Josie's 30 month stats: 36.5 lbs, 4T in clothing, size 6 diapers, size 7 shoes, 38 inches tall
Josie's favorite book: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Josie's new sentences and vocab. She is completely communicating now using large and small sentences, but these are this month's greatest hits:
-I'm not sad. I'm not crying anymore. I'm happy!
-I have the vuh-vuhs! *This is something Jonathan onomatopoeia-ed to describe chattering teeth.
-We have to hold hands, otherwise we'll fall down (the stairs).
-It's NOT funny! *Josie does not like the idea of being laughed at, which is fair, but she should serious consider being less funny.
-That's my mama. She looks like a chicken! *She was reacting to the below photo.
This might be the best example of this little lady's imagination and speech:
If you want to learn about Josie instead of Princess Belle, I give you: Interview with a two-year-old
Josie's new tricks
She is potty trained at school! Jonathan asked Josie what kind of big girl panties she wanted and so we have 7 pairs of Peppa Pig. Josie only sometimes remembers to tell us she needs to go potty at home and we're not pushing it. When she does remember, holy CELEBRATION! Maybe by the next blog I'll be reporting full-on Peppas!
She feeds goats! We visited the Zoo and Josie decided to share her snack of goldfish with a giant goat.
Josie officially wants to be the big sister or the kid in our imagination sequences, but no longer the baby. She often wants to create space for baby brother to participate in our imaginary games, which is just the sweetest. Now if we could only make her realize pyers and babas are for babies...
She's intentionally funny. She works hard for laughs and knows the kinds of actions that will elicit the with-you not at-you laughter. Let me tell you what: if this kid turns out to be funny and kind - well, there are few things that would make me more proud.
Speaking of tricks, Josie's discovered magic! We went to a birthday party and met a magician who needed validation - Josie happily pulled that rabbit out of her hat. After every trick Josie shouted "MAGIC!" at the top of her lungs; her ooohs and ahhhhs were equally endorsing. The magician kept saying "Oh, I like you" to Josie. She was probably his biggest fan in all 57 years of his life.
In other Young family news:
We got a visit from Auntie Ashie! Josie is growing fonder and fonder of her sweet Auntie (who lives in Brooklyn) and it was so adorable to watch them play together.
This little fellow is growing and this mama is R-E-A-D-Y. Well, I'm 31 weeks pregnant but I've been ready for 24 of those weeks; I'm only discounting those early 7 weeks because I didn't know I was with child. Also, if you don't have maternity overalls and you're expecting (or frankly, even if you're not and want some extra tummy space for Thanksgiving) H&M makes magic overalls.
Until next time!
Xoxo,
J Cubed
