Silly Daddy

Jordan thinks Ty is silly. One day she said "Dad, you are too silly. We need to find mom a new dad and get her married again." The next day she found that new dad. Her stuffed Scooby Doo. However, later she was playing dress up. When I asked her what she was doing, she told me she was going to marry Scooby Doo. She ran around dancing with him most of the day. It was actually quite entertaining. So I don't know if I'm really supposed to marry Scooby Doo, or if he moved on to her instead.

Preschool

So the reason for the backround is that on September 1, Joey started preschool. She absolutely loves it! She's asking me why she can't go every day. She still only knows the name of one kid (from church), and can't remember her teachers name (I really think she can, but forgets when she gets nervous), but always talks about school. Due to my work schedule, I've only been able to pick her up once from school, but thankfully Ty can usually walk over and get her, then my little brother comes and gets her from him. Once I make it to my parents to get Joey, I ask her what she did at school that day. The most memorable answer yet was "We went to the bathroom." For several hours, that was all she'd tell me about school that day. Another day her answer was "We dug a hole in the dirt and buried two cockroaches." Ah, the things that kids find important.
Anyway, here are the two pictures I got of her on her first day of preschool. She wouldn't just smile for me, so I apologize now for them.

Disneyland

So I told you guys a while ago that we went to Disneyland and that when we got the camera cord I'd post the pictures. Well, now I'm getting to posting the pictures. We were in LA for Ty's work (he had some training down there) and decided to get year passes to Disneyland. We nearly got them back in March when we went, but figured we wouldn't be back in the near future. We were kicking ourselves for that, but oh well. Now we have to go back at least one more time to make the passes worth it. So if anyone goes down and wants some company, give us a call. Here are the pictures.
(Disclaimer-It was 95+ that day and super humid, so in half the pictures we're all sweaty, and in the other half, we had been playing in the water. So don't judge the pictures please.)
The first ride we went on was the Toy Story ride. She loves it!!

Joey took this picture of Ty and I.

Joey and Ty playing in one of the little watering holes for the kids. There are 3 different water stations, and they were all full of kids trying to cool down and have fun.

A different water station where the water shoots from the ground up.

Joey was soaked to the bone from the water, but loved it.

Joey and I on the caterpillar ride.

Joey right before going into the Bug's Life movie. We won't do that again as she hates the movie.

Joey eating her "huge" bite of cotton candy.

Hope ya'll enjoy our pictures. We sure had a lot of fun that day even though we were only there a half day.

Spanish

Joey has decided lately that she knows a lot of spanish. Here are how two conversations (at totally different times) went between her and I yesterday.

Joey: "I know how to say fish in Spanish."
Me: "Oh yeah, how?"
Joey: "Yeah, it's 'Goldfish.' That's how they say fish in Spanish."

Later last night-

Joey: "I know how to say blanket in Spanish."
Me: "Ok, tell me how to say blanket in Spanish."
Joey: "'Blankie'. Cuz they all say they have a blankie, not a blanket."

And the thing is, you can't argue with this kid. First off, she'd defend herself until you just quit. But secondly, and mostly, you can't argue cuz you are too busy laughing.

Mommy's Magic

Joey loves to make up songs. She also loves to take songs she knows and change the words to make her own songs. Ty started singing the song "Oh, Oh, it's magic" (not really sure if those are the lyrics), and Joey took the song and put her words in. Here is how her song turned out.
Oh Oh, mommy's magic, because she's nice, and funny, and gorgeous, and silly, and beautiful, and sometimes not nice.

Not a toddler anymore

I think tonight Joey is going to bed feeling like a big girl. Wanna know why? Cuz she's sleeping tonight in her brand new big girl bed! We finally bought a mattress for her bed (which we bought two weeks ago) and put together her bed. She's in love with it and helped us put it together (which was super easy!!!!!!!!!! Another reason to love Ikea furniture).

The closet... again

So, we finally did finish her closet. Well, except for a few last parts to paint white on the outside trim, and the closet doors, but other than that it's done. The shelves turned out great. Thanks Ty for all the hard work and putting up with me. If you don't look too close, you don't notice all the little things that should have been done different. But it looks good and works great! I didn't get before pictures, so imagine it without the shelves and this ugly off white color that is 20+ years old, so it's dirty. Oh, and the closet had huge holes all through it from wire shelving that we had to patch as well. But here is the finished shelving.
Please ignore the mess... I promise, when I first finished it, her closet was way clean and organized... then we had her friends over, and this is how it ended.


Notice the shelf across the bottom? That's probably what was most difficult to figure out how to put in, but I'm in love with it! I love that her shoes go on top of it and her toys have easy access underneath it. And I can still move everything and vacuum.
Her closet doors I will probably work on throughout the week as I don't work a lot this week. We are painting them with chalkboard paint so Joey and her friends can color all over them. I'm way excited about how it will look all done!

Great Grandparents Staheli

So on our trip home from Utah (I promise, this is the last of my Utah pictures), we decided to detour and stop in Enterprise and visit Great Grandma and Grandpa Staheli. Grandma was surprised to see us as the message never reached her that we were coming, but Grandpa knew. It was a nice break in the trip, and so good to see them! Ty and I were trying to figure out the last time we had been to Enterprise and seen them there, and we think it was around Easter just after Joey was born... so 3.5 years ago. Too long. Anyway, Grandma made us yummy chicken salad sandwiches for dinner and called over some cousins. Here are our pictures with the cousins and with Grandma and Grandpa.

I just love how cute and little this miniature horse is!!!

Some day...

So a week ago we were going to go to the beach, but plans changed. We ended up going to Disneyland instead. I do have pictures, but I don't know where the cord is to download them. So, someday when the cord is found, I'll post some pictures of us at Disneyland. Want to know the highlight of the trip? At California Adventures, in the kiddie section, they have 3 different water stations where the kids and get soaked. Joey loved it!