California, California...Here we come!

In the interest of clearing out my camera to make room for vacation photos (see below), here are some good ones from this week showing a few of Josephine's new faves. (And yes, I should be working right now instead of doing the blog. But I couldn't deny you your daily dose of Josie-inspired joy.)


This is our busy little bee playing with all her favorite toys. It's hysterical to me that she has clear preferences. And, like a good little girl, she really prefers cloth and wood to plastic.

In addition to chewing on her toys, she also can't get enough of chewing on those toes - probably because she's seen her mama do it so many times. I just can't resist kissing those feet.

Here is Josie on her new favorite thing in the whole world. It's an awesome JellyCat Cow that showed up in our elevator on my birthday from our friends Chris & Nicki. She absolutely cannot get enough of this thing. I can't blame her - it's the softest, cutest, floppiest little creature you've ever seen.
And, Venus continues to be one of her favorite things in the world. Josie rarely takes her eyes off of the cat if she's anywhere near her and if Venus is in reaching distance, this happens:
That first one is so funny, because they're totally staring into each other's eyes. This next one is more typical. Note: if Lou or I did this to Venus, we would need reconstructive surgery and months of physical therapy. Venus really is unbelievably patient with the baby.
Oh - did I mention that we found Venus all curled up in the corner of Josie's crib last night? She used to do this before Josie started sleeping in there, but apparently has decided recently to start it up again. The funny thing is that she used to jump out of there as soon as we caught her, but last night she just looked up at us and went back to sleep. She must figure that sleeping in the crib is the only fair trade-off for putting up with numerous ear-pulls and tail-tugs.

In other news...

Louie & I are leaving tomorrow afternoon for a much-needed trip to California! (I can just feel the sunshine on my shoulders already.) Louie has a legal conference in Beverly Hills (ooh, la la) so I get to tag along for just the price of airfare. The conference is only until Saturday, so we will have Saturday evening through Monday just to hang out in Cali. On Sunday we're headed up to Santa Barbara to see our friend Flake and to drive up the coast and introduce Josie to the ocean! Other plans include Josie's first dip in a swimming pool (we even bought her a swimsuit & those wacky swimmy diapers) and an afternoon at the Getty Museum. And, we're staying right on Rodeo Drive, so there will also be some shopping (thank goodness I'm back to work).

Oh goodness, gotta run - Josie is very clearly making a big mess in her diaper. (I sure do miss the days of breastmilk-only diapers, these food poopies are quite a different animal.) Wish me luck.