Catch up!

So, I have been MIA for about a month and all of a sudden I was like "oh crap, I need to do a post".  Ugh...we have been so busy with work and of course busy with our little lady.  I apologize ahead of time for the picture quality.  Every single one of these pictures was taken with an IPhone.  Isn't that how we live our lives now anyway?  This is a random assortment of some very recent pictures to share.

Luckily, we have the neighborhood park right outside our front door.  This time last year, Jocelyn wouldn't even go near the "big girl" slide.  Look at her now.  So confident!

I know...I am a bad mom...but is this not the cutest hiney ever?!?  I bet you want to just squish her cheeks!!  We are "attempting" potty training.  I guess I spoke too soon early on, because at first it went kind of well...surprisingly.  Now, she won't go in the potty at all.  She will talk about it, sit on it, play with it...but won't go in it?!?  I think over the Thanksgiving break, we will work on it again.  Jocelyn LOVES her "big girl panties" so much so that she puts them over her pull up. 

 Whatever works girl!

Jocelyn's school had a fall festival, and for some reason she was super shy and wouldn't talk to any of her friends?  They would all run up and want to say hi, and she would turn her head and not look at them?  Weird...cause that is not how she is at school.  I guess if you take them out of their comfort zone, they aren't sure how to act.  We still managed to get a cute picture.  And, yes, it was literally 90 degrees outside, and I made her wear ugs, and a sweater because it was a cute outfit.  Nobody ever said being beautiful was easy :)

They had train rides...we went 3 times :) 

I love this picture!  Actually one of the best of us in a while.  She actually let me fix her hair, but seconds later, she ripped the pig tails out...sigh...I have no idea why she won't let me fix her hair?  If she only knew what random strangers say "how old is he? oh, he is so cute. Oh, he went that way" she would probably let me fix her hair more often.  People think my sweet little girl looks like a boy?  Makes me sad, but I know that the awkward hair stage A.K.A mullet will not last forever. 

I know this is a ghetto way of displaying a picture, but her school pictures actually turned out super cute!  The photographer made a boatload off of me for sure!

Jocelyn went to a friend's birthday party at Home Depot.  We (I) built a planter.  She helped paint though. 

My silly little girl with her PJ pants on her head. 

 

Jocelyn's vocabulary has developed so much ever since she moved up to the big kid classroom.  She actually makes sense and is able to communicate to us what she wants.  It amazes Derek and I the words and phrases she knows.  Often times we will hear what she says, look at each other and shrug our shoulders...cause we didn't teach it her! 

 

Some of the funny phrases that she says that I wanted to document are:

 

Have a good day

Aww man

Wuv you (love you)

Count to 13, and sometimes an inter mitten 20

I want to go dunstuns (downstairs)

Mom...look hairpain (airplane)

Hush Toby or Toby be quiet (guess she gets that from me?)

Jocelyn what do you want for dinner? "Chicken and cheese"

Mommy you sit here

Mommy, I want to eat (and then goes and sits at the table and waits to be served)

Calls all of her friends by their names, and for some reason CANNOT pronounce her friend Dash's name?  She calls him Cash?  We will say D-D-D-Dash, and she says Cash.  Guess that will be his name forever?!?  Glad his parents are cool with it!

 

I feel like she is so smart, and I have no idea where she gets it from.  Little ones are truly sponges, and they watch your every move.  This little stinker can use my IPhone better than I can?  Crazy.  Jocelyn is a blessing in our lives and makes us smile every day!