Josie is 5

 

Five years ago on a stormy, snowy, ice cold night my water broke all on it's own. An hour or so later Josie zoomed into this life. She is such a blessing to our family. Josie is cute, sweet, a snuggle-bug, shy, spicy, and has an infectious joy of life. I lost the stats for her 4th birthday due to a very stressful move and distance-parenting situation as we faced a move to Idaho. Josie is working hard on preschool skills like cutting paper, glueing, drawing, reading books with mom, and lots of imaginative play with Evelyn and Oliver. She loves to be home in her pajamas. Josie is learning her alphabet but has a hard time remembering which letter is what. She does know "J" and "O" since she can spell her name with the first J backwards and the second J correctly. Her alphabet song has us all in stitches, "ABCDERKHWDJZXW." She recently started spending time at the piano making up songs and tunes. Josie is improving her gross motor skills through gymnastics, swimming lessons, and riding bikes. Josie often talks like a baby, which drives me crazy. LOL. Nothing is better than when Josie crawls into your lap for a cozy snuggle. 

On February 1st she weighed 36.6 lbs (28.6 percentile) and measured 41.75 inches (37.3 percentile). Yes, she is skinny and nearly regular height. She is wearing size 5 clothes and size 9 shoes.  Her favorite show at the moment is "Izzy's Koala World." If she could own a baby koala she would sign up first in line. Her greatest ambition in life is to be a koala and snuggle. She wants to be koala trainer when she grows up. Her favorite books are Creepy Carrots and Creepy Underwear. Her favorite toys are of the soft, stuffy variety. Josie still refuses to eat fruits, vegetable, anything with flavor (according to Evelyn), and say the prayers. She's only said like 5 prayers in her entire life. It's a mystery why saying a prayers is so terrifying since no lettuce is involved.