Month 2 Notables

As Josie's second month comes to a close, here are a few high-lights:

Ever since the cord stub fell off, Josie has been loving bath time. This is about the only time you'll see her hair lay down, though we did try out a different style for her.
Sully is developing more of a liking for Josie. He is becoming pretty protective of her and gets very concerned when she cries. I guess this makes sense. They both love to eat, they both love to sleep, they both love to lick their hand...really they have a ton in common. Here they are kickin' it fireside.One of Josie's historically least favorite activities is tummy time. But just in the last couple of days she's become pretty keen on it. This photo also illustrates her widening power alleys, or I should say "alley" singular, as she is really only losing hair on her left side. Still plenty up top, though.

Return to the Lake

Late in August, we took Josie on her first road trip to Nat's folks' house in Amarillo. Since it seems like lakin' is a top priority for the Carters, we figured we need to get Josie acclimated as soon as possible. It was also a good in between point of Colorado and Oklahoma, so Natalie's grandmother Doris, and aunt Rosie made the trip out to meet Josie. As usual, the lake house did not disappoint and we had a great week there.

"Whoa, hey there. Let's keep the hands where I can see them."

"Look at my Baby Bjorn! Lars, let's go down to the fjord and eat chocolate and play badminton."

Tall Like Her Parents

I thought this was worth documenting. Since for a little while Josie was the newest baby out of the people we know, she always seemed like such a pip-squeak compared to other babies. That is until Natalie's long time friend Lindsay had her second child, Maeve. Despite the fact that Maeve is only a few days old in these pictures, you can tell she is awed by Josie's domineering size. That is not some kind of camera trick or optical illusion people, Josie is actually that huge. Of course the faux hawk does add about another inch to her overall appearance.

Visitors

August was the first chance that any of my family had to come out and meet Josie. Unfortunately, that was also the time that Josie decided she would start sleeping less. What my beloved daughter didn't take into consideration was that the less she sleeps, the crankier she gets. The crankier she gets, the less she is able to go to sleep. It is a vicious cycle.

Still Josie was glad to meet her grandparents on my side. My mom spent a weekend with us and spent some QT with the newest Jones. What you can't see in the picture below is I'm off camera getting ready to throw a cheese puff into Josie's mouth who has obliged me with an inviting target.
My dad and his wife, Sandi, also came out to meet Josie. My dad admitted he had little experience with tiny babies (I was raised by circus performers for the first two years of life), but he did pretty good handling Josie.
I think both grandparents, after a weekend in the house with a newborn, realized that the best part of being a grandparent was the ability to eventually go back to their own home. But we had a good time when they were here.

Slack Dad

It appears I have fallen behind in my blogging. My apologies to those FOJs (fans of Josie) out there who want updates on how the girl is doing. I can only offer up the excuse that as babies get older, they need more constant attention. I don't know why I was kept in the dark about that until I had to learn the hard way. But on to a bevy of posts.

First off, our neighbor offered to take some portraits of Josie soon after we got her home. Brandi is an aspiring photographer trying to build her book, and we definitely made out like bandits on her generosity as the photos turned out great. Our apologies to Brandi for Josie urinating on her nice baby blanket...but it least it wasn't number two. You may have seen some of these on Facebook, but we actually couldn't view these for the longest time due to my computer running off of an old operating system. Tiger, that was so 2007! Oh, ho, ho! Now that we've bumped up to Snow Leopard, we are now able to share.







I remember those days when Josie used to sleep all the time. Ahhhh, those were the days.