I'm bad at blogging...

So I haven't posted a blog in like 7 months. Way not good, because this was how I was supposed to keep track of progress! Anyway, I'll try a few

Jessica started walking on her own across the house on June 12. Her birthday party on June 14 was lots of fun with all our friends and the pool at Grandpa Earl and Grandma Jackie's house. We went to Branson for David's company vacation trip and got to go to Silver Dollar City on Jessica's first birthday. :) We bought our house here in Springdale that same week, so we moved in as soon as we got back from Branson and we just love it! It is the perfect size for us and a God story, so we love that. Jssica loves it too - plenty of room for her to run around and scatter her toys. lol. It's close to Daddy's work, so she gets to see him for lunch too and she LOVES that.

She is saying all kinds of words now, especially "no", "bye", "hi", "more", "milk", "kiss", "gramma", "daddy", "mama", "papa", "kitty", "meow", "arf", "walk". She says lots of other things, too, but you have to know her to understand them at this point. Like "roll it over" "outside" "patty cake" "jessica". It's great.

She's also figuring out some pretty awesome stuff - like how to change positions to make things work (i.e. spinning daddy in the chair is more easily accomplished using his foot than the armrest). :) She has taken the batteries out of the tv remote, unloaded my bookshelves, opened doors, tries to put her own shoes on and really enjoys brushing her own hair.

Oh, and she loves to read - to herself. She will go in and get her books out and sit pointing to the pictures and talking (telling the story or talking to the pictures or something) for long periods of time. And she really likes it if we put her in the big rocking chair so she can read there. :)

I'm sure there are lots of things I am missing, but I'm just really enjoying being a mom and although it's totally going to escape me before I know it, the experience is a real blessing.