JoJo in one of Grandpa Dale's rocking chairs! It's been a month! A lot has happened, and JoJo is starting to show some real personality.
Highlights:
- School has started again for Daddy, and with Mommy's new job in Portland, JoJo has been going to Jeanie's house 5 days a week. On Friday afternoons, she gets picked up by grandma and spends the afternoon and evening with her. Daddy picks her up after work.
- JoJo continues to turn her head sideways with the "aren't I cute?" look. She does it more often after she eats something.
- JoJo has a new car seat, which faces forward. I love turning down the rear view mirror to see her and talk to her. I also cannot eat in the car without her noticing. I tried with a candy bar, and she caught me - she complained until she got a piece, then, of course, turned her said sideways, as if to say, "I'm cute enough to get what I want."
- JoJo loves disorganizing things. She will walk up to the TV and remove all of the videos and leave them in a pile. Then she'll go to work on my wallet. Bookshelves, the dish washer, laundry baskets, puzzles, nothing is safe.
- Luckily, she has also started re-organizing things: She took all of the percussion instruments out of the "family band" box, then put them (and everything around them) back in. It's cute to see. She is trying to put pieces back into her puzzles, but she hasn't quite caught on about the shapes yet.
- JoJo really loves her board books. Although she'll sit still for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, she usually plays with There Was An Old Lady because it has holes on each page. For reading, she seems to favor Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. She brought it to me and sat still for an entire reading. Then she brought the book over to Sheryl and read it with her. Then she brought it back to me. Pretty soon it was back and forth, line by line, daddy reads one, then a short walk to mommy and she reads one, then back to daddy. It went on for about 5 minutes, until we went to get the camera, which of course stopped everything. She knows what the camera is, so she stopped and posed.
