She's Got The Look

Josephine has started making a new, not so pleasant, face. When she's not happy about something, she will make her eyebrows go down into a mad look. I think it evolved from the rabbit face. There are some pictures below of her doing it. I thought I wasn't supposed to get that look from her until she was a teenager. Oh, well.






Josephine with her medal that she was awarded at The Little Gym. She was so proud.





Josephine Update:

• Josephine has started to walk backwards. It's usually shows up in a game she plays when I'm trying to get her to come to me so I can change her diaper. She'll walk towards me with a smile on my face and when I reach my arms out for her she starts walking backwards away from me. She does it other times too.
• Josephine is now one of the older kids in her Little Gym class. They started a new semester last week. Most of the babies are still crawling. Josephine tripped over and landed on one of them, which I was impressed with. She never watches the floor when she's walking. She finally held onto the bar all by herself! I was very proud.
• She was trying to say new words last night. She almost said "tiger". We knew what she meant, though. It was a two-syllable word and she had the passy in her mouth. She made the "neigh" sound for a horse. There was something else but I can't remember. She doesn't say many words these days. We hadn't had a Baby Einstein video on for a long time so we put one in last night to see if she would like it. Boy, did she ever. It was about numbers and had a lot of animals in it. She clapped after every scene. She's been looking at one of her animal books the past couple days by herself and making all the animal sounds when she sees them. Very cute.

What does a rabbit do?

Josephine and Nathan reading a book and Josephine's response to "What does a rabbit do?".

Video link

I am having problems putting the video on the blog, however, I was able to post it onto another web page. The link is http://natebethjo.bravehost.com/video.html. Whenever I figure out how to post the video I will. (For those of you who have used Google Video, when I put in my username and password to send the video to my blog, it gives me a message saying "undefined". Any idea what that means? It's not on any of the discussion help pages.)

Once I get the hang of this video thing I'll put more on the page. Josephine is moving around so much pictures don't do her justice anymore : ).

Another note on Josephine, last night was the final class for the semester at The Little Gym. Most of the kids are moving up to the next class, but Josephine is still young enough to stay in her current group. The kids were all given medals and placed up on the "podium". It was pretty funny. Josephine has been wearing hers ever since she got it. It hangs down to her knees. I'll put up a picture next time I download my digital pictures.

If you have any problems getting to the video, let me know. I think you can also find it on Google Video. It's called "What does a rabbit do?".

What a mess!

Josephine went to the doctor today to get more immunizations and weighed in at 18 pounds, 10 oz. and 29 1/4" long.

Now that Josephine is officially a toddler, she is making quite a big mess most of the time! Here are some pictures of her recent messes.

Josephine got ahold of the bag of Cheerios and dumped them on the floor.

This wasn't really a mess, but it is still noteworthy. Nathan had a small loaf of bread and put it on the table and left the room for a minute. When he came back Josephine had started eating it. She ate most of the loaf of bread. Nathan took a small piece and Josephine screamed.

We introduced crayons last week. We couldn't get her to color with them, but she loved taking them out of the box and putting them back in. She only put them in her mouth a couple of times.


Last week, Josephine and I took a trip to middle Tennessee to visit some friends and family. Josephine did great riding in the car so much. We drove to Hillsboro/Winchester Thursday morning to visit Jane and Bryan, then to Columbia that afternoon to see Aunt Leah, then to Nashville to have dinner with Kevin, then back to Columbia to spend the night with Aunt Leah and Uncle Brian. After lunch on Friday, we drove back home. It was about a 650-mile trip. Josephine didn't cry at all until about 10 miles before we got home. We were tired, but we had a great trip. It was good to see everyone!

I am still working on putting a video on the web of Josephine. I tried for over an hour today to use google video, but it is taking a very long time to upload. Hopefully later today I'll get it up and post a link (or whatever I need to do, I've never used this service before).

Josephine Update:

• Josephine still has a passion for books. She spends over half of her "playtime" looking at books. Animals are still her favorite subjects.
• Josephine is walking full time now. It's very cute to watch.
• She has decided to stop breastfeeding this past week. "They" say that kids will decide when they're ready to stop so I guess "they" are right. The only problem is that she won't drink milk or formula or water, leaving only juice. Hopefully she will start drinking milk soon.
• She is learning her colors. She knows red and green for sure, I don't know about the others yet. We're still in the beginning stages of the testing : )
• When I am rocking her to sleep (yes, I'm still rocking) I usually sing to her. She knows when a song is finished (and not just the end of one verse) and will say a short "hm" telling me to hurry up and start the next song. If it takes me a few seconds to think of a new song she keeps saying "hm" with a little more emphasis each time. Talk about pressure to perform . . . .
• She is doing better about sleeping through the night. She has her good and bad phases, but she's been having more good phases lately.
• Her hair is getting long (as you can tell from the pictures), but there's not much that can be done with it. If you try to put a bow in her hair she freaks out. (She can't see what you're doing and it drives her crazy.)
• She helps you put on her shoes, socks, and pants. When she's in a good mood, anyway. She lifts up her foot for you to put on her shoes and socks. If there are a pair of pants on the floor, she'll go sit next to them and try to put them on her feet. It never works but it's cute. She eventually gives up on putting the pants on her feet and puts the pants back behind her neck and wears them like a scarf. That is also very cute.
• She can sit down in her seat all by herself. We didn't get a high chair, we just use a travel booster seat that has a tray (it was a great purchase and much cheaper than a high chair!), and if we put it on the floor, Josephine can sit in it on her own.
• Josephine will wave bye-bye now. She used to only do hello. Now, when she's ready to leave, she'll point at the door and wave bye.
• She has no problem with me leaving her with her grandparents or at church. I'll tell her goodbye and she'll wave and usually go back to reading her book. Sometimes she won't even come to me when I'm picking her up, she'll want to stay with whoever she's with.
• I know I've said this before, but Josephine loves to watch sports! She gets so excited when she sees football on tv--she raises her hands for "touchdown!". She does the same for basketball too when they hit the 3-point shot. She and I are going to a Lady Vols game tomorrow night, so she'll be entertained : ).
• She has always been obsessessed with lights. Now she puts her eyes up right next to the light. She has some toys that light up and she puts them right up to her eyes. None of the lights are bright enough to hurt her eyes. It's very cute.

That should be enough updates for now : ) I will post the video or link as soon as I can. (It's of Josephine and Nathan reading a book and Josephine's reaction to the question "What does a rabbit do?".)

Christmas 2006

Josephine had a great Christmas week. We now have enough toys to entertain a small country. Between her birthday and Christmas, she really racked up. Christmas Eve Nathan, Josephine, and I opened our presents to each other then went to the Anderson Farm for dinner and presents. On Christmas Day we went to the Clinton's for breakfast, the Moore's for lunch, back to the Anderson's for Santa's presents, and then back to our house for a movie get-together. Christmas really should be a week-long holiday. I used our new video recorder alot so there aren't as many pictures, but here are a few from the past week.




Josephine has started smiling when she's getting attention and when her picture is being taken. She squints her eyes and shows you her teeth.



Josephine standing next to her new "Sproinga" as we call it. It bounces up and down.


Nathan and Josephine at Grannie's house. Here is another example of her new show-off smile.

Josephine Update:

• Josephine walks most of the time now. Last night she walked about 50 laps around the coffee table. I think she was trying to keep herself awake.
• She's attempting more words. Either that or we're understanding more of what she's saying. She has her own way of saying "What's that?" Every once in awhile she'll say "chicken". She usually attempts the animal sounds before the animal name. Still no "mama". . . . I won't take it personally.
• Josephine still loves books. Especially pictures of animals. Sometimes she'll sit by herself and look at them and other times she'll insist Nathan or I hold them.
• She is loving all of the football on tv this week. She gets excited everytime she see it.
• She has been spending more time with her grandparents, especially this past week. She seems to better for them than for me . . . . I won't take it personally.
• She tries to make the hand sign for "I love you". It's not anything close, but we know what she means. : )

Happy New Year!