As of me writing this on Saturday night (I am super cool as I blog on Saturday night, duh, right before I go to bed before 10) I am now caught up on my photo blogging. I thought some family might enjoy some more photos from the holidays. Note the big huge dog Zeke, he’s about 120 lbs and was really unsure of what to make of the baby. He got very upset when she cried and oddly he didn’t clean the floor after she ate, guess sweet potatoes and green beans just weren’t his thing that night.
Abby, Jen, Josie, Ally and Grandpa playing
Grandpa walking the baby, thank goodness those days are over
Meal time!
Jordi Josie and Jen playing with Josie’s stocking
Jeff commanding his dog Zeke
Zeke v. baby
Classic holiday board games
Actual photo of my aunt and uncle who dodged so many!
Also at Xander’s birthday party Josie had an odd fascination with a plastic card. She repeatedly held it up in the air as if she were bidding on something at an auction and let out a scream! We couldn’t quite get it on video unfortunately.
She’s been growing like crazy lately and now this outfit below no longer fits at all, it was already busting at the seams for this shot. In fact at the mom’s group last week she bent over to pick something up and her overall snaps covering her bum popped open. How embarassing! Thankfully those pants still have another button to leave room to move and grow.
No this isn’t about making a jam for your baby, or making jam out of a baby. Instead, earlier this month we went to a fun birthday party for our friend Xander. He loves playing the drums like his dad and so at his party we put together a whole baby rock band. As you can see from the video they are wildly popular and successful since their pictures were taken almost constantly (note the flashes). Let’s hope the band all stays together.
Are you sure I’m supposed to eat cake?
Appreciating his presents even if they are clothes
Josie now seems to reliably understand one word and what a sweet word that is! She knows what a kiss is. We tell her to kiss her friends and she quickly gives them a smooch. She also kisses all cats, dogs, pictures of the above, and the koala in her book because it is also fuzzy.
Following the holidays Josie now has a large amount of toys and so we wanted a place to put them so I don’t trip over them like I did the other day. We went down to IKEA and found some fairly easy shelves and drawers that she can enjoy and abuse. My parents helped us put them together although they were actually not that hard to assemble contrary to usual IKEA! Here’s a quick video of her checking them out for the first time as they were assembled at night after she went to bed. The following picture is the mess about three minutes later.
I’ve gotten a bit behind in the food photos department, although they’re all starting to look the same so it’s not so much fun. We’ve been trying lots of new foods and basically Josie still is preferring the old standby of broccoli, rice cakes, and potatoes and seems moderately eager about carrots and sweet potatoes. From the title you can see we’ve tried a bunch of new foods and pretty much all of the fruit was summarily sent to the floor after trying it. The blueberries did a pretty good job of painting her face. The oatmeal was fairly interesting to her although the spoon concept was thrown to the floor. Instead I just make the oatmeal thick and put it in a pile in front of her and she dug in. She seems to have my food preferences quite a bit, man the peach was sour. Can’t wait until we get back to some new vegetables rather than all these fruits although I am doing a good job trying new fruits this way too.
Josie eating blueberries and rice cake
Final results of the blueberries - note the eyebrow
Josie has learned to play peek-a-boo herself! She actually first demonstrated the skill while in the car on the way to Pennsylvania. She previously would pull the blanket down from herself or you to ‘find’ you, but now she pulls the blanket up herself to hide.
Today she also played a fun game of ‘find the daddy’ or as I apparently incorrectly called it according to the daddy, hide and seek. Since she can walk she can follow your voice and come find you, which is great because separation anxiety is kicking in big time! She’s doing the typical shy kid pose of literally grabbing your pants and hanging on. Here’s just a cute video of her from a month ago laughing and walking. Somehow I swear George always gets himself in the background of the videos.
As promised by previous posts, we took Josie out sledding when it snowed before. We bought two sleds as we weren’t sure which one would work best while holding her, and so we could have races. Josie seemed to enjoy herself but was a little shy about it. She basically just becomes a passive ball of goo whenever we put her in her snowsuit. First video is of a race which Jordi won for speed, Josie and I won for distance and accuracy. Neither one of my parents were as brave as the baby as refused to go down the mini-hill.
Actually one of my favorite embarrassing stories (for Jordi) I like to tell is the first time he went sledding. We were at CMU and went down the hill together. We were headed directly at a tree and I was in front so I threw one arm out to the side to get us to turn. Jordi sensed us turning and panicked and put his opposite arm out to straighten us out! Then I of course wasn’t going to collide with the tree if I could help it and had to throw all four of my limbs overboard to just stop us. So Jordi, sledding, and steering seem to have been an issue from day one.
What did I say yesterday about Josie having two teeth? because today she has three. Top right one came in overnight, what a fun fun night we had!
I caught a rare glimpse of this odd creature that is occasionally crawling like a crab now. I just happened to have the camera on to see Josie do this funny trick to get herself onto the rug so she could stand up easier.
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