Spring Gardening

Julia was recently introduced the concept of gardening.

Here she is with our master garden planner, Uncle Bob

 

She quickly showed prowess with a spade.

Having fun with Gramps

Look at what we did!

All done!  Let's go eat!

Busy Week!

Julia got an international postcard this week from Nonna & Grandpa in London. We're expecting to talk to Nonna & Grandpa later today & are very excited about that!




She's been super busy working on pulling herself up, so we got her a new toy to help her with that. You can see how excited she is - watch closely & at one point you can hear her make a breathless sound, which is what she does when she's most excited:



We're going to need to lower the crib mattress this week. I'm going to try to do that later today after she wakes from her early afternoon nap.

Finally, she had her 9 month checkup on Wednesday & passed, with flying colors - as we all knew she would. I was concerned that maybe I was feeding her too much solid food, but Doc said it's OK. She's an eating machine & I hope that her willingness to eat a large variety of foods sticks with her. She got a follow up vaccine shot for HepB & a blood test - which required a prick to her little finger. She took the shot & the prick in excellent fashion. However the blood collection was a bit tough as they had to squeeze her poor wee finger to get enough of a sample into the collection tube. It probably only went on for about a minute, but it seemed to take forever. :(

Here are her stats from her visit:

Weight: 20 lbs, 5 oz (75%ile)
Length: 28.25 inches (75%ile)
Head Circumference: 44 cm (50%ile) - they obviously don't measure cheek chubbiness or she'd break the scale!

Basically, what this tells us is that she's gotten a little longer & leaner over the last 3 months.

Drum roll please...

The moment(s) we've all been waiting for... (these are actually 2 different events & not just one video that's been edited)

Short version, for you "cut to the chase" viewers:



Longer, cuter version for the grandparents to enjoy:

Christmas 2009

My sister, Jennifer, created this super cool image from a photo I took of Julia's foot:

From Feet

While you're at it, have a gander at a few of the photos that were taken during our Christmas celebration:

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas to you all.

Hand-Eye Coordination

We did some hand-eye coordination drills today. Julia is getting quite good at swatting her little centipede. I think it's her favorite because it rattles.

Baby Bjorn!

A major milestone for us today. I was finally able to coax Julia to climb into her Baby Bjorn. This is huge for me as it frees up both my hands to do various things around the house while caring for her. Can you say, "multitasking?" This morning, in the short 20 minutes I was able to carry her around, I was able to make breakfast & coffee, start 2 loads of laundry, go to the building lobby & pickup my newspaper & take this picture. Yippee!