My Smart, Funny Baby Girl

Jocelyn is totally the funniest person I know. And she is just getting so flippin’ smart, I can’t stand it. Here are a few things she has done recently. I want to get them down before I forget….

This morning – she often falls back to sleep at her morning nurse, so I put her back into her crib. When I got back to the bedroom Mike was already in the shower. So instead of getting ready for work in some other fashion (making breakfast, picking out clothes, etc.), I climbed back into bed. Well, Mike got out of the shower, I didn’t move and then less than 10 minutes later little miss ‘just a few more minutes’ was up and at ‘em. Mike went to get the happy baby from her crib. She wandered into my bedroom, and placed next to me in bed a book that she likes me to read to her. She then grabbed my glasses off of my nightstand and handed them to me. She has figured out that I can’t read to her without my glasses on. Smarty pants. What makes this story even funnier is that she often steals the glasses off of my face. So for her to bring them to me is extra cute.

On Sunday my mother in law was drinking a bottle of water. Jocelyn took the water from her and put it into her toy box. So we asked Jocelyn to get that water back for her. We said, “Jocelyn, go get Grandma’s water. Do you know where Grandma’s water is?” What did she do? Well, she didn’t go into the toy box. Instead, she wandered into the kitchen and pointed to the counter, where Grandma’s empty beer bottle was sitting. Yup, mommy’s water is a big mug of water. Grandma’s is a beer bottle. Too funny!

She is really into reading lately, which is awesome. She now has the patience to sit through an entire book, most of the time. Her favorite story appears to be “Goodnight Moon”, which she wants to read any time but bed time. But she also enjoys “Hippos Go Berserk.” And then she has several books that just have objects in them, which she has taken to quite well. She points at objects and says, “ducko,” which is her catch-all word. So we respond by telling her what the word is. It’s very cute.

In just a general update, we finally had her birthday pictures done this weekend (only two weeks late, not too bad). We had some formals done, in which she wore a beautiful dress and sat at a table with a fake cake on it and had a ‘party’ with a teddy bear. It was very cute. And then we did cake-smasher pictures, in which we stripped her down to her diaper cover, sat her down with a cake, and let her go to town. We had a greasy, pink baby after the end of about 15 minutes. She ate quite a bit of icing, and of course wore way more than she was able to eat. It was way too cute!