Here’s Celia playing with some light on the floor after falling down.

Celia likes to help us all brush our teeth. Won’t let us put a toothbrush in her mouth, but if we hand it to her she sticks it right in.

This weekend my parents (with some help from us and my aunt and family) moved my grandmother up to Boston from Florida to live nearby in assisted living. It was an intense many days both in Florida and up here, but she’s now in her new home and will hopefully decide to like it eventually. Some beautiful weather let me take some bright pictures.

Got a few photos of Josie that I just really liked today, for her expressions.

They play nicely, side by side. Celia chewing on Josie’s wooden ipod, Josie playing with her magnatiles.

Then Celia makes a lunge for the toys Josie has. Josie tries to block her, despite the fact that she literally has 100 of those blocks. She wants THAT one. Hear a loud ‘CELIA!’

Then Celia cries, having been thwarted.

See Josie move further away to play, but not really far enough.

Last year for mothers day, I asked Jordi to make this blog into a book. As you may have noticed this blog is pretty much a baby book keeping track of our family activities and milestones, while also updating our friends and family in pain-staking detail. Jordi spent the past year working on it at nights and on train rides during his commute and formatted it into a pdf for blurb.com to print and bind into this fantastic book. It’s over 300 pages and only includes the first two years of Josie’s life. So I should have a nice encyclopedia set by the time we’re done.

Here’s a quick glimpse into some typical playtime in our house. Parents trying to ‘rest’ during playtime. Josie trying to give everyone shots. Celia making funny noises.

Celia has learned how to stand up from the ground. One day later than Josie did. Josie did this on her 8 month birthday, Celia’s was yesterday, but she had a short month (February) in her first 8 months of life and Josie didn’t. So you know… it’s about the same. My kids are crazy. I managed to get it on video though because she had just tried and fallen once so I pulled out the ipod!

That some little girls don’t like umbrellas? Girls wearing old dresses don’t like them. Josie

Celia is progressing on a daily basis now with her walking. If I walk away from her when she wants me, she will let go and start going after me now. Depending on how well rested she is, she can often make it over to me. Or more often I see that she’s walking and I gush over how she’s walking and bend down to pick her up.

This video is a few days old, so she’s even more steady now.