C squared + J squared = Our Family: July 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Josie's Got Something to Tell You! Read Closely!

Friday, July 23, 2010

In St. Augustince they had this really amazing park; probably the coolest one I've ever seen. However, Josie was a bit young for the majorit of it. She still had a lot of fun though. Next to it was a model ship so well stopped for some picture posing; see the sweat pouring off of us??

Some Fort in St. Augustine

One day we spent in St. Augustine. Our first stop was a fort....it was HOT. Josie's favorite part were these little wooden platforms; she thought it was her stage...she ran, she danced, she laughed. It was very cute to watch.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Florida Aquarium in Tampa

For the weekend, Curt, Josie, and I drove across Florida to the Tampa area to stay with his brother Paul and Curt. On Saturday we went to the Florida Aquarium. The displays were awesome and there were lots of fish and then a special splash pad area for the kids. Josie loved being able to spend the day with her uncles!

The Ocean!!

For me (and I think Josie too) this was the best day of our vacation! It was relaxing and simple and that makes pretty perfect to me. We stayed with my 2nd cousin Michelle in the Daytona Beach area; this is at the private beach at her condo. Josie liked the water if she was in it about waist deep but anything further than that kind of stressed her out. We spent a lot of time playing in the sand and letting the water lap at our feet and toes.

Ponce De Leon Springs

One of our first stops in Florida was to Ponce De Leon Springs....The Fountain of Youth.

We dipped our toes so hopefully that was enough to work magic on the whole body :)

15 Months

Josie had her 15 month check-up last Friday when we returned from Florida.

She is 32" tall--90% and 19 lbs 9.5 oz--6%

A perfect volleyball players build!

She did drop in percentile for her weight so we will do a weight check in a month with the doctor.

A few things about Josie!

1. She can be a charmer--she will wave to passerbys, give her sly little smile, and even gave a stranger at church one of her parmesan goldfish crackers.

2. She loves music and will frequently be caught dancing and shaking her little bum.

3. She is STRONG-WILLED! She likes things her way and to do them independently. She refuses to let us feed her most of the time and will spit out food only to put it in her mouth herself! She will get frustrated with a toy but will get frustrated with the person who trys to help. She will definetly be a leader or a loner to do it her way.

4. Unfortunately she's going through a hitting phase and will wap you if she doesn't like what you are doing to tell you to stop or to leave her alone. Hopefully this is a fast phase because all I see is naughty second grader getting trouble at school (downside of being a teacher)

5. She has about 20 words that people beyond Curt and I can understand; doctor said at this age 4-5 is a norm. Off the top of my head she says mama, dadda, doggy, stop, no, don't, go, nuk, milk, apa for papa, kale for karley, more, hiya, yeah, nana for banana. In the past two weeks she has started saying up and ama for gramma!

6. She knows where her hands, feet, and belly are and other people's noses.

There's so much more I could sing the praises about this little girl but I'll cut myself off as to not to bore everyone else. She's a smart one and is a quick "copycat". You can see her studying things so often. At the doctor's office he was trying to distract her with his flashlight pen and moving it around on her body and she would try to grab the blue spot of light. After about 5 of these flashes she figured it out and grabbed the pen out of his hand. Even he had to call her a stinker for figuring his trick out!