Josie's 36 month stats: 39 lbs, 4T/5T in clothing, size 4/5T in pull-ups (as featured in the above photo, oops), size 8.5 shoes, official Preschooler!
Josie's favorite book: Cooper's Big-Kid Day (we affectionately refer to this as "Cooper the Pooper" because...reasons.)
Josie's new sentences and vocab. She is completely communicating now using large and small sentences, but these are this month's greatest hits:
- "Mama, you're so kind so me."
- "I love Elsa and Anna. When I was a baby, Elsa used to hold me."
- "Oh Mama, LOOK! A rainbow! I've never seen one before. It's so beautiful."
- Me: "Josie, what part of your body do carrots help?" Josie: "My eyes!"
- "Let it go, let it go, here I stand and here I stay. The cold doesn't bother me away!" (see the rest of this story below)
- "Why? (I answer) But why? (I answer again) BUT WHY MAMA (I fall over)?"
- In the last month, we've noticed that Josie talks in her sleep. So far we've heard "cookies" and "Peppa Pig!!!"
Josie's new tricks
We have a preschooler! I love that she wants to be a "grown up" when she grows up. That tells you everything you need to know about this spunky little gal. I don't know what sorcery other parents use to generate the obediently smiling children next to their carefully crafted back to school sign photos but please send that magic my way.
Jonas' stats: 17.6 lbs, 25.5 inches; 9 mos in clothing, size 3 in diapers, hazel eyes, continued male-patterned baldness.
Instead of vocab we'll review his likes and dislikes:
Likes: His office, bath time, his hand (#1 fav right now), his chiropractor visits, drooling
Dislikes: When he gets too tired, the process of falling asleep (still)
Tolerates: Josie's very close thisclose! kisses and hugs, the Bumbo, sleeping
Jonas' new tricks
He can go from sitting to standing (with help)! He is a super strong little guy. I have a feeling we'll have an early walker. Still, if he's sitting and holding on to two hands, he'll trigger the standing part and likes to stand more than anything else right now.
Grammy and Grampy visited like they always do for Josie's birthday parties and we had a great time with them - from inverse twinning...
to a multi-tasking role play session.
We get to see them again for Thanksgiving and hope they bring Cousin Pierce. He and Josie exchange shrieks and play the occasional game of Show and Tell with the nearest toy over Skype most weekends, and Josie promised to share her toys when he comes! Let's see if that promise is retained over a few months.
Finally, we decided to go on a road trip for Labor Day. I'd been to Salado once before but didn't really remember much about it. We mostly played with puppets and had sweets but it was a good test for our new wheels!
Until next time!
Xoxo,
J Quad
We have a preschooler! I love that she wants to be a "grown up" when she grows up. That tells you everything you need to know about this spunky little gal. I don't know what sorcery other parents use to generate the obediently smiling children next to their carefully crafted back to school sign photos but please send that magic my way.
Princess Belle wished Josie a happy birthday! You should have seen Josie watch this video and nod in response to the rhetorical questions Belle asked. J and I were dying. I think we'll need to book her for next year's party!
Josie can give herself a pedicure! I say this without hyperbole but she is better than I am at painting her toes. Embarrassingly so.
Lastly, we discovered Frozen and have since watched it 13 times. THIRTEEN. Somehow I am discovering nuances each time because I'm half paying attention for each run but GAH. I did take some interest in the characters and learned I 100% shared lunch with Olaf (Josh Gad) for his entire senior year of high school and my freshman year of college since his h.s. and my college shared a cafeteria so that's a fun fact.
Actual photo of the Nova Southeastern University cafeteria
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Jonas' stats: 17.6 lbs, 25.5 inches; 9 mos in clothing, size 3 in diapers, hazel eyes, continued male-patterned baldness.
Instead of vocab we'll review his likes and dislikes:
Likes: His office, bath time, his hand (#1 fav right now), his chiropractor visits, drooling
Dislikes: When he gets too tired, the process of falling asleep (still)
Tolerates: Josie's very close thisclose! kisses and hugs, the Bumbo, sleeping
Jonas' new tricks
He can go from sitting to standing (with help)! He is a super strong little guy. I have a feeling we'll have an early walker. Still, if he's sitting and holding on to two hands, he'll trigger the standing part and likes to stand more than anything else right now.
He's returned to sweet, easy, mellow Jonas. When he was first born, the nurses remarked that he was so quiet and peaceful. Then he had some of mama's milk and howled for 2 months. Now...he's BACK! He's so much fun and his giggling is so stinking cute. His drooling is less cute and definitely more plentiful.
(insert photo)
In other Young family news...
In the spirit of turning 3, Josie sort of accidentally had 3 birthday parties. Here's outfit #1 for party #1, compliments of Grammy and Grampy. I truly didn't mean for 3 parties to happen but learned a very valuable lesson: don't do that thing again. By party #3 I think we were all feeling about the same as her T-H-R-E-E balloons. Also, party 3 was a pool party and it monsooned for the first time it rained at all in over a month so there was that.
to a multi-tasking role play session.
We get to see them again for Thanksgiving and hope they bring Cousin Pierce. He and Josie exchange shrieks and play the occasional game of Show and Tell with the nearest toy over Skype most weekends, and Josie promised to share her toys when he comes! Let's see if that promise is retained over a few months.
Finally, we decided to go on a road trip for Labor Day. I'd been to Salado once before but didn't really remember much about it. We mostly played with puppets and had sweets but it was a good test for our new wheels!
Until next time!
Xoxo,
J Quad
