It already happened once with Connor’s stitches and although the person was pleasant enough, I’d rather not repeat it. You’ll recall he took a little spill in day care and ended up with three blue stitches on his little red eyebrow.
Josie is now full-fledged crawling. Not the commando crawling which I believe is safer and lower to the ground, but full-extend-the-elbow crawling. Additionally she wants to crawl to Connor and either touch/grab anything he’s playing with or put it in her mouth. Finally, she’s also pulling herself up on everything to a complete stand. She thinks she’s way more coordinated than she is and is okay going up the sunken living room steps, down….not so much. So right now she looks like an MMA fighter with a little mouse over her right eye.
Connor has also realized he can get away from her by climbing the steps, and of course she goes after him. Although he is a sweet little boy most of the time, he doesn’t dig sharing Thomas train engines or his “Mater” tow truck. He has now mastered, “NO JOSIE, NO!!”
His new technique for dodging Josephine is not helping her avoid looking like Rocky I, II, III, okay all of them. She’s mostly tough and only cries for a little while until someone picks her up or gives her a puff (Puffs are the new organic fruit cheerios for those of you out of the game). So the baby corral is up and it’s like reliving the Connor crawling dangers. The difference is she’s so much further along physically than Connor. I mean WAY ahead. At least Connor was stronger and little older when he attempted some of the things Josie is doing. He’d been in the exer-saucer for four months and the Johnny jump up for about the same time.
We’ve been taking them to the pool quite a bit and Josie just loves being in the water in her little float. She kicks her legs in the big pool and actually walks along like a walker in the baby pool. And she’s pretty good at controlling her direction. Connor was very skittish last summer, but has turned into a little water bug. We stumbled upon a swimming class last weekend and a kid just a few months younger than he was screaming about being in the water. Connor very sweetly asked, “What happened daddy, is he okay?” Meanwhile Josie is doing synchronized swimming in the corner. All in all we’re having a fun summer (although if any of you could send some rain this way we could use it). Connor loves running around and Josie is trying to emulate Connor using her head to cushion her fall. Actually it isn’t that bad. She’s pretty good with two hands, it’s when she tries to hold something or put it in her mouth while standing that she might lose her balance and do the face plant. She’s still beautiful and chunky. J
And on July 4th, Connor and Josie were in a little Independence Day parade. Mom’s little dog Delilah also rode around in the wagon. Connor and Josie loved the attention, the ride, and all the candy that went along with being the “talent.” Of course getting him to stop eating candy and calm down was quite an adventure. Mom doesn’t help at all in the sugar department. She sneaks him M&Ms, mints, and other things in which she claims her status as a grandmother exempt her from parental policies and mandates. When mom said, “Connor will give you 5x what you did to me,” I didn’t think she was going to jump start it with cupcakes and egg him on. Isn’t that cheating?
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