Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

Sorry I've neglected writing for a while, but June was a very busy month!

We moved Josie's planted sunflowers out to the backyard. I made a special little flower bed for them in the corner of our yard. Unfortunately, we are surrounded by neighbors with roaming cats. The sunflowers only lasted a few days before something dug them up. I haven't told Josie, and she hasn't asked about them.....
The second week of June I decided it was time to try potty training again. We tried a couple of months ago, and she just wasn't quite ready yet. So, I made her a sticker chart and told her if she put some "tee-tee" in the potty, she got a sticker. Well, it worked! She really wanted that sticker! The first couple of days were just about timing it right. She "tried" about every 30 minutes. It really was exhausting! But by Wednesday, she was telling me when she needed to go! We even went "out" and experienced our first public potty at dinner on Friday night. She has done absolutely fantastic!!!! I guess when they're ready, they're just ready. The sticker chart is a little off for Wednesday and Sunday. She went more than that, but with church going on we just didn't have time to do the sticker thing those days.
Josie loves wearing her Dora and Elmo panties! I keep extras in the car now, and she decided to put them on her arms like bracelets. The third week of June we had VBS. Our theme was "Survivor" and it was so much fun! It was a very long, exhausting week, but definitely worth it! I taught the 4 year olds, and had the best co-teacher ever! Ms. Diana did an excellent job of making our classroom look like a jungle. In fact, it was so cool, the mother's day out teacher asked us to leave it up for her "go Green" theme next school year. Josie was very excited about VBS. Every day she repeatedly asked me, "Go church? Go class??" She also LOVED Ollie the orangutan puppet who is still "napping" now.

Last weekend we finally made it to the pool for the first time this summer! Josie looked so cute in her new swimsuit. She's such a big girl now! The whole time we were in the pool, she kept asking if we could go swimming and we kept telling her that we were swimming.


And that's what we've been up to! Hopefully we can rest some in July!