Mama Walking Shoes

Joe has taken a shine to what he has dubbed "Mama walking shoes." He had them on for a while last night, and wanted to sit up in the red chair with Julie and Miss Butterfly-On-My-Butt while he had them on. Sort of awkward as he clambered up in the chair, but we got it figured out in the end.

Match!

Joe is all about matching right now. At bedtime, he likes to dump out his dinosaur magnets and match them to the legend on the side of their box, or to dinosaurs in his giant fold-out dinosaur book. His favorites include the Iguanadon--IG-AN-A-DON!!!!!--and the Tyranosaurus Rex. Is it any wonder given that both of these dinosaurs are on a giant fold-out flap? Of course not. Julie's favorite is when Joe decides to scoop up the Triceratops magnet and make a match with the Triceratops on the cover of the book, because sometimes when he does, he will charmingly add, "One-two-three! Tri-Cer-Tops!" Usually though, Joe will simply note "Match!" The other popular match "game" is to find all three of our books in which grasshoppers (grass-HOPPER!; emphasis on the second syllable) appear and match those up.

Sunday morning, we played with our matching cards. Julie noticed Joe matched up all the straight up colors and the object that is that color first (yellow and banana); textures and textured objects (e.g fluffy and bunny in immediate foreground) were saved to be matched last. But look at all the matches we made! Joe lined them all up like that once they'd been made.

Fashions From the Island

More from the runway. Joe is finally big enough for his Long Island sweatshirt the Marcouxs gave him just before he turned one, and Sunday morning was chilly a la Southold summer nights so we were finally able to break it out.

Classic Joe

One of Joe's signature poses is to rest all too-cool-for-school style with his hands behind his head. It's usually a sign that he's tired or winding down and taking it all in (this picture was taken before his nap Sunday).

He is sporting the shirt that Ted got for him at the same time he got the Big Bird fashions. It prompts Julie and Ted to sing the ditty the alphabet magnet toy does: "J says JUH! J says JUH! Every letter makes a sound. J says JUH!" (Some letters have a bonus sound, in which case there's the "and sometimes [insert sound]," add-on.)

Birds Got Some New Feathers

The day we left the hospital, Ted arrived after picking up lunch with some gifts as well: a Big Bird onesie for the Baby Bird and a Big Bird shirt for the Big Bird (Readers, do you rally need to ask who this is in the Ekkers household? ;) ). So great! Here are the Bird Girls sporting their new threads. (Baby Bird is also sporting her fierce hawk eyes.)