Hands=friends

Josie bear is starting to interact more. Its kind of completely fascinating to watch her figure things out. She has started focusing on objects and grabbing them, which yesterday was just too much to handle. Now she's figured out how to use her hands. This is her "concentrating" face.

See? She's really interacting. I love it. (This post is mostly for my madre who doesn't get to see her as much now that she's a teaching teacher worker lady again)

Sometimes I try to manipulate them to hold the bottle for herself. Never too early to be my helping hand, right?

Whatever will I do when I miss these monumental moments because I'm stuck at work??

Big scary green monster

I have become addicted to the wonder that is the green monster. I've heard of it many many many times before, but was always completely terrified to try it out. My curiosity won in the end and I found myself at http://greenmonstermovement.com/ where there are hundreds of recipes to make different varieties. So what is a green monster?

Basically it is just a blended combination of lettuce or spinach with other fruits, veggies, milk, yogurt, peanut butter, or whatever else you think should be in it. I cannot believe how good it is (at least the variety I made).

Mine had spinach, kale, half an apple, banana, peanut butter, milk, and ice. SOOO GOOOOOD. It tasted like an apple dipped in peanut butter but I got dairy, fruit, veggies, and protein all in one drink. It fills me up and is sweet enough to almost taste like I had a dessert.

We'll see how long my love of this will last. I'll have to try other variations to keep it interesting. Any suggestions?

Off to the farm plus 2 years

We spent the weekend at the good old farm. Mike was beyond thrilled because he finally got the garage cleaned out enough to fit an old car he was planning on bringing home. Now we get to be one of those cars at those car shows... like all my fancy knowledge about it? :)

BAAH I love him.

There it is, in all it's glory.

In her Sunday best.

And then we got to celebrate our anniversary! Two years down, dinner at "Taste of Italy" downtown. We were planning on going to Tuscana's but the close at 12:30 PM. How do they even make enough to stay open with hours like that? We also met some random guys that were asking for a referral to a nice seafood or steak restaurant. I had to hold back laughter as I thought of saying "Red Lobster". Real original. They ended up eating at the same place as us and even bought us some dessert like shot, sent to our table all fancy like in an ice shot "glass" instead of a regular shot glass.

My sis-in-law babysat Josie and I have to say that we did pretty good for being away from her for the first time like that. We did talk about her (like we wouldn't? come on) but we were able to entertain ourselves other ways, like pretending we know anything about wine and then laughing when the wine that came was red instead of white. It was listed under white wines, just saying.

And here she was today... all adorable and wide-eyed. I love this little lady!

Car show with pictures!

Last night we went to the car show thing that happens on the 3rd Thursday of the month in West Fargo. While the guys walked around in their version of heaven, the girls stayed busy photographing Josie. I'll leave you with some pictures that Missy got (she's good!!)