On a walk, perhaps pushing your daughter around in a stroller, you see cash on the ground on the sidewalk of a side street off a main road. You look around, there’s no one there. You pick up the cash and count it, $15. Not a lot, not quite pocket change. It’s all folded up like it fell out of someone’s pocket. What do you do with it?
Looking back at old photos, we’ve noticed Josie has really gotten a lot of hair lately! Not long enough yet for people to stop calling her a boy though.
Last weekend, for our (6th) anniversary I planned a weekend away for us on Cape Cod. On Friday afternoon I picked Jordi up from work and surprised him with a whole packed up car and a weekend full of plans. We stayed at the Cape Codder Resort which was fine as far as a hotel goes, but its main attraction is that it has an indoor wave pool, huge hot tub, and 2 indoor water slides. We love to play in the water so this was a major plus for us as it’s still cold here up in New England! We had a nice time exploring Hyannis but mostly just taking the weekend nice and slow and not having to cook or clean for ourselves.
Josie loved the pool. When we showed it to her the first night we arrived she had an absolute fit when we tried to leave. By the end of the weekend she was practically running into the water.
We also went to the Zooquarium. It is pretty small but a decent starter zoo. They have mostly animals that are very accessible to small children (i.e. pig, cow, goat, sheep, chickens, raccoons) but you do get the feed a bunch of them. I fed them, we let Josie keep her fingers for sure through her first birthday.
Here’s some fun Josie photos:
You might think those two words don’t go together but I’ve been enjoying cloth diapering Josie, well as much as you enjoy diapering. Thus far we’ve used pre-folds that someone else washes for us. I’m considering washing our own now that Josie doesn’t use as many. There are a huge number of different kinds of diapers out there in cloth beyond the basic pre-fold diapers and covers. I went to the local store called Diaper Lab and signed up for their two week trial program so I can try out 8 different kinds of diapers and see how I’d like it. I’ll let you know how it goes. Josie thought it was a blast!
Congrats to Craig! Ouch to Jordi’s leg.
Last year, three days before Josie was born, we went to the Sheep shearing festival at the Gore Place in Waltham. We even taunted Josie via the blog about what she was missing. We’re hoping to go again this year, it’s on April 25th and we’d love to see others there, so drop us a line if you’re going. We’ll likely go earlier in the day and over lunch.
Josie is 11 months old today! I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since she was born. It’s so great that it’s getting warm again though and we can go and play outside. She is still fairly hesitant on the playground. She is most comfortable with our home playground and will actually walk around without me. At other playgrounds she requires that we carry her between places to play. Her favorite thing is the swing, she’ll swing for 20 minutes at a time watching the older kids play basketball. She also likes to walk up and slide down the slides. She’ll also chase a ball around the basketball court. Another mom and I noticed that our kids always head right for the concrete to walk on rather than the nice non-head-bashing mulch — we figure that the concrete is much easier for our new walkers to balance on.
Josie continues to love books and asks to be read to very frequently. She still is very excited by books with flaps to lift open and close. She also loves to play with blocks like lego and mega bloks, although putting them together is still a challenge. She mostly loves to knock them down, knock them together, and tear them apart.
She finds sneezing to be hilarious now. I find it very useful for getting her to smile in pictures! She rarely likes to smile at cameras and actually grimaces when she sees one because of all the flashes.
She has learned how to start controlling us and her world. She’ll grab my hands and make me clap or play peekaboo! She also holds my hand while walking up and down the sidewalk. Or tonight she pushed her stroller the length of the mall (remind me why I bother to bring it), hopefully she’ll sleep well!
Josie has demonstrated a wider variety of words lately that she understands, here is a list as we can figure them out:
She has made no sign that she actually understands the word mama although she says it frequently. I’m surprised she hasn’t made any sign that she understands ‘change your diaper’ either since that’s such a frequent one.
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