Josie likes the vacuum cleaner for some unknown reason. Or rather she likes ours. My mom took hers out and Josie cried when she turned it on.
She also loves to read. I had to read (the same) book to her no less than seven times last night before bed. I kept putting it back on the shelf when I thought she had finished, and she’d go back to the shelf and pick it up again!
Josie also loves to cuddle with Fred and George. They don’t seem to mind that she lays on them.
I’m behind in the food category, but it just hasn’t been terribly exciting. She’s had a few new things. One fun one though was chickpeas. I introduced it to her in whole form just as a bean to start with. That was a severe disappointment. Then next day I made it into some baby hummus with some cumin, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. I gave her a spoon and a cracker to eat it with and it was a big success! It was also one of the biggest messes she’s ever made. There was hummus in her hair, her ears, and the underside of the seat somehow. She enjoyed it again today for lunch.
One story I hadn’t mentioned a while back was when I was grocery shopping with my mom when Josie was probably about 8 months old. My mom gave Josie a full bulb of garlic to hold to entertain her. Josie (ever the eager eater) decided to take a big bite of the raw garlic. I caught her too late and she had already sunk her teeth into it. And then she went back for another bite. So we know she’s not a vampire!
I’ve got a couple of updates for things I don’t want to forget about!
Josie did a little growth spurt on Sunday night I believe because her bathing suit and high chair straps suddenly got much smaller! She’s also lost her small belly and is super-trim again. She’s eating like a fiend as well.
She’s learned some new skills at swimming. She finally started kicking in the pool and she also did a pretty decent job of floating on her back considering it was her first try. She’s always very serious in the water, the teacher can barely get her to smile, but Josie has never asked to get out.
We play a new game now called ‘Where’s the cheerio?’ in which I hide a cheerio under one of my hands and she has to find it. In a book I read they suggest that you have a pattern and the kid will try to figure it out. I started off with Right Left Left, and found she was always guessing the hand in which I previously had the Cheerio. So I started alternating every time. Then she picked up on the pattern and got it 100% right. Today she had a different strategy and always picked my left hand. I also tried to play the game tonight with peas instead of Cheerios. She repeatedly put my hand back over the pea to cover it and lift it again to see if a cheerio might appear. Then she gave up and picked up the pea and handed it back to me.
She also got her 7th tooth on Sunday, bottom left.
She also now is getting the idea of holding hands in order to lead people. It’s just not always clear who is leading who, and she doesn’t always understand that at some points Mommy has to be the leader.
I was hemming and hawing over getting this dress, but today we went into Old Navy and all infant clothes were $5 making this $20 dress nicely affordable. I think it’s the cutest thing ever, and I’m obviously not biased.
Josie is clearly understanding much more than she can speak. She also plays dumb sometimes as well or pretends not to hear. I can ask her ‘where’s sophie?’ and she’ll dig through her toy drawers until she finds her and brings her to me. She will similarly bring me a book if asked and a ball. I tried asking her for my slippers and she stood there looking skeptical despite the fact that she regularly brings me my slippers unrequested.
Quite honestly, we don’t need to go to the zoo to show Josie some lazy sleeping cats. But we went and had fun looking at the various animals. She managed not to fall asleep right before we saw the coolest animals which was her normal habit last year at zoos.
Her favorite was definitely the black bears. She went right up to the glass and kissed the bear through the glass and then followed it back and forth as it walked. The bear had done some fun rubbing in the mud and on the glass so the picture isn’t the best.
Since Josie now has 6 teeth, I thought perhaps we should start getting her used to the idea of brushing them. So I bought her a tooth brush and tooth paste (toddlers swallowable style). One thing confused me for sure though which was that they had strawberry-banana toothpaste for 6 month olds. For those not up on current food allergy advice, berries are not recommended until after a year. I looked at the ingredients and it only said ‘natural flavors’, so I had to assume it had some kind of strawberry something in it and put it back. It’s amazing how much stuff they sell that doctors say you shouldn’t use. (I had other nicer photos of her using the tooth brush, but this was the funniest)
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