Busy Day and Halloween Preview

After swimming, we watched the Iowa State/Texas game with our neighbors (Iowa State fans). Jolie got to play with Kynley and Addison again and had so much fun! Kynley and Jolie love being able to scoot to each other and laugh and smile so big at each other! Jolie also loves looking out the window to see if she can see them outside!

So then after that we had a little fashion show and tried on our Husker stuff and then our Halloween costume! Jolie's a little duckie this year. (Petey was not cooperating to take any pictures with Jolie in her duck costume-boo) She didn't mind her duck costume at all!


After that big day, Jolie just passed out! Good thing tomorrow will be a nice relaxing day for her!

Waterbabies

We had our second swim class today and Jolie loved it again and she got to show dad her skills! She even dunked herself on accident! We were practicing rolling from tummies to back and all of a sudden she jerked her head and dunked her face in the water! I felt horrible but she just sputtered a little and was cool with it! Phew! Then we did a dunk with all the babies (where you blow in their face first to make them hold their breath) and she did great with that. I think its much scarier for the parents! :)
She loves grabbing her toes


At the end of class we get a bunch of toys out and they 'chase' after the toys.

Look dad! I got my toy!

When she isn't grabbing her toes, she loves kicking! She's also one of the few who doesn't mind being held out front and floating. What a pro!

And although we didn't catch a lot of smiles in these pictures, she really smiles so much during class! She gets so excited when we sing the songs and do lifts in and out of the water. I'm so pumped that she's getting so comfortable with the water this early!

GBR! (Go Big Red for those who may not know)

Jolie has just about outgrown her Husker cheerleading outfit so I thought we better get a few pictures before it was too late. However, it was after a very long day and near bedtime when I thought to do this, so she was very sleepy! Thanks Jolie for being such a good sport!



Petey wanted to show off his Husker stuff too!

The closet I got to taking a decent photo of both of them in their Husker stuff.

The Army Crawl

Although Jolie isn't traditionally 'crawling' quite yet, she is becoming quite efficient at the army crawl. Sometimes we'll glance away for a bit and turn around and she's across the living room! Of course her favorite things to go after seem to be non-baby items including Petey's chew bones, Josh's laptop and the tv remote. We better get those baby gates ready!

Eat the Puff

After a little while of playing with the puffs, we thought she maybe needed an actual demonstration that puffs were for eating. So here's the first taste of puffs--funny faces! We are starting out with sweet potato puffs--they have many varieties to choose from and they turn to mush very easily. I see a lot of messes in the near future...

Meet the Puff

Jolie's teacher at school gently suggested that she's probably ready to start trying out some puffs and crackers and putting those toothers to work. So we picked up some puffs to try at home first. Not really thinking it through, I put a whole handful of puffs in front of Jolie, when she could have just used one or two! And for the most part, she just picked them up and found them fascinating. Petey is also finding this fascinating and is quickly learning to watch for any dropped food!

Jolie loves to make that noise when you put your hand in front of your mouth...um, I don't really know what it's called, but hopefully you know what I mean. In fact, she loves it so much, she's kind of figured out how to do it on her own! Every once in awhile she kind of smacks herself too hard and will cry, but she's getting better and better! :) I can't remember why she doesn't have a shirt on though...maybe we were changing clothes or something...

All Better...I think!

After another long night, I stayed home with Jolie and her medicine finally started working around noon! She took a huge nap this morning and then had a pretty good bottle so I was super excited! She's still not quite drinking as much as usual and she's pretty stuffy still, but no fevers and more smiles!

Here's a demonstration! And if you look closely you can see her two little toothers!


And these long nights are especially hard on Petey. He'll probably remain in this position for the next few days! :)

Ear Infection #2

I don't have any pictures from this weekend-Boo! But I can give an update anyway. Friday night Jolie started running a fever and didn't sleep very well. Saturday morning she seemed okay so we thought maybe it was just a fluke thing. She was smiley and such and we had her first swimming lesson so we decided to try it out. Josh decided to catch up on some of his sleep since we had tag-teamed rocking Jolie all night, so we were down a photographer! :)

She loved swimming lessons! It's pretty much just the parents splashing around and singing songs (that's right, I had to sing! It was NOT pretty!) while the babies splash and kick. We are very excited to show dad next weekend!

Pretty much as soon as she got out of the pool things started going downhill. She was very mad and wouldn't drink much and started running a fever again--saddest thing! It's so hard because you want to make them all better, but there's nothing you can do! After a rough night last night which included a fever of 103 we decided we needed to go to the doctor. She has another ear infection so we got medicine for that, but waiting for it to start working is making me crazy! She's still not drinking much and needs to be upright all the time or else she cries. Poor pumpkin! It looks like we'll be spending tomorrow snuggling and hopefully being on the mend or else I'm going to have to pull the 'crazy, over-reacting mom' card and go back to the doctor! :)

Play Day

Thursday Grandma and Grandpa Buechler stayed with Jolie for a play day! They went for walks and took some naps and played, played, played! Then when I got home we went to the park as fast as we could to play with leaves. We got a little smarter since our last attempt at the park and just had dad meet us there, picked a park closer to our house, and ate supper after the park--how smart are we?

Jolie had played with leaves earlier in the week at school and they said she loved it so naturally, we wanted to see too! And she did love them--although I had to pull a couple out of her mouth, she had a great time crunch and throwing them.



She also got to swing, but as you can see, the swing was HUGE for her! But she did a great job of hanging on and she loved it!