Christmas fairy

I'm having technical difficulties uploading my Christmas videos. Here's a little post Christmas one to tide you over:

Christmas photo shoot

We had pictures of Julia taken by Constanza Revelo of Happy Caterpillar Photography, one of my CT-moms group members. I love that group. I get so much great info & leads from them. :)

Enjoy!

Julia Christmas session 2011

Not the evil man, Mommy!

Julia met Santa today. He took it slightly better than she did.

My New Best Friend

On Saturday evening, we went to the balloon inflation event in prep for the Stamford Thanksgiving Parade. Julia got a Dora balloon to take home. She had a personal conversation with her the whole way home. You can see her enthusiasm for her new found friend in this video. Enjoy:



Also, a shout out to our dear friend Diane, who volunteered with GE Capital Services to handle Popeye. [I know there's a dirty joke in there somewhere, but this is a family blog ;)]

Happy Halloween

Pumpkin patch video

Hope this works. Enjoy!

Pumpkin patch

We took advantage of the wonderful weather on Sunday & took a trip back to Blue Jay Orchards in Bethel, CT. It's a nice 1 hr trip away from us. We got there early enough to not have to worry about parking or long lines. We started with a wagon ride through the orchard, hot dogs for lunch & then a romp through the pumpkin patch. We all had a great time, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifespecially, Julia.

Pumpkin patch 2011

Bye-Bye Nonna & Grampa

Nonna & Grampa flew back to London today. Julia had some special time with Nonna on Sunday before they left. I'm using a new app with my iphone video. I can't figure out how to embed the video. You'll need to go here to view it.

More Young Birthdays

If you're reading this, then you must know by now that the Young household celebrates all it's birthdays (with the exception of Chris' - he's always got to be different!) in the month of August. Uncle Bart's is actually on July 31, but that's close enough. Anyway, Carol & Alec finish off this marathon of summer birthdays on Aug 22 & 26, respectively. We celebrated Carol's at Del Posto & Alec's at Mr. Chow, with cocktails at Chris' lovely rooftop garden in Soho.

Carol and Alec birthdays 2011

Having fun

Julia & I went down to the courtyard last Thursday, just before Hurricane Irene visited us. It was only after a few moments that I realized she was doing circuits. So I filmed one. Enjoy!

Julia's birthday

Although it poured almost non-stop all day, we still had great fun celebrating the end to Julia's second year:

Julia's 2nd birthday

More photos & videos from Deb Mitcho can be found here

July vacations & celebrations

July was a busy month for us! Really busy! ;)

Alec & I had a wonderful San Francisco vacation, including a really nice visit with Uncle Rob & Deb:

San Francisco 2011

And while we were enjoying the micro climates of the San Francisco Bay Area, Julia was having a little vacation of her own with Nonna & Grampa:

Julia's July vacation 2011

Finally, we rang out the month of July with Uncle Bart's 80th birthday celebration. Family members came from as far as Colorado, Virginia, & Massachusetts:

Bart's 80th birthday party

Yankees Fan

Day Out with Thomas

We had a great time at the Day Out with Thomas event in Essex, CT on Sunday. Here are a few photos:

Day Out with Thomas

On the putting green

There was a live band outside the Colony House at Mountain Lake tonight. Julia decided to enjoy the music from the putting green. The photographer at the event, Rita, (who's been baby sitting Julia while we've been visiting here) took some really fantastic photos of her:

Julia Mountain Lake 2011

Wonderful weekend

We had a really nice weekend. Our last together as a family for the next few weeks. :(

Saturday's big event was an Easter Egg Hunt at Waveny Park in New Canaan, CT:

New Canaan Easter Egg Hunt 2011

And Sunday was spent at our favorite park in Greenwich - Bruce Park:

Bruce Park April 2011

Dancing Queen

One of Julia's favorite past times is dancing.....

Trying to catch up

I'm ashamed to have to admit that I've not posted anything since mid-November!! I'm going to do a mass posting of all the videos we've taken in the last 4 months in chronological order:

Pre Christmas:






Christmas Eve & my new pal Violet:


Christmas Day:


2011:
January:


February:
For reference, in this one... Julia says "baby" and "thank you" a lot. Baby is the flip camera - she calls it that because she sees images of a baby (herself) on it a lot. Thank you is her way of saying "give that to me". She also says it when she wants to hand something to you:




March:

Thank you, amazon.com for the hours of fun: