It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas...

The air is cold, the tree is up (and has been since after Thanksgiving), and the lights are finally up outside, AND it even snowed yesterday! It is definitely beginning to look a lot like christmas!

November Recap

I thought it would be easiest to put the pics I took from November in one blog...

Thanksgiving Feast at Julia's school- November 24, 2009
At Julia's preschool, they had a schoolwide Thanksgiving feast the week of Thanksgiving. Both of Julia's grandmothers (Nannie and Nan) were there to share in the feast. Julia seemed a little overwhelmed by it all (she had a cold and was coming down with Croup but we didn't know that until Wednesday), but I still managed to get some cute pics.

Ladybug Costume
Around Halloween, in Julia's class, they had a bog dress-up box full of different costumes. Julia quickly found a ladybug costume and put it on frequently at school. Right now, Julia is really into ladybugs and butterflys. One afternoon, early on in November, I managed to get a couple cute pics of her in the costume.

Nannie's Birthday- November 28,2009
For my mom's birthday, I thought it would be neat if Julia decorated a homemade card for her. You can't get much better than a homemade free birthday card. Julia worked on the card for about ten minutes, coloring over the butterfly and ladybug I drew and also coloring over the words I had written. She did a great job!

Working hard on Nannie's card

Making the crayons "dance"

I love my crayons!

Let It Snow!

I cannot believe it snowed earlier today! I was giving Julia lunch and Andrew looked out the window and exclaimed that it was snowing! We bundled Julia up and took her outside to introduce her to snow. It was fun to watch her see the snow fall and even catch a flake or two on her hands/mittens. I couldn't pass up the chance to get some pictures and video of our little snow angel! Maybe next time it snows, there will be some accumulation on the ground...I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

And to finish this post off, I have a video of Julia's first interaction with snow!

New Potty

A couple of weeks ago, right around Halloween, Julia occasionally started telling us when she had pooped or peed in her diaper. I figured since she was starting to be aware of when she dirtied her diaper, it might be time to casually introduce her to the potty. A couple of times she has walked up to the big potty and pointed to it saying, "Poo poo." So, my mom and I went out in search of a simple and inexpensive little potty. We found one and I put some stickers on it that are up in her room.

I put the potty downstairs in our guest bathroom, since we spend so much time downstairs during the day. When Julia first saw her potty, she loved the stickers and immediately wanted to sit on it.

She likes to "open" and "close" (as Julia calls it) the lid and sit down on the potty (fully clothed) and look at a book. We even put some books in a basket next to the potty.

I definitely don't want to force anything on her, but am more than willing to help her explore her curiosity of the potty. Who knows, maybe someday soon she'll want to take her diaper off and sit on the potty. Maybe it's time for some potty books... I foresee "Everbody Poops" in our future.

Playing Around

Julia and I were playing this morning and she wanted to dress up, so of course, I had to get some pictures!

Money, money!

Julia loves my purse. She enjoys taking things out of my purse. Her favorites are my wallet and keys. Recently, I 'caught' her in the act!

Of course, she goes straight for the wallet! Watch out world...

Julia's New Hairstyles

The past couple of weeks, Julia hs gotten a lot better about allowing me to do things with her hair. I never thought, when I was pregnant, that I would have a child who couldn't tolerate her hair to be 'styled' because of her sensory defensiveness. I started with some little barrettes and have since moved on to piggy tails. Now that her hair is getting even longer, it's fun to be able to do things with it. There are still a couple of things I'd like to try to do with Julia's hair, but for now...

I'm ready to go for a walk mommy.

Mom, no more pictures (I love this expression)!

Peek-a-boo

I accidentally did this next one as a video with my camera, but wanted to include it because it shows a cute picture of Julia's hair up with barrettes.

Pumkin Pictures

This year we never got around to a pumpkin patch to get pictures of Julia, so Andrew took some pics of Julia in our own little 'pumpkin patch.' She loves her pumpkins!