I Go By Jocelyn. (Josie if I like you)

Let the holiday season begin . . .

2011-12-17T22:17:00.001-05:00

Thanksgiving at the Beach

2011-12-11T21:53:00.001-05:00

Josie Learns to Play Ping Pong

2011-06-29T10:22:00.001-04:00

Hey, I might have the bandwidth to start blogging again!

2011-05-18T18:12:00.001-04:00

It's true. There's nothing like having a girl to teach you that fighting the stereotypes is pretty damn hard. Here she is with two pails that she is using as purses. I missed the photo from moments before when she had the "purses" AND was pushing her doll around in a stroller. . .

Thanksgiving

2011-01-29T08:16:00.001-05:00

A Thanksgiving photo of Josie Jo.

Josie chillin' on the beach

2010-08-21T19:18:00.000-04:00

Party Girl

2010-08-14T19:31:00.001-04:00

Josie goes to eleven.

Jewelry

2010-07-09T17:45:00.001-04:00

Josie Jo has officially turned into a girl. She puts necklaces on and off by herself. I walk away from her and come back and she's found a necklace to put on. These beads left over from July 4th are her current favorite.

10 month's old!

2010-07-08T16:07:00.000-04:00

Josie Jo turned 10 months old yesterday and in honor of the big day, her first tooth began to poke out. She celebrated by eating leaves and a moth. Ok, maybe I shouldn't have left her sitting outside by herself for quite that long.

I did a little research to see what other milestones 10-month-olds often reach, and learned that "most children" crawl by 10 months. Josie has apparently decided, however, that she doesn't wish to be common. She continues to refrain from such plebeian motion. Well, I guess when she has yummy moths within easy reach she really doesn't have a lot of incentive to learn to move, now does she?

Mother's Day Crossover Post!

2010-05-12T15:56:00.000-04:00

Josie Jo and the Bug on Mother's Day.

Josie and her Hair

2010-05-12T15:52:00.000-04:00

You know why girls are fun? Because you can put their hair up!

Information for the Grandparents

2010-05-11T15:19:00.000-04:00

Here's a pic of Josie hanging out in the doctor's office. Her stats are--

Weight: 17 lbs 1.5 oz
Height: 27.5 in
Head circumference: 43 cm

. . .And the first glimmers of summer are here!

2010-05-08T16:06:00.000-04:00

Josie Jo is stylin' in the sun.

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Baby Ducky Heffner

2010-05-01T15:53:00.001-04:00

Getting Physical

2010-04-11T22:06:00.002-04:00

Josie Jo can pretty much not be bothered to roll over, jump in the Fisher Price jumper, or do pretty much anything besides sit, be held and babble. Thus, our incredible excitement that she has finally deigned to hold her bottle all by herself. . .

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Josie's First Music Together Class

2010-04-07T11:42:00.002-04:00

Josie started her first music class today. In fine baby form she mostly sucked on the instruments, stared wide-eyed at the chaos around her, and occasionally grabbed at her brother's hair. Here is a photo of her with Amparo, part of the nanny mafia that helps run my childrens' social life.

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Josie Gets Dressed Up

2010-04-06T16:24:00.001-04:00

Josie Jo is excited about the spring. . .For one thing she's allowed out of the house which is fairly novel for a girl who spent a large percentage of her life stuck inside during the great winter of 2009-10. But also she gets to be dressed up in silly costumes by her parents!

Daddy, YOU'RE FIRED!

2010-01-15T15:12:00.002-05:00

What happens when you have a kid with crazy hair. And a camera. And a weird desire to make your kid look like B-list celebrities.

Tai Chi

2009-12-15T09:09:00.000-05:00

It's a slow process, but if she concentrates really hard, Josie can get those hands into her mouth now. . .

Crossover Post: Teaching the Baby

2009-12-12T09:55:00.000-05:00

Well, I tried really hard to get footage of the Bug trying to teach Josie to clap -- he said "Clap!" several times, and grabbed her hands and tried to make her clap -- but I missed it. By the time I got the camera on, he was teaching her the parts of the body: "Head, eyes, BUTTON!!, knees and toes." It's still pretty good.

Stern Archer Pose

2009-12-02T15:21:00.000-05:00

A Crossover Post: Conversations Between Siblings

2009-11-13T11:54:00.002-05:00

This is a picture of the second conversation that Ben had with Josie. Mostly Ben talks to us about Josie, or pats her hard on the head and yells "Okay! Okay!" to try to get her to stop crying (which, as you can imagine, has just the opposite effect). But he has twice now tried to engage in dialogue directly with her and explain to her about the world.

The first conversation--when she was about 2 weeks old -- was when Ben tried to tell her about the main crush in his life and it went like this: "Music Class! Miss Amy!"

The second conversation took place when I had laid Josie down on the floor on a pillow, and Ben cozied up next to her. Her arm flew out and hit his shoe, and he said "Shoe!" and then proceeded to point out a whole host of body parts. He spent a good five minutes saying things like "Knee," "head," "hair," and "fingers" to her.

. . . and then he picked up her pacifier shoved it in her mouth hard, and made her cry again. Oh, well.

Finger in the Eye, Or How I Learned to Love My Brother

2009-11-09T10:38:00.001-05:00

On the occasional morning, the kids like to join us in bed for some Mommy-and-Daddy time.

On this particular morning, Ben decided he needed to show Josie her various body parts.

For that he got a fist in the head.

And here's Josie after disposing of the competition.

Halloween!

2009-11-06T14:33:00.002-05:00

Miss Josie Jo as a bee.

And with her Aunt Jen, indistinguishable from a cat

Just some 'old' photos (pre-Halloween)

2009-11-04T23:28:00.002-05:00

In her favorite band's shirt

With her gran-maman's friend, Angela. "See, this is my fist!"

Laughing it up

Now it's time for burping

With her gran-maman, Patricia

For the Grandparents

2009-10-08T20:17:00.000-04:00

Josie's stats:
At birth: 6 lbs 12 oz

At first doctor's appointment:
6 lbs 2 oz
32 cm head
18.75" long

At two weeks (9/22):
7 lbs
34 cm head
19" long

At one month (10/6):
8 lbs 2 oz
20" long

The Town Hall Meetings Have Spoken!

2009-10-02T15:45:00.000-04:00

Everyone's clamorin' for photos! photos! photos!

So here you go.

I have yet to capture her in her Ramones uni (I hate the word "onesie") but she can't run forever.

A Crossover Post - kinda like Buffy & Angel

2009-09-30T15:49:00.000-04:00

Ben and his shadow. It was pretty impressive how quickly he got used to the new parental distraction. Surprisingly faster than he did for Halo 3:ODST.

Day 0. They say it's your birthday.

2009-09-08T14:52:00.000-04:00

She showed up in the evening without much fanfare - to everyone's surprise. We expected a long labor, so did the doctor. Instead, four contractions and boom! there's a crying baby! She did stop breathing for a few moments - yes, this mortal coil can shock the system at times. But she found her voice and the nurses departed.

See those lovely locks? We know all the boys in Dupont are jealous of her faux-hawk. Amniotic fluid makes the best product. And the Foxes do convey great heads of hair.

Karen and Joss about an hour after her arrival. Both were surprisingly spry within a day of Liftoff. Isn't she a tiny bean? We'd completely forgotten how small they are. I mean, she was already small at 6lb 12oz - but what a peanut. With a belly and vocal chords.