Half Way There

We are offically 1/2 way through Den's trip. He gets home super late on Thurs.--or if he wants to earn us some discounted travel, takes a bump and gets home on Friday.

I should be in bed, but am winding down from a meeting tonight and sitting up with Josie, hoping against hope that she will sleep through the night tonight.

I am forever trying to catch her in her 'tripond - plus' pose. The one in which she is basically standing, or all but standing, as she leans on something. It just blows my mind. When I whiped out the camera this afternoon, I got the usual, 'no pictures of Eddie' and I assured him I was taking photos of his sister--then snapped this one (she is just below the house) (A house I had wanted to buy for Eddie just as he got old enough at 18 months to be too old for this, but it's a great garden. Now I wish I'd bought it, as I don't know how much use Josie will give it as she hates her playpen and going into this little house/garden--I think she feels trapped. I'm about to advise Eddie to take his toys and go into the playpen if he wants to escape his sister, as she'll never go in).

Then he tells me he wants his photo taken with the dog--in the stroller. And still more shocking, he wants his photo taken with his sister. Then he wants to knock his sister over, just as she has a cute look on her face and they are both looking. Yay. I hated seeing her head lurch forward and snap back after the force of his shove, so he got a time out after his second shove. He is mostly pretty good with her, but I don't usually like to leave him with her these days because he is obsessed with her staying away from toys--pretty much any toy. So this photo of the 2 of them is rare indeed.

Enjoy the pictures. I need to wash some dishes.