2.5 year old speech

Josie is very verbal and has a constant stream of words coming out of her mouth. To me, it is very intelligible but it may require some translation if you don't speak toddler.

Her inability to pronounce all consonants leads to a few very endearing toddler versions of a few words. She has particular difficulty with the letter 's' followed by another consonant, as in spider, special, smoke, sparkly. We hear a lot of fffider, ffecial, holy ffokes! And many requests for ffffarkly water. Also cute is opameal instead of oatmeal.

She is very imaginative and has a huge cast of characters in her little brain. She will often demand to be called by one of these many names, and play their role very thoroughly (including pretending to pee on bushes when she is a dog and fuss when she is a baby and drink from a bowl or eat crumbs from the floor when she is a cat). Aliases: Peter pan, baby Jesus, Dakota, Lucifer, baby Ruby, Duchess, baby ocelot, Mufasa (mama did you know I got DEAD! Simba is sad!) and many more.

She will sit in the tub or the car or anywhere really and just talk to herself, read to herself and tell stories. One night we overheard her p retending to read her "kindle": Baby Jesus is born. God is great, God is good, and we thanks him for baby Jesus' food. Amen.

Snow 2012

Well, we have had a busy month since I last posted. We have been house hunting like crazy, finally found one we really like and are moving towards a purchase. I got a job at Doernbecher and a volunteer job teaching parenting classes at Pregnancy Resource. Josie has been busy busy busy and really enjoying the presence of grandma, grandpa and all the family in town.
For a few fun photos, we have today's soggy snow play session in the yard at the Yosts.