Halloween

Josie pulled off a great first Halloween as a penguin, chosen after her favorite book (OK her favorite book to eat and mangle, but we're not quibbling here). The book is Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton and its' a sweet story of friendship and family between a penguin and a hippo. My good friend Brooke gave it to Josie, and she really does get a big smile every time we read it.

We found the costume for $4 at Goodwill and it fit perfectly. She was game for our photo shoot at my friend Rebecca's house, right up until we plopped her down in a little cemetery scene in the neighbor's yard, and a smoke machine started to envelop her in smoke. Then, she wasn't so sure she liked Halloween!

As of this writing, she is 10 months old (wow) and crawling like a pro. Soon she will be walking, so I'm enjoying this brief period in which I can get things done before she finds something spillable, shockable, chokable, breakable, or otherwise unbaby-able to explore. Soon I will just have to glue myself to her or turn the whole house into one of those padded rooms favored in the asylums, to keep her safe! But make no mistake, she has lots of spunk and I laugh with her every day, and continue to be grateful and amazed that she is really mine, lucky me!! I hope you enjoy the photos!

(By the way, Davey Jones sings the book as a fun little song, you can download it at http://www.workman.com/boynton/.) Sample lyrics: Wherever you go, I'll go there too. Here there and everywhere and always with you. I want to be your personal penguin. //Now lots of other penguins seem to do fine, in a universe of nothing but ice. But if I could be yours, and you could be mine, our cozy little world would be twice as nice.

So true, so true.