Josie is very proud these days of anything she can help with. One of her favorites is helping Jordi make his lunch in the morning for work. She often helps by reminding him of what goes in it (cheese, spinach, etc) and then taking the spinach they put in the sandwich and putting it on the floor or her tower. Mio likes spinach, and so does George. But of course, so does Daddy.

Both Mio and George these days spend a lot of time in the tower until Josie chases them off with a ‘no Mio, no George’. She’s big into scolding the cats, unfortunately she makes up some infractions that aren’t really a problem.

This photo was taken after she was asked to pick up the tool box behind her and she tried and tried before declaring it ‘heby’. She is amazingly determined to pick up heavy things, she even dragged an entire bag of groceries from the front porch to the kitchen for me. I didn’t ask her to, she just did it, she’s quite the helper.

Josie has finally become useful to the cats. She has learned how to feed them their dry food. It’s been working out great in my mind because she’s exceedingly slow at doing it, I can cook all of breakfast while she does it. I do have to tell her when to stop though or else the bowls end up overflowing everywhere! She also learned how to deal with stepping on unpleasant things and how to get those things off your feet which has been a nice skill for her to pick up so I don’t have to help every time.

Josie has been doing some art these days. She likes crayons, although I have to keep them out of her mouth with some quick maneuvers. Someone is really obsessed with the crayons. Two guesses, but it’s the not the one who plays with the crayons in her chair.

We’ve been having fun with stickers too. I fear the markers, we don’t do that yet.

I’ve heard of puppy love, but this? (that is a lion doll by the way)

Last weekend we went to IKEA and picked up a tunnel now that Josie actually crawls. I think the one’s that love the tunnel the most though are the cats. They go crazy for it at night and love to hide and stalk each other through it. When Josie has friends over it’s very popular as well.

Here’s your birthday present, Larry, since you like to remind us to not forget our first children. We’ve learned that George loves cheese, Fred eats it sometimes, and Mio likes avocado. Josie also likes to offer her food to the cats (I have _no_ idea where she got this habit from).

Not sure? Look closer

Ok maybe stuffed animal could describe multiple things, but only one is made out of cotton.