I have it.  And I would be showing you photos from that camera except now I can't find the downloading cord.  But, luckily I have still have my old camera and I have taken some photos on it. 

Usually when I download I find a series of photos taken by Mark.  It is always fascinating to see what he chooses to take photos of.  Sometimes they are shots he spent a lot of time posing his toys for, sometimes they are people, and sometimes they are ceilings and doors.  This installment included his feet.

 Last weekend we took a trip to the zoo.  Mark and Tim rode the carousel.  Mark thought it was pretty awesome.

 Lilly loves her new baby, Josie.  Here she is rocking Josie as they get ready to leave.

 Fiona, Lilly, and Mark playing a go to sleep game.  It cracks me up that kids think playing at going to sleep is fun.

 Lilly and Mark at the Children's museum- they both really enjoy playing in the "Tree House".  Lilly has been working on climbing in and out of the windows and Mark has been practicing sleeping on the top bunk.  He really wants bunk beds- so badly that he conceded that he would sleep on the top so Lilly could sleep on the lower one.

 We didn't get snow like the East Coast, but we have had some snow here and the kids have been out in it.  We haven't had a snow day that was warm enough to go sledding yet.  The days it has snowed have been too cold to take the kids out for any long time and then it has rapidly warmed up.  Today it is going to be 60 tomorrow or Monday it might snow and Tuesday might not break 0 (so said the radio this morning)

 This is what most of the winter here has looked like; no snow, sunny sky, cold enough for a heavy jacket.

 I have this same photo of Mark at about this age- but it is on my old computer so you can just see the Lilly version.  It is interesting all the little ways they are alike- the things they think are fun at the same time.

Josie is here!

We are overjoyed to welcome Josie.

 Never has a baby been so blessed as to have two moms like Lisa and Betty.

Lisa had a long labor- here are a couple of photos from the beginning when they didn't know it would take another 40 some hours.  Lisa did amazing in labor, from Thursday afternoon until Josie was born on Saturday afternoon.

We all relished our opportunities to hold baby Josie.  She is such an angel.

(I am pretty happy to be Aunt Amy)

Lilly is waving Hi to Josie.  We are trying to teach her not to touch babies, except for on the toes.  So far she is doing OK.

Uncle Tim

Grandma

Grandpa

I don't think there could be a better Christmas present than a new baby in the family :)

Our hike

So it isn't every Christmas Eve in Denver that you can take a long hike in a valley because the weather is in the 50s.  It was perfect :)  I know that someday there will be snow- and I can wait.


It was cold enough to need hats- here is Lilly, being the cute little girl she is.  She slept on my back whole hike so the only photo I have of her is before when we were eating lunch.

 Mark did hike the whole 2 miles- without any whining!  But he did find a lot of things to do along the trail that were not so fast.  For instance he wanted to hide under all the big boulder and in all the hiddy holes, he wanted to draw in the sand, he wanted to touch that water (it was cold), and he wanted to pick up rocks for dinosaur food.  My coat pocket is full of rocks and sand now.

 We had to cross the creek here- there was no bridge and the final hop was kinda far - especially for getting Mark, the stroller, and me with Lilly in the pack across

Speaking of the stroller, the BOB stroller we have will go over a lot of terrain, but not this.  The trail looked flat when we started, but then 90% of it was not flat enough for a kid in the stroller and a few parts of it were so steep/rocky that it had to be carried.  I only have photos of Tim hauling it, but Grandpa did quite a bit of it too.

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Christmas

This is how big they were last year

 Here is everyone first thing in the morning.

 Lilly with her Christmas Minnie.

 Mark was SO ready to open presents

 Life doesn't get much better than opening stockings with Grandma and Grandpa and getting to eat chocolate first thing in the morning.

 My attempt at getting a posed photo from them.  Only one ever looks up at the same time.

 Lilly's favorite present was my pearl (thank you Tim :) ).  She took them out of the box before I even had it all the way open and put them right on.

 Isn't this the reaction you always want from your kids?  Mark was SO excited to get a large Mac Truck.

 He also got a collection of other cars from the Cars movie- he has been playing 'pit crew' all day.

The last month or so

We traded in our Rav 4 for a minivan

We took Bob the Builder and a ladybug trick or treating

We rode the hippo statue at the zoo.

 It snowed and we tried to catch snowflakes on our tongues.

 We went to Delaware to visit Pop Pop and Nana.

just some photos

Words and lots more photos later