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.

Josie had two cute ‘word’ events yesterday. First overnight I am randomly awake to hear her clearly say ‘no doggy!’ while sleeping. She was just asleep, guess she might talk in her sleep like her dad. Yesterday afternoon while I was singing wheels on the bus to her I got to the ‘mommy and daddy’ verse where they say ‘i love you’ and I sang and she said it right back to me! It was very sweet, although clearly just a mimic. I’ll take it!