Nana love

Kisses for Nana.













Reading "Time for Sleep, Sheep the Sheep" with Nana.












More Nana love.

Odiorne Point

We made it over to Odiorne Point State Park during our trip. Josie liked wading in the water with her Daddy.
















Look! More rocks and shells!

















This rock is a good spot fer sittin' n' thinkin'.

Some pix with the Ross cousins

We were pretty lax on taking group pictures on our trip out East...we don't have many pix of all of the cousins together, but even without the photo documentation, we can report that they all had a great time hanging out together.

Josie and Katherine (one month younger than Josie) hang out in the kiddie pool after their trip to York Beach.











These hula-hoops still say "Celia" and "Bobby" in black marker to distinguish whose is whose.












On Nana's next-door neighbors' swing set with Cassandra and Katherine.












This pic is kind of washed out, but it's a nice one of the cousins running around together.












"Night-night babies." Cassandra pretends to put Josie and Katherine to sleep on Nana's floor. They were both pretty willing to play along...it had been a long day.










Cousin Isabella loves to squeeze Josie.

Fish and release Josie

Look what Daddy caught off of the docks in Prescott Park. Hmm...she's too small...better throw her back in.
















Just kidding, folks...I'm fine.

The magic of Etch-A-Sketch

We got mini Etch-A-Sketch pads for the four cousins and the three youngest were immediately busily concentrating on their drawings.











What? Can't talk now...Etch-A-Sketching.













Back to Etch-A-Sketching and now Cassandra joins in, too.

Josie at the beach

Here are some shots of Josie from our recent jaunt to the East Coast. We managed to get to York Beach in Maine and to Hampton Beach, too.

It's important to stretch before undertaking any beach activity. Plus, don't you like my bathing suit?

Hey...nice to see you at the beach. Glad you could make it.


Whee! I like Hampton Beach.


Watching the waves come in.


Beach baby.

All work and no play...

OK, maybe this makes me a bad mommy, but this picture of Josie*:















immediately made me think of this iconic image of Jack Nicholson from The Shining:




















Jack pointed out that both of the above shots picture someone going kind of crazy at a lodge (Nicholson at the fictional Overlook Hotel and Josie during our stay at the Minnewaska Lodge in Gardiner, NY)

Just for kicks, here are some other Josie/celebrity look-alike shots from the past:













From Josie's male-pattern baldness days: http://celiajackbaby.blogspot.com/2008/06/josie-simpson-presents.html














From Josie's first Halloween: http://celiajackbaby.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-halloween.html












From Josie's days spent avoiding paparazzi on Division Ave. in Chicago:
http://celiajackbaby.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-really-knocked-me-out-was-her.html

*Yes, we know that we have been slacking on the posting-pix-to-the-Josie-blog front. No posts at all from July! Shameful. We will try to remedy this and have some pix from the recent trip out to NH in the works.