Josie now weighs more than two of the cats, Kaya (9 lbs) and Mio (10.5 lbs). She’s closing in on Ezzy who is usually in the range of 11-12 lbs and is pictured below. With the tail and the fur though, I think Ezzy still has a wider and longer body, although Josie definitely wins on head size. Once she’s past Ezzy she’ll have a long time to catch up to Fred and George’s size (16.5/17lbs).

Two weeks ago we had my aunt, uncle and cousins in town and we took the nice day Saturday to hike around Halibut point state park and Gloucester and Rockport. Josie slowed us down a little and we were trailing behind a bit as evidenced by these pictures but it was a good trip in all! Can you spot the baby in the last picture?

We caught a smile about two weeks ago. She smiles a lot actually but somehow the camera is too slow to catch it!

Josie had her two month doctor’s visit yesterday. She weighed in at 11 lbs 1 oz and is 23 1/4 inches long. That puts her at about 80ish percentile for height, 60-something percentile for weight and head size. In the last month she’s learned new skills like: following a toy the entire way from her right to left with her head/eyes, coo-ing and making noises like ‘ah-oooh’, she is starting to grab things with some limited success, and her head control is very strong. She still hates tummy time.

One of the baby books says to pull up on the baby’s arms to pull the baby to a sitting position and see the changes each month with her head control. Somehow Josie did not get the message because when I pull on her arms, this picture demonstrates what happens.

Cleaning out my parents’ basement we found a baby sized promotional frisbee! Josie got the hang of it quite well. Bit behind on the blogging/photos so this one is two weeks old.