Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Santa Barbara highlights

Sitting in her car seat on the Amtrak bus for 4 hrs. She
was tired and ready for a nap but it never happened.

Now on the Amtrak train and a nap of
45 min. finally happened.

Nice view of the ocean. After this my iphone camera
froze until we got back on the train on the way home. 

50th anniversary sock hop
Luke, Karen, Dad, Mom, Katie, Me, & Josie


Father's Day with Papa

Josie wearing the dress I wore at her age.


Josie wearing cousin Lisa's dress that she wore 40+ years ago.

Train ride home. Her car seat was on the floor.
She was in and out, walking around during the 2. 5 hours.
Video of her reading on the train

Josie's favorite thing to do is take her shoes and socks off. 
She can get her shoes on and just now successfully put her sock on. 
She's quite patient and very flexible.

sock on video

Back in her car seat for the 4 hr bus ride.
She did sleep the last 2 hrs.
When we were close to home I said we were going to see da da soon.
She said, "I love da da". It was wery sweet. When she saw him at the
train station she ran up and gave him a hug. 

Saturday, June 18, 2011

50th Anniversary Celebration June 17th

Josephine and I took Amtrak to Santa Barbara to celebrate my parent's 50th anniversary. Their church put on a sock hop on Friday night from 8-10pm. Josie only slept 45 min. all day and then went to bed at 10pm. She did great at the party. Most of the pictures of her were just before we left when I had already put her jammies on so you can't see her cute little party dress. Such a fun celebration honoring my parents. Here's a video my sister put together.

Monday, June 6, 2011

What to do on a June rainy day....

Dress appropriately...


Jump in puddles....

Enjoy a good book in a cozy nook with animals and dolls...

Love your raincoat so much you wear it inside....

Go on an excursion when the sun finally comes out...
Rodin Sculpture Garden at Stanford



Wildflowers on campus

Thursday, June 2, 2011

16 months old

It's hard to believe how quickly each month passes. Josephine talks so much now and not just repeating words but asks for things and names off things she knows like duck when she sees a duck. She says please (peas), thank you, I sorry, without prompting. She nows says 3 word phrases like "I lub you", "I see you", "I get you". At dinner I was eating a big green salad and she asked for some of mine. She said "peas" (please) so I gave her some pieces of lettuce and she kept asking for more. I gave her some edamame which she called "mommy" and when I gave her some green beans she picked up one in each hand and said "two". I don't know who taught her to count but this girl is way above average. She says "no" to a lot of things and does naughty things on purpose so I guess she's "normal" in that sense. This week when she's woken up, with her hair in her eyes, she looks up to her shelf and asks for her Bible. Before nap time and bed she also asks for her Bible. It's a special one Gram and Papa gave her during her first week of life.  She's just now taken interest in it and will sit still for awhile as I read/skim through the Bible stories. For her first reading recently of Go Dog Go and the Cat in the Hat she sat through the whole thing. Those are not short books. Recently reading Are you My Mother she got bored after the first page. When it's sunny she loves looking at her shadow in the morning before getting out of her crib. She says "hi shadow". We're hoping for more warm sunny days.


16 weeks old. Remember how her hair used to stand straight up? She was interested in her shadow way back then. 


She loves watching daddy.






My friend Thea passed on a baby doll stroller and Josie much prefers to be in it herself. This video shows her in it and her foot is "stuck". She says and signs "peas " after asking if she needs help. She does end up putting her baby doll in the stroller but had to trim the video clip to post so this version doesn't show it. Thea also passed along a baby doll high chair which Josie also loves. 


Saying bye-bye to daddy but first says "ew" when daddy and mommy kiss or maybe that was my imagination. She also says "I lub you".



At bed time she asked for her "Hello" music which is from our music class and we have the cd of all the songs. I put it on and she started jumping around. Then she looks up on her shelf and asks for her "Bible". After I tell her tomorrow she says "okay" and then in a sad voice says "Bible".