Still not quite sure I had the right idea? see exhibit B:

On the good days, I can now get Josie to get to the park quickly by saying ‘let’s run!’ and she’ll run halfway there. Thankfully she’s still nice and slow and gets tired relatively quickly. Still we can now make it to the park (with her on her own two feet) in absolutely record time, rather than the 15 minutes it commonly takes her to walk the two blocks.

Some people like to go to different Thai restaurants and keep trying the pad thai or the crab rangoon at different Chinese restaurants. Josie seems to want to be a bucket swing connoisseur. This week for instance, I took Josie and Janie to the new Cambridge Common playground just outside of Harvard Square. This place is crazy fancy and probably best for bigger kids. It has a merry go round type wheel, except this one is perfectly level to the ground so you don’t run really fast to get it going and then try to kill yourself getting on. It also has benches so that I could take Josie on it comfortably. The playground also has a really funky swing that is like a tire swing except it is a flat platform rather than a tire so you can’t fall through. They also have (non-steep) rock walls, slides, sand, blocks, and water flowing contraptions. What did Josie want to do? She wanted to swing and just take it all in.

[photo credit to my neighbor Chanh]

Three months ago in the beginning of summer:

Now, a lot less baby-faced:

Josie has always liked her books but now she’s able to express herself more verbally and so she’s ‘reading’ the books back to us. For instance, the ‘hey, wake up’ book she gets to the page that says ‘shout: good morning sun, happy morning everyone’ and she yells ‘HI SUN’. So she abbreviates a little. Similarly we say ‘what’s up doc?’ when we play with her bugs bunny costume, she says ‘hi doc’.

Back in August when it was warm, Josie and I had some mom friends and their kids over to my mom’s house. We had fun playing out in the pool and eating some home made pizza from the grill. Sad that those summer days ar gone now although I don’t miss the super hot days either. Fall is just a beautiful time here in new england. Look at those hot moms!

Now on Wednesdays I not only have Josie, but I also take care of her best friend Zach while his mom works. Zach is two weeks younger and about 6 pounds heavier and they have a blast together. It’s going really well to have him around and we both like having a day just full of fun because there’s no way I can manage to do any chores with two one year olds around. Here’s a lunch video of them sharing, if only they could skip out on sharing those germs!

Here’s Josie at 15 months rolling out pizza dough with grandpa (now called ‘pa-pa’, previously called ‘ba ba’). We’ll have to get some more video of her chatting now since she has so many words.