Josie Folsom DeLoach

Saturday evening my sweet GREAT Grandmother passed away. While this is very sad for those of us still here on earth, I couldn't help but imagine her happy reunion with her husband who passed on 14 years early, her daughter Betty Jo and her sister, Aunt Jean who passed on only a few short months ago, and other family members who passed on before.
When my little Savannah was born I insisted on going to Florida to get a 5 generation picture. As soon as we could we (my mom, grandmother, myself and Savannah) all went to Florida to see my Great Grandmother (Josie). I am SO thankful we were able to do so.

I only have a few memories of my Great Grandmother since most of my time spent around her was when I was very young. But I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity I had to get to know her.
Probably one of my favorite memories while we were there was when she passed by the bathroom when I was straightening my hair. She gave me a funny look and said "You are straightening those beautiful curls" I said yes, and asked if she wanted me to straighten her hair. She laughed and said "NO!" I will never forget the sound of her voice.
Then one night she was cutting carrots to go in a soup for dinner. I came in and started snatching up a few carrots to nibble, while Grandmother teased me about stealing the carrots Great Grandmother said "They are good, aren't they!"
While we were there she decided she would crochet a pair of baby booties for Savannah. It only took her a few hours to make them! I was so impressed. It was So sweet of her to make them and leave something here for us to remember her by.

OOPS!

Savannah jumped off the potty before she was done. As she was walking out of the bathroom, in the nude, she peed right where the carpet started! She ran from it yelling "ew ew ew" I was dying laughing!!! She continued to say "pee pee, pee pee, ew!!!" in a very panicked tone. I only wish I had caught it on video.

Great Morning!

This morning Savannah and I ate our breakfast on the patio while watching the rain! We had a blast and Savannah LOVED it. She kept looking over at me and giving me her biggest cheesy grin. The one where she tilts her head back so all you can see is her chin, smile wide and eyes squinted! LOVE IT!

Then we planted our garden. Savannah likes to help me water it. She points to the dirt and says "EW!" (her new favorite word!)

PS

Some day when I either find my lost camera or can afford a new one this blog will have pictures again!

Screams of Terror

I laid Savannah down for a nap yesterday, everything had been quiet for over 30 minutes when I heard her screaming in terror! I thought for sure she had finally tried to climb out of her crib and had somehow hurt herself. Something that I know will come someday soon as her monkey climbing skills improve. However, when I got into her room I found her standing in one corner of the crib screaming and crying and pointing to an object on the other side of the crib. I look closer to find a dirty diaper she had taken off herself! I just pray she continues to be scared of dirty diapers, it's less messy that way!!!!

WHAT?!

Savannah and I were enjoying a beautiful afternoon, just waiting for the brownies to come out of the oven, when suddenly I hear a VERY familiar sound. I hold my breath!
IT COULDNT BE!!!
IT IS!
DDDDDRUMS!!!
Just when I think I've escaped the noisiest thing in the world it comes knocking at my door! A neighbor has drums! IN the apartment!!! Is that legal!? And poor Chris was trying to sleep. However, they are not as loud as they were when they were in the same house. THANK GOODNESS!!!

CHOCOLATE!!

Homemade chocolate frosting and banana's! Life doesn't get better than this. I sure hope when I get to heaven that there's chocolate and that eating it doesn't add to my waistline, or butt! Once when I was little I promised God that I would be REALLY REALLY good if he would have a chocolate bar (not just a single bar, like buffet style bar) waiting for me when I got there...how silly of me.

SOPHIE!!!

So we bought our very first dog today! I am SOOOOOO excited I can hardly contain it. We aren't going to pick her up though until after we move the first week of April. The story of how we got Sophie couldn't have played out more perfectly. Chris works nights, so we we're looking for a buddy to be at the house and make me feel safe. That's when Chris got really hooked on dobermans. The thing is a good doberman can range from $1,800-???. And that doesn't include shots, etc. We were pretty convinced we would buy from this breeder in VA. But they were selling their dogs for $2,500. Which is a lot for poor college students. We called another breeder who lives about 1 1/2 from us to see what she had available. She didn't have any puppies, but when Chris explained the situation and what we were looking for she said she might have a solution. She had 3- 6yr old female dogs that she was done breeding that she was trying to place in a home (and was selling them A LOT cheaper). So we planned on coming down for the weekend to check them out and see if one would be a good match for our family. Well...we weren't able to go down over the weekend but set up an appointment to go down today.
When we got there she had even better news. A lady who had bought a dog from her 3 years ago was moving and couldn't take the dog so she had brought her back for the breeder to find the dog a new home.
She is as sweet as can be. Already trained, mellow/yet not boring, loves to cuddle (its like she cant get close enough to you) and LOVES to please. Her and Savannah hit it off right away. Sophie (the dog) came up to Savannah and Savannah went right up to her and kissed her on the nose, it was the SWEETEST thing! Sophie was VERY gentle with Savannah. We are VERY excited to be able to bring our Sophie home...not till April though! The breeder was nice enough to hold on to her for us until we moved out of my parent's house.

SO EXCITED I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN IT!!!!

Airplanes and Cars

We went to Idaho this last week. Poor Savannah was SOOOO sick of the driving by the time we got home. Poor kid! Surprisingly she did GREAT on the plane ride home. The only time she really even cried was when she pulled the tray in front of her down and it smacked her in the face...so she had every right to cry! She made a few friends with all the people behind us.
She was very entertained with her train book she got from Aunt Julia, Uncle Randy, and cousin Parker for her birthday. We drove the train on the tray table and say "CHOO CHOO" she would giggle every time I said "choo choo!" Thank you Randy, Julia and Parker!
At one point I was reading a book with her. Baby's First Colors, each page has a different color theme with pictures of something in that color. On the yellow page there was a picture of a banana and three other yellow items. She grabbed at the banana and "shoved" it in her mouth with a gulp sound. I was laughing SOOOO hard. I've never seen her do that before and frankly I have NO idea where she got it from. Then she did it again, only this time put her hand up to my mouth as if to feed me and said "Mmmmm".

Belly Button

Today in the bath tub Savannah discovered her belly button! It was SO funny, she kept pinching it as if to try to pull it off. She even attempted to say belly button, but it came out like "bee bum". The rest of the evening was spent asking her where her belly button was!

She also has a new love of pillow fights! I haven't seen her laugh that hard since we visited my grandmother's dog!