~ Julia's World ~

Monday, January 10, 2011

October In Review

October was filled with lots of dressing up and changes!

Big Girl Bed- Mid-October we decided to transition Julia to a big girl bed. She was getting so long, she didn't fit comfortably in her crib anymore. Even though she was getting to long for her crib, we wanted to slowly transition her into a big girl bed.

Testing out her big girl mattress... I think she likes it!

Her big girl bed!

Big girl bookshelf from her Aunt Shelby

Dressing Up! - With Halloween aroung the corner, there was a lot of dress-up opportunities. Julia LOVES to dress-up, so she was in heaven!

Chilling in the car with Nannie and Mommy, drinking some Starbucks milk

Sunglasses make every meal taste better!

Beauty Shop day at school! They were talking about the Letter B at school that week

Circus Day! This week they were talking about the Letter C. Julia was a cat and loved having her face painted!

Halloween at School- Dressing up at school and going trick-or-treating to all the classrooms was so much fun. Julia loved seeing all her friends dressed up and getting to trick-or-treat at school.

I'm a butterfly... not a fairy princess!

Trick-or-treating at school

Cheese!

Day 2 of Halloween at school- I'm a lion, ROAR!!

Mommy and I are both kitties!!

Halloween Night 2010

Carving a pumkin with my cousin, Ryan

Wait, you mean we have to walk to each house to get candy??!

Walking with Daddy to another house

All tuckered out after an evening of fun... Happy Halloween!

And to end this post, a cute video of Julia trick-or-treating. She had a blast! For weeks after, she walked around knocking on doors saying, "Trick-or-treat!!"

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Trip to the "Libary"

Julia loves the library! We have taken her a couple of time to look at books, but haven't checked any books out for her until this week. Knowing how much she loves books, she will have a great love of the library, like her daddy! This trip we decided to check out a couple books for her, which she loved! It was cute to see her walk around saying , "Shhh..." Each night we read her "new library books." It will be interesting when we have to take the books back to the library... I'm already trying to prepare her for that one talking about how we can take the library books back and get new ones to check out... we'll see how it goes!

Enjoying a book with daddy in the kids' section

Looking at her new library books (I love the look on her face)! She loved how they had little chairs to sit in.

Julia's first books we checked out at the library

Friday, January 7, 2011

Jumpy Gym Fun

Julia and I met up with her Aunt Erin and cousins Nolan and Tatum at a Jumpy Gym by their house one afternoon over Christmas Break. This was Julia's first time at a jumpy place, so I was curious how she would react. At first, she was a little timid and preferred to play with a little jungle gym off to the side, but eventually she warmed up more and attempted a larger jumpy thing. Once she saw it wasn't so bad, she went on it three or four times and didn't want to leave.

Weeeeeee! Baby steps...

Next, I tried to get Julia to go on one of the big inflatable slides with me. We watched Aunt Erin go up with Tate and slide down. Julia wanted me to carry her up these tiny and steep inflatable steps (very tricky to do in socked feet). She had fun, but didn't want to try it again.

Fun in the bouncy house with my cousins.... I liked to lay down while they bounced around best! I think I might be almost ready for the big one...

The Ultimate in bouncy house/inflatable slide- I don't know about this one!?

Eventually Julia got the courage to go up in this one, which was a huge deal for her! I was so proud of her when she finally climbed up the back part leading to the inflatable slide and then slid down.

Maneuvering through the obstacles...

Climbing up the little hill to get to the slide...

Almost there....

Hi mommy! I think I'm ready...

Woo hoo!!

Hey that wasn't so bad... again, again!!

I foresee many more trips to the jumpy place in our future...

Friday, December 31, 2010

Happy New Year!

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Jingle Bells!

One of Julia's favorite songs this Christmas season is "Jingle Bells." She has been walking around the house singing it, so of course, I had to get it on video...

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas 2010

This Christmas season was particularly fun because Julia was older and was able to enjoy and participate more in the Christmas traditions. She especially enjoyed opening presents and looking at all the Christmas lights.

The season started out with decorating both the inside and outside of our house. Julia really loved looking at the Christmas tree and all the outside lights. I did the inside myself, but couldn't avoid having my "little helper" help Andrew and I with the outside...

Next on the list was a visit with Santa. This year we decided to avoid the mall Santa and went to our church's Breakfast with Santa. Julia told Santa she wanted a bike (which she already had) and a dollhouse for Christmas. She loved Santa's whiskers and hat, but chose to sit on Mrs. Claus' lap for the picture (after some enticing with a candy cane).

Finally, it was time for Christmas. Gifts had been bought and wrapped, the tree was trimmed, cookies were baked, we visited with Santa, and the food was prepared... Merry Christmas!