"a rocket with lots of fire around it...

...blasting off and flying around through the stars" (the picture josie drew on the envelope of a birthday card for a little buddy's party this morning)

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Zebra with a bird on its back

...and lovely eyelashes. By josephine

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the other zebra

By josephine

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Holy Moly, Roly Poly Rolls!

In a blink, Sweet Bea has gone from that simple little video of her finally opening her eyes to the world to this moment today when she decided to earn her name by rolling, rolling, rolling. This is one of the first rolls and then she did it about 20 more times in the next couple of hours.  Go Roly Poly Go!
(On the topic of Roly Poly, I should say that I was thinking there for awhile the Josie was going to stop calling her that as I noticed more and more that she was referring to her as Bea or "Beatrist". But last night when she sweetly asked me to tell her a story, I knew the moniker was sticking around for awhile longer. "Mommy, tell me a story about My Roly Poly.")

So, here she is Roly Poly Rolling. Enjoy!

Get this, stat

This heat is ridiculous. Really ridiculous. And serious. In our daily effort to keep cool and hydrated, this handy pitcher has made that pursuit a little more tasty. Last week, blueberry iced tea. This week, lemon\lime water. Yummy. Now off to get my naked baby from her nap, because it is definitely a diaper-only kind of day. Stay cool out there.

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So much love

These two get more in more attached with every passing day. It is so beautiful to watch.

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The sunflower dance

The sunflowers we planted back May-ish are finally as tall as Josephine. And that my friends is worth dancing about!

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Tottertown

For some reason, we all keep referring to "Totter's Otterville" as "Tottertown." Regardless of its name, it's a pretty good option out there for Cincinnati folks with kids who need to burn off some energy when it's too darn hot to do anything outside (or too darn cold to do anything outside come winter).

On Friday we met our friends Jodi & Keaton there and had so much fun.

Beatrice, as usual, was super chill:

Josie, as usual, was very creative in her style choices:

The highlight of the experience for Josie was the "paint your own face" area:

In her words, "I'm a sweet little mouse." (Yes honey, you are a sweet little mouse.)

The sweet little mouse also enjoyed a little ballet:

And even though we are pretty darn sure that the fever Josie came down with on Sunday can be traced back to Tottertown, it will still remain on our list as a fun little oasis in Northern Kentucky.  

There are some more photos below from my phone that I posted separately. Most importantly, check out the great sign on the door that was also posted throughout the whole place. Turns out, Totter has a peanut allergy. And while we wouldn't wish a peanut allergy on anyone, it's pretty darn cool that Totter has one.  (Thanks so much Jodi for giving us the scoop!)

Two sweet girls, getting big way too fast

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Oh this smile just melts me...every single time.

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Josie...just before she realized she was stuck and had to be rescued by a sweet older girl

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