Amber Ulmer

So I have a WINNER!!

Christen Krumm said...

i love it when elsie and i have "conversations" it's so much fun. nursing would have to be a big one too. and her cute little "waving bye bye"... thanks for this opportunity! xoxo, christen krumm

 Christen, I am so excited that you won!! Good old random number generator!
You have been reading my blog for a while & commenting so Im super excited!!! Thanks so much for hanging out w/us!! I've popped over to watch your lil E grow as well!

Just email me & I'll give you the info you need of the class!
ambie04@gmail.com

A few snapshots of lil Josephine... modeling for the wonderful ElSage Designs! If you haven't checked out her headbands & such, you must! I love what she makes!!

 Josephine is such a HUGE reader! We must read about 20 "stories" a day... She is constantly bringing me "stories" to read to her. She crawls right up in my lap & turns the pages for me. It's so fun!
B/c of this, her vocabulary is AMAZING... I think she says 3-5 NEW words a day. She is repeating a lot of what we say to her... which causes us to now spell things if we don't want her to know what we are saying...
Example... the girls LOVES baths!!! So if we are taking a bath that night & Josh & I need to say the word bath... and it's not quite time for the bath, we have to spell it b/c if we say it, she will crawl SO fast to the bathroom & hike her leg up over the tub to take a bath! clothes & all... it's so funny!
She is so smart... it blows my mind!
I've been lacking on sharing some pretty big things lately...
She now says her name... started when she was about 15 months old... "josie" that is... not quite ready for "Josephine" yet... haha
She says "Harley" & "Roxy"... our dogs names.
When she wants to go "walking" she just says... "alking"... on repeat! haha
She took her first step by herself yesterday!
She's been getting herself up from a sitting position to standing w/out assistance from us or something to pull up on for about 3 weeks now... and she does it constantly & loses balance & plops down on her bottom & then does it again... over & over...
Yesterday all I had to say was,
"Josie, can you stand up?"
She stood up. Then I said,
"Josie can you walk?"
She took her first solo step!
Then plopped down on her bottom!
And we clapped & said "Good Girl!" and celebrated!
Oh, and her first 2 word phrase she said was...
"Good Girl"...
She is just like her daddy...
She is a "words of affirmation" girl for sure...

So those are some of the latest happenings...
OH... if you haven't seen this blog post on our Ulmer Studios Blog, you MUST...
especially if you like bare bottom babies...

Wow, so I caught everyone up on a lot!!
What's been going on in YOUR life lately??

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Id like to get a conversation going in the comments! Ill be reading & commenting to everything! Think it would be fun if we conversed through the comments!