Time is getting away from me!

Josie looks less and less like a baby and more and more like the beautiful girl she is destined to be. She's always sweet and loving, including wanting to take care of her dolls -- mimi, as she calls them all -- the same way she's taken care of. It makes diapering, eating and drinking take a lot longer, but it is so heartwarming we just go with it.

Happy Hollow in June

During a recent week off, Josie and I went to Happy Hollow with our friends and neighbors Niko and Kai and their parents Shawn and Nyssa. We rode many rides and fed the goats. Josie was not afraid at all!

The latest news

Josie is starting to say more words, "keys" is a new one lately, and "shoes" and "juice", which sound remarkably similar to one another, are still favorites She is also a master imitator, trying to put on socks and shoes, throwing away her own dirty diapers (yes!!) and putting pants on her head (we'll keep working on that but it sure is funny!). She also helps me wipe up the food she throws on the floor when she's finished with a meal. Little Henry VIII, that one. "I'm finished, wench, away with this food!'' She still loves to read and can point out balls or balloons in any book, anywhere. Ball! Bloon! We are having lots of fun. This weekend we are going to the Oakland Zoo, to check out animals and hang out with our friends Linda and Sophie. Have a great week all!

Josie's Humor

It is so much fun to watch the birth of humor in a little person! Josie now laughs a little mischievous laugh at so many things -- a giant shoe on her foot, a burp (yep, potty humor at 14 months),
taking off her diaper, getting chased by mom, funny noises I make up for the Noisy Bunny book. She leaned in to kiss me recently and burped. Yep, funniest thing in the universe if you ask Josie is to pretend to kiss, and burp instead. It helps if mom laughs uproariously also, which I did. The list of words she knows but doesn't yet say is growing: brush teeth, brush hair, put on shoes, go for a walk, go outside, take a bath, go to the car, listen to the dog. In fact, whenever she hears dogs she joins in --Rrarr rarr. Too bad that's also the sound she makes at cats and birds, but we're working on the distinctions! Too bad, too, that not only am I "mamma'', so are the other two people who take care of her most frequently, her nanny and my friend Brooke. Again, we're working on the distinctions. New photos from her first birthday, the park, and assorted fund moments of late. Hang on, it's a wonderful, bumpy ride!!