Josie's first day of "school"

Here's a kind of grainy shot of Josie before she heads off to her first (half) day of daycare at the U of M Children's Center. Jack dropped her off and reported that she was the only child in her section not throwing a fit. When we arrived to pick her up she kept repeating, "But I don't wanna leeeeave!"











We eventually got her to leave...here's a picture of her hanging out and happy on the back porch with Daddy.

A Lunchtime Story

Josie's favorite activity lately is to listen to stories, which means one of us starts telling a story and then she takes over and narrates the rest. Here's an example. I don't know where she got the character "Muck" from, or what that means, exactly.

Josie and her train

Some pix of Josie playing with her train set this morning. She had a nice sunny spot on the living room floor.

















She preferred to roll the train on the rug rather than on the track.

Best of all (for mommy) she happily picked up all of the pieces and put them back in the toy bucket when she was done.

Josie's new table

We set up a small table just for Josie. It was among some of the many items we picked up at Ikea last week, including her big girl bed (pix of that to come)! I put the table together after Josie went to bed and when she woke up the next morning and saw it she said, "My table!" and then, "I got it from Ikea" with a satisfied nod.

Back in Ann Arbor

Jack brought Josie over to campus the other day. While they were waiting for me, he took a few shots in this alley off of South University.











This is another one for possible future-album-cover shots.

Some pix from the back porch

Josie has a new red chair that she likes to hang out in.












"Hello, Persian? This is Tabby. I'm just calling to say hi." (Josie often insists that she's Tabby and wants one of us to be Persian--she has a book that has some different kinds of cats in it).














I like summer in Ann Arbor.













Hanging out on the porch with Mommy is fun.

Josie in Gardiner, NY

One nice thing about driving versus flying is that we were able to stop on our way back from NH to visit Jack's sister and family in Gardiner, NY. This is a picture of Josie in the Gardiner public library where they have a very large stuffed sheep dog which she took a liking to.













The library is just down this rail trail from Jack's sister's house.
















We were able to attend cousin Solana's last day of farm camp where they held a little farmers' market party. There were hats.











Solana won this hat.













Later, we hung out in Solana's room and she took out lots of her costume/dress-up stuff and put it on Uncle Jack. This was literally hours (or at least an hour) of fun.















Unfortunately, the tiara had fallen off by now and the sunglasses were gone, too. But Jack still got paid with Solana's play cash register money.















Josie really liked this toy bear of Solana's. It was running low on batteries, so its ears didn't wiggle up and down too much, but it still played "I Want Candy" pretty loudly and lit up.















Josie really liked Gardiner and hanging out with cousin Solana and Aunt Kathy and Uncle Dante!