Getting Closer

This is from this morning, she's trying to get her book while going over a toy. To me it's proof that she'll be crawling in no time!

Josephine's First Christmas

For Christmas Josephine got her first mode of transportation - a cherry red convertible walker. Boy she was excited.

Later she played on her new baby gym. It's been helping her reach and grab items. It's a lot of fun to see her developments. This Christmas she made out like a bandit.

Genealogy

This week I had the excellent opportunity of going to Oregon and doing some genealogy work with my Grandma Atkinson. I'd heard from my dad that she had a family tree. Boy was he wrong. At first we couldn't figure out what it was. Then we realized it was an estate claim made back in the 1800s. One of my ancestors wrote down every name he knew to prove his relationship with Andew House's estate. It's kinda weird, and needs to be untangled, but it's also so cool! This is going to be my project for the next several months - untangle the estate claim to create my family tree. If I succeed I could be a Daughter of the Revolution, which is also pretty neat.

I'll also be scrapbooking for Josephine.

Chatty Kathy

Josephine is a very social child. We're at Grandma and Grandpa Spencer's house and the last two nights during dinner she's stolen the show. She has discovered, and perfected, how to take out her binky and put it back in. This allows her to talk, or coo, while still enjoying her binky. She has such a strong personality already. She loves people and smiling at them, she's very social. It's amazing to me that her spirit is alfready showing through at just 4 months old.

Josephine Lifting Her Head

On Thursday Russell and I went shopping for Christmas. While at the mall I stopped to change Josephine. At one point I turned her onto her stomach and she popped her head right up. This was the first time she'd lifted her head like this while on her stomach. Here's a video catching her in the act.

Also, I finished my last day of college yesterday. I'm a bit sad, I miss Dr. Leukel and the 5th grade class.

Saturday

For starters we had a babysitter, or rather two because Russell's parents were in town for Thanksgiving. So, yesterday we won our football game against Utah in overtime. Afterwards we totally rushed the field, which included jumping over the railing that lines the field.

Above is Russell and the score board, below is the crowd with Max Hall crowd surfing.

Sunday

Russell and I are family history consultants. We had decided that one of us would go home because Josephine is so young and it's RSV season. But we got called and so we are teaching a Sunday school class - so neither of us are going home. Today right at the end of Sunday school she had a blow out all over herself and the car seat...I was able to change her and get her home. I laid her down in her crib, she reached up, pulled down her sheep, and cuddled right up to it. I thought it was so sweet that I snapped a couple pictures, which woke her up, but it was worth it.