Hey Hey I'm a Monkey!

Grandshe gave Josie these hip monkey headphones at Easter. At the time, Josie was only 9 months and I couldn't imagine her ever being big enough to use them. Tonight however, after bath we found them in the toy box and started playing with them. When I hooked my i-Pod up to them and played Josie's favorite album (Jack Johnson's Curious George soundtrack), she started dancing all over the place. She LOVED listening to her music. It gave us a little insight to what she'll be like as a teenager listening to her music on her I-pod...

Josie turned 17 months yesterday and is saying and doing new things every day. She makes a monkey face, says moo, quack, baa, ball, baby, Pop-Pop (Grandpa Gleason's name), She is trying so hard to say Jay, and of course mama and daddy have been in her vocabulary since she turned one.

At Church, Josie loves to sing and gets mad when the choir stops. She claps after every song and loves to put her finger to her lips and say "Shhh..." when Grandshe talks during mass.

Our little girl has so much personality. We can't wait to see what she will say and do next!

Josie the Monkey

Josie had a great time at Integer's Halloween party. She wasn't too keen on gathering candy, but she was all over the bananas! On trick-or-treat night we Josie passed out candy in her monkey instead of going to houses collecting it. She loved seeing all the kids in costume. By the end of the night our monkey was getting warm, so she started handing out candy in her diaper.

Our Girl

Josie was sick all weekend. It made for the longest four days for us...and the most vomit I have seen that didn't involve alcohol. BTW said vomit was covering me from head to toe! So needless to say tonight when the three of us were playing and we captured this picture, it was a great feeling. I think we finally have our girl back.

Labor Day Weekend

Josie had a great time over labor day weekend. We celebrated Uncle Rich and Bre's engagement with a fun BBQ celebration. The weather was perfect. Josie wore her beautiful dress that Grammy B got her in Mexico for the party. When we asked her to hold Brody's hand she held her hand out waiting for him to grab it. What a little lady. The day after the party she found the piano and fell in love with pushing the keyboard and making sound. After each little ditty Josie would clap and say "YAAAAH!"

Monkey Sock Slippers

Josie LOVES her monkey sock slippers. She has gotten really good at pulling them off and tries really hard to put them back on. She keeps them on when the nights get chilly. On Sunday I took Josie to the store in her monkey sock slippers as she didn't want to take them off.

Peek-a-boo!

On Saturday we ran to the mall to get cousin Maeve's 3rd birthday present. We got her a lot of fun things to celebrate! Josie was sleeping in her stroller so we had it laid back in recliner mode. I thought she was still sleeping and all of a sudden she popped out of no where! It was pretty cute.

The Perfect Friday...

Friday, 8.8.08 was they perfect day. First of all, Josie turn 14 months! We did a lot of fun things to celebrate. For starters we had a play date with Carter and baby Porter. Afterwards we went to the park for a picnic lunch. Then we hit up the swimming pool where Josie had such a blast we went back the next day with Billy. Finally, after a long nap by both Josie and I, we played in the back yard while cooking dinner on the grill.