An empty fountain drink container makes a great companion
Entertained for 20 minutes (20 minutes in standard time is equivalent to 3 hours for parents.)In spite of JP and Annie's ineptitude, there are probably thousands of photos from our three day trip. It's good to have a photographer for a friend.
Lately Josie has been prone to stranger danger at friends' houses, but she immediately took to Luke and Meghan like they were old college buddies. Something like that. At first she mistook their cats, Archie and Edith, for her cats, Duckie and Reno. Although she never quite figured Edith out, Archie became her favorite word of the trip. Every morning Josie woke up and followed (harassed?) Archie repeating his name as if it were the most fun word to say.
So what was her second favorite word of the trip? Bonk. Josie had several collisions with the dining room table, most of them minor, but one of which resulted in a bad ass bruise on her cheek. Meghan instituted the "bonk" sound effect when the collisions occurred in a genius move with two results. First, colliding with the table was no longer traumatic. Second, the bonk became a display of affection. A week later, Josie bonks her parents and beloved toys while saying "bonk!" Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Dr. Meghan Dougherty: Communications Professor, Thanksgiving Cook Extraordinaire, Baby Whisperer.
More pictures of Joh(a)ns(e/o)n Chicago Thanksgiving 2.0 canbe found here.
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