We’ve just passed the 6-month mark with our little Jo-Jo. In that time she’s…
- learned how to walk, crawl, kick a ball, climb, and walk backwards (in that order)
- learned how to play “hard-to-get”. She has only kissed any of us maybe 2 or 3 times TOTAL. If you’re doll, a plastic toy, or a stuffed animal, you get showered with sweet kisses. If you’re a person - you get an “air kiss”. And she knows we want it BAD. I bet she’s holding out for something really, really good.
- developed a great sense of humor. One of her favorite things is to sneak up and ”tickle” people.
- perfected her ability to imitate…machines. Top 3 are the dryer buzzer, the oven timer, and the vaccuum cleaner. No words, just machine sounds. Maybe we should send her to robot school.
- become a complete and total carb lover. Doesn’t it show? She eats most other stuff too, but those carbs are loving her back!! And they said she was seriously underweight when she first got home…ha!
- made all of us in our little family fall deeply and madly in love with her. That minx.
Oh. And she still doesn’t smile for photos. Can’t wait to see what the next 6 months brings! Maybe a grin or two?
OK, so these are from just after Christmas and not this week, but it was cold then and even colder now! But since I haven’t had the camera handy, these will stand in for how pitifully we deal with “winter” here…
Our friends recently got a place down near Galveston, on the Bolivar Peninsula. This area was decimated two years ago when Hurricane Ike blew through, and new places are finally starting to be built where the old ones were quite literally washed away. Anyhow, they’ve invited us down to hang out with them over the holidays and it’s been a great mini-escape for all of us!
It’s much more of a fisherman’s beach than a tourist one, which suits everyone just fine. This time when we went down to visit it was another “quick change” weather series where one day it was balmy, and the next, bitter. Everyone decided to brave the gusts and go looking for shells anyway.
“Uh, Mom? I can’t feel my face anymore. Am I still smiling?”
Poor Josie’s hat kept swiveling around and falling down over her eyes. She managed to have fun toddling around in the sand anyway!