Fun Stuff


Julia has been reminding us this week of how funny she is and how much fun a 2 year old can have! And leaving us in stitches the whole time. I'm adding some video of her singing with Steven Curtis Chapman's latest song "Cinderella" Julia and I both love this song. :) And then last night she spent about 10 minutes rolling around inside the pillowcase with the pillow inching across the room and just plain being silly. For more video of both go to Dropshots, well worth checking out I assure you. I must have thought they were cute I'm allowing Julia to show you my cluttered desk top and the family room after a day with Hurricane Julia. Enjoy! :)


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Moosey's back and more..



Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books








Happily tearing paper


what??


Silly Daddy


Her secret stash!












Nope, not the same moose, but Mama's a good internet searcher! ;) Took a chance and went online and found what I thought was at least a close possibility to our lost Moose (no he never turned up, I seriously think she slipped him into the trash that day while she was helping :( ) so I ordered the one I found online and it's the exact same Moose!! YAY!! Julia was so happy to see him in the box that came in the mail, I'm sure she thinks her original one was just on a trip or something. Needless to say she is keeping a very close eye on this Moosey and has yet to put him down for more than a few minutes at a time. She never did really attach to anything else while he was gone either and would oh so sadly ask for him every night, sometimes only once a night (thank goodness) but every night. I'm so grateful and relieved we were able to replace this one. Oh if only everything were that easy.

I'm sure you noticed the tearing paper pictures above, we are not quite sure what to make of this, but Julia will quite happily and contentedly shred any paper she can get her hands on til it's in the tiniest pieces possible. We caught her the other night with this left over wrapping paper, you can see in the last picture she had been at it for awhile, so yes I knew she was tearing paper, but after a bit I guess I tuned out the tearing noise because I knew it wasn't anything important that had fallen into her hands. Should I be worried about this?? It's just such an odd thing to me but fascinates her for some reason.

You may also notice how big our munchkin looks in the latest pics. I'm going to have to find a new nickname for her I guess. We finally noticed the other day while chatting with another friend that Julia had indeed had another growth spurt. Funny how I'm the last one to notice these things, so we measured her that night. 37 and 3/4 of an inch tall! I knew she had grown but wasn't expecting that much at all! We still have to weigh her but I'm sure she's still around 27lbs or so, I'll be very shocked if she's gained much more than that. But then she shocks me daily. She's starting recognizing shapes now too. We haven't worked a whole lot on that, but I guess between what we have done, Noggin, and her puzzles it's sinking in for her. I love this age!

There are a couple of more videos on Dropshots, one from a night at Chuck E Cheese back in January for Bradon's birthday the other is another one from this weekend with her Moose. :)

Happy Chinese New Year


































I wanted to get these pictures yesterday, but Julia was having none of getting dressed up yesterday. Probably a good thing with all the other things we had to do, I wouldn't have gotten nearly as many pictures. This morning however despite the lack of sleep she woke up happy and couldn't wait to get dressed up. So of course I let her. She's a funny little thing and more independent every day.

The bed pictures are her showing off on her new Princess bedding. Grammie Hall wanted to know what it looked like and we finally got it onto her bed. I think she likes it.;) I know it doesn't match her room right now, but with moving so soon, we are NOT painting again. When we get into our new house, we'll paint that room pink or green or something that goes with this set for her. Debra she likes the Princess rug very much as well and as you can see it goes great with her new bedding. Thanks so much.

I'm still brain-fried with a lack of sleep so I'm going to cut this short, and as yet we still haven't seen Moose anywhere...:(

oh Mr. Moose???!!


Well, it's happened the moose that featured so prominently in the pictures below, has come up missing. I've searched the house high and low and for the life of me, can't find where she put him down yesterday. He came up missing yesterday afternoon, so it was a nap without him, which went better than expected, but was a short nap. That worked out because we had errands to run. I thought sure that when we got home one of us would find him. Nope, nada, nothing. Bed time came around, still no moose. A few tears but not dreadful and off to sleep she went. To toss and turn and wake every hour or so and ask for him. Then at 12:30 she woke and has yet to go back to sleep, it's now almost 3:30, we still can't find moose and we have to try to get some more sleep. Why did he have to be the same color brown as the carpet in this house???!!! I'm sure he'll turn up eventually, I'm just not sure how much sleep we'll get in the mean time. Please pray we find him soon or that she attaches to one of her many other toys soon!!

Some random shots

Julia and Bradon

Doing some artwork

using the glue stick

it's not a wonder I don't get much sleep...












Julia recently spent a couple of hours hanging out with her buddy Bradon... always a good choice as far as she is concerned. We really don't have that much going on, we didn't make it to the area Chinese New Year celebration, Mama's back went out, so there was no driving, let alone getting us both ready and out of the house... :( Oh well, hopefully we'll find a good group when we move and can try again next year or maybe even one of the other festivals later this year.

Julia has this thing with shredding paper, she will tear it up into tiny pieces when given a chance. So this week since she had done that with some white tissue paper, we decided to put it to use and I got the glue stick out and some construction paper and we made a "snow" picture. :) She thought it was cool. I really need to be doing more things like this with her, I'm going to make more of an effort in that department.

As for the sleeping picture... yes, she spends at least part of each night in bed with me, and with Daddy gone she's just been camping out there. It's just easier on my back and as she still has nightmares it's easier on her too. As you can see though she has a tendancy to be all over the bed. I never know when I'll wake up with a foot in my face or her head pushed into my shoulder blades, but most of the time lately she's been better. Maybe she's just been sleeping better, I dont' know anymore.

Oh and Nai-Nai that's her Moose-moose, as you can see it's never far from her. She attached to it when Daddy went to school. Makes it so much fun when she drops him on the brown carpet. lol


Right now we are enjoying the Superbowl,("GO PATRIOTS!") Julia really liked Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the half time show, Papa and Uncle Joel would be proud. ;)


Edited to add... yeah we're pretty bummed at the end of the game...:( oh well. you win some, you lose some.