A few months ago, Julia made one of her sadly infrequent visits to story time at the library. She picked a good day to go, however, because the nice story time lady brought favors for the children: small tomato plants and corn seeds, which the kids planted in paper cups.

Being parents in possession of large, open spaces in our yard that desperately needed filling, we waited for the corn to sprout and then dutifully transplanted the seedlings into a flower box behind our bedroom. Then, learning that we couldn’t expect the corn to actually produce corn without other plants to facilitate proper pollination, we bought several more stalks and planted them, too.

The rest is history. Or, as Julia says, “My corn is getting bigger and bigger and bigger!”

Well, we’re still way behind in going through pictures—we’ve taken something like 800 between last Thanksgiving and today—but here’s a short video that illustrates what it’s like to be Joseph Richard Wong in a harsh and unforgiving world.

The video is titled The Brief Adventures of Baby Joe, but rest assured that Julia makes her presence felt as well. She is a force to be reckoned with, even when she’s just a disembodied voice offscreen.

It’s a pretty big download, but we think most everyone reading this nowadays has DSL or some other kind of broadband connection. As usual, you’ll need QuickTime 7 to play the clip.

To go with the Halloween pictures, here’s a video clip illustrating Julia’s special brand of TLC for her brother. Needless to say, we’re not going to ask her to babysit anytime soon.

And here are the pictures themselves, in which Julia and Joseph get along swimmingly, for the most part.