Today we had fun playing with a friend’s expensive camera. Can’t wait to get our own hopefully this holiday season! Hopefully I can get better at taking some great shots too 🙂

Today I took Josie and Zach to the Franklin Park Zoo. On the way out I noticed that Zach’s shirt was wet. He seems to sometimes take water in his mouth and then decide he didn’t want to swallow it after all, so he spit it out on himself. I go find his extra shirt to give him some dry clothes and put them on him. Josie insists that she needs a new shirt too ‘shirt shirt!’ and I tell her that her shirt is dry, she doesn’t need a new one. I put Zach in the car seat and come back to get Josie. What does she say? ‘Shirt wet shirt wet!’  and indeed her shirt was wet now. She had sucked on her shirt to get it wet so she could get a new shirt too. Little miss smarty pants 😛

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’.

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!