Tuesday Josie and I made a batch of homemade chocolate syrup together. I’m trying to get the HFCS out of our diet and work towards whole foods as much as I can and the hersheys has the HFCS, and nestle has lots of dye’s so we made our home made stuff out of good quality Penzey’s cocoa. It’s a hit! (served from our supposed-to-be-a-mustard-squirter-so-it’s-yellow-but-who-cares squeeze bottle)

Josie has picked up some funny mannerisms. One recent one is starting sentences with ‘did you know…’ and then introducing a new ‘fact’. I should have written them down because now I can’t remember any of them. I will come back and update when I hear another. But generally her facts in these sentences aren’t quite legit, like ‘did you know that sometimes green lights mean stop?’

I just thought this photo happened to be kinda neat, even with the random expressions.

It’s time for the promised word problem about the girls heights as measured at their last doctors appointments.

The difference between their heights is considered an unlucky number for hotel floors, it’s generally skipped. In fact, if you took that number twice and added 3/4 to it, it would be Celia’s height, and tripled it and added 3/4 you get Josies height back again.

Three variables, three equations, that should satisfy the complaints about the lack of constraints (other than the whole constraint of reality) on the last one.

Celia got her 4th tooth in on Thursday this past week! Her sleep improved for a few days and now I think we’re hitting another development leap either in speech or mobility, she’s getting so much closer to walking, she’ll take a few steps now when forced to.

Celia likes to pull herself up and balance on everything. Including Josie and her clothes. I tell Celia that ‘Josie isn’t stable.’ Now I find Josie telling Celia ‘I’m not a table!’ Took me a bit to figure out why she’d say that.