Well looks like my previous post could have been called, spot the geeks among our friends and loved ones. Plus the closeted geeks that emailed me the answer separately, you know who you are. The CMU crowd came out in force. For those complaining about the lack of a single possible solution, yes, common sense was required. When I next get their height’s confirmed I’ll have to do another word math problem that’s a bit trickier. The correct answers were 16 and 32 lbs.

Here’s what the girls look like, well, today. Took this shot this afternoon on a rainy day where Josie was being a little to rough with everyone and Celia couldn’t stop whining that she can’t get up and walk away. She’s literally trying to rock herself to her feet while she sits. They’re asleep, we made it through.

Josie has done a few funny memorable things lately. First she’s decided ‘fancy’ dress means running around in her skivvies. Two girls walking and running around naked after dinner has become the norm here.

Yesterday at brunch, we went to Flora, yummy as always, she was alternating between eating whipped cream and lentil soup. Not exactly what I picked to eat.

Josie has a very good memory. But somewhere along the way she decided to update the story of how Celia got her name and why. Now she tells everyone that she named Celia. She decided that Cecilia was a good name and she decided that would be the baby’s name ‘before she even saw her’. Plus any more children we are to have (a boy has been requested) are also to be named Cecilia. I’m just glad she continues to claim Cecilia as her own sister.

Yesterday was a beautiful day that finally felt like real spring, we went to multiple parks and I brought along my camera to entertain myself. Here’s my best shots. Josie is above me as you can tell from the photo, and I am not bending down. She climbed up into the tree at Magnolia park that broke with the big storm last year and is holding onto the crevice. Celia is wearing jeans for the first time in her short life, I’ve had to move onto the 6-12 months clothes now.

About time I should finish this project, but I had such a hard time picking a photo for this last day, the future. What will it hold? I’ve already got pictures of Josie in her current chosen profession (doctor) so I went instead with this traditional family reading session in Josie’s bed. We were reading a simple book by one of our favorite authors Mo Willems. While Celia is still trying to eat all the books and will be for some time, she still like the pictures and Josie loves to memorize the stories and recite them back to us. Reading together is always one of my favorite times to day.

Today’s a two for one shot! We’ve had some snowy day with poor light and busy mornings with no great pictures, so I combined two assignments into one. Bromance is supposed to show who they love, other than you, that they want to spend time with. Daddy definitely qualifies. In addition, I’m supposed to capture what they say, and that only takes one letter to show what Josie says a lot, Y. That’s what she’s hugging in her hand.

Sorry for the crummy lighting from 3 different sources and colors. I’m hoping to finish up tomorrow with a good one.

This photo was supposed to be about what they do for you to make you happy. Josie, being 2, doesn’t do much for me explicitly as she believes the world revolves around her as is developmentally appropriate. But one of the things she gives me in my life that makes me happy is watching her discover how the world works and learning new things. Lately she’s returned to her fascination with puzzles, especially while she’s by herself during quiet time. She has a few two sided puzzles and she has learned that if she puts it together on one side, if she carefully takes it apart and flips it over piece by piece she can put it back together very quickly to see the other puzzle, and again and again. She’s very quick with puzzles these days. She had lost interest for a couple of months but now they seem to be back in full swing. Here she is putting together a pets puzzle. She quickly objected to the photos, so she would not look at me.

Yesterday afternoon I stepped outside of my comfort zone and helped Josie plant some seeds in some dirt, on our dining room table. It’s too cold to go outside, but it’s time to get these seeds started so we can have some plants come summer. We planted zucchini, basil and impatiens. Josie is very excited for the zucchini pasta and pesto to be forthcoming from these plants. Let’s hope they grow. I am not known for my green thumb. Nor am I one to like a mess, this was a challenge for me to make it work. Josie did a good job listening mostly and not spreading the dirt around too much. Mio only made about three trips walking through the dirt that was inevitably on the floor. Next time I am going to presoak the dirt so it’s all wet instead of having to mix it up in these tiny containers.

I really do prefer my dirt outside. We were supposed to do this with friends but I’m glad we got a trial run without anyone there first. The other thing I’d change is get more plants with bigger seeds for the kids. The zucchini was great, huge seeds to push into the dirt. The other two were TINY and basically were just sprinkled on top, I did some and who knows where the one’s Josie added ended up. We’ll see what grows!

Today’s photo was supposed to show where you met or fell in love with your person. I wasn’t headed back to the hospital for just a photo so instead I had Josie put on the hospital baby blanket that those who birth at Mt. Auburn in Cambridge will recognize I’m sure. I continued to have some more cooperation issues with getting some photos, she either didn’t want to smile or wanted to just about be touching the lens. Here Josie is wearing the blanket like a cape, pretending to be a baby crawling on the floor.