Josie's 34 month stats: 36 lbs, 4T/5T in clothing, size 6 diapers (thisclose to full-time undies!), size 8.5 shoes, a head taller than everyone in her class (she has probably gotten taller since the 31 month post but the rest is the same)
Josie's favorite book: Potty Book by Elmo
Josie's new sentences and vocab. She is completely communicating now using large and small sentences, but these are this month's greatest hits:
- "Mommy, what is that?" about literally every single unnameable thing she sees; the precursor to "Why? But...why?"
- "Meow" - Josie has found her toddler spirit animal and it's a kitten. I'm not sure exactly when the cat entered our lives but I'll be talking to biped Josie one minute and turn around to find a kitty nuzzling me. Josie clearly takes after her Auntie Ashie whose alter ego was Spot the Dog for some time.
- Josie has our home address memorized, which is impressive because it's pretty long and took me a few months to retain.
- "Give me my space." "You're in my space." The latter often refers to our large U-shaped couch. She has claimed all of it.
- "Dada, this bath is too darn hot." #childofanactor
Josie's new tricks
Josie LOVES to dance to The Letter of the Day on Sesame Street. I could probably capture this at least once/day these days.
Josie likes to dress herself, which has two meanings. 1. She has one million sassy a few opinions about what she should wear (spoiler alert, it's not so coincidentally the orange dress featured in the above dance clip), and 2. She actually wants to put the clothes on...all by herself. This often means she will get trapped in said article of clothing and need rescuing, so for this trick she calls on her lovely assistant, Mama or Dada.
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Jonas' stats: 14.4 lbs, 23.75 inches; 3-6 mos in clothing, size 2 in diapers, and BLUE eyes! How I have two babies with blue eyes -- I'll never know. Perhaps I misunderstood the genetics lesson in bio class, or perhaps my uterus misunderstood. Either way, I'm not complaining.
Instead of vocab we'll review his likes and dislikes:
Likes: Bath time, me, swaddling when he's finally acquiesced, being carried in the Bjorn
Dislikes: Car rides, being put down, changing his clothes, going to the doctor, going to sleep
Tolerates: Josie's kisses, Josie's attempts at interaction, being held by anyone else but me
Jonas' new tricks
A trick of months past included scream-crying for hours on end. While truly impressive, it wasn't exactly the most desirable trick - especially because the author of this blog seemed to be the only antidote. Luckily for Jonas' second trick, we learned he is lactose-intolerant. He became a much calmer and easier version of himself once we got him on more agreeable food. This feels a little like The Gift of the Magi for me, his hopeful food source who is home with him for three months and ready to feed. Alas.Instead of vocab we'll review his likes and dislikes:
Likes: Bath time, me, swaddling when he's finally acquiesced, being carried in the Bjorn
Dislikes: Car rides, being put down, changing his clothes, going to the doctor, going to sleep
Tolerates: Josie's kisses, Josie's attempts at interaction, being held by anyone else but me
Jonas' new tricks
He smiles! It lasts for a nanosecond and is sometimes a half-grin but after weeks of blank stares, I'll take it. He also exhibits baby Superman strength - it'll be fun to see how this plays out.
He plays with toys! If you don't have babies, this seems like a non-trick but it's actually an exciting development. Check out Jonas with the sun toy!
I hesitate to record this trick because he's only displayed it twice but then again - maybe I can will this into rotation...he sleeps! Jonas has done one 7 hour and 15 minute stint and another 6 hour block of overnight sleep. For someone who has only slept in increments of 1-2 hours overnight for 2 months, this feels like Christmas....errr, Hanukkah!
In other Young family news:
We had an amazing visit from Auntie Ashie and Uncle Adam! Adam basically fixed everything in our house while Ashley snuggled with the babes.
Jonas had his first flight! The flight attendants were tremendous, as evidenced by the note below. We were pretty apprehensive but it turned out okay. This time.
This flight took us to Boston for Mother's Day and Jonas got to meet Super Grammie, Auntie Karen, and Uncle Joe!
Lacking sufficient transition due to sleep
deprivation, Jonathan and I celebrated three years of marriage! He really hit a
home run for our anniversary.
He made reservations at a fancy Italian
restaurant and then presented me with a scrapbook of our honeymoon to Italy! He
had saved every ticket stub and map, plus printed out all of the photos he
snapped with his phone so I saw the trip through his eyes -- many candid pics
of well-rested me where included that I hadn't seen before. He also saved the
business card of the art shop we visited so I could order a piece for our home
as my main gift. What a guy.
Finally, I present with you the last invisible transition: here's a sweet family photo from our newborn session.
Until next time!
Xoxo,
J Quad
