Julia at Six Months

The two weeks before she turned six months were big ones for our little Julia.  She started rolling over, she is now weaned onto bottles, started on baby foods, and got her first two teeth (on the bottom)!  She is also getting much better at sitting up.

In the past two months she laughs more and more and has found her voice.  She knows how to give big open mouth kisses and is discriminating about doling them out.  JD has to work hard to earn one, but she will always give me one.  It is good for my self esteem because whenever JD is around Macy has no need for me.

Statistics
weight: 18 pounds 15 ounces  (89%)
height:  26 1/2 inches  (66%)
head circumference:  16 1/2 inches (29%)
nicknames: Chunkers, Chunkerella, Juju, *Jubels, baby Ju
hair:  brown and sparse
squeezability:  off the charts

She is an absolute joy.

*JD started calling Jubels and then we found out it means laughter and merriment in German

Santa 2010

Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh

We took our last trip to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving.  We have really grown to love that city.  It is so beautiful.

I didn't take many pictures but we had fun visiting the aviary, Amish country, the mall to visit Santa, Trax farm market and the petting zoo.  Macy made her first gingerbread house and loved playing on the bunk beds.

We went to the petting zoo in the freezing almost dark.  The sheep were climbing all over Macy and she loved it.  But the small birds flying around us at the aviary scared her. 

We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with the sister missionaries and an investigator.  After dinner, the missionaries taught a discussion.  It was so interesting to sit in and get a good feel for the missionary work.

The girls were great travelers and it was (as always) so fun to see Grammy and Grampy!

Halloween 2010

This is the first year we have carved pumpkins with Macy.  She did not like the smell of the guts.  We actually let her use the carving kit knife and helped her cut her pumpkin.  She loved stabbing the pumpkins and was stabbing the knives in and then yelled out "I made mine into Shrek".  I turned around and it was definitely a Shrek pumpkin.   JD carved the others, I started Minnie but was side tracked with feeding Julia and cleaning up.

And for some reason I let Macy just keep stabbing her poor pumpkin because she was enjoying it so much.

This shows the multiple stab wounds

And here are the costumes:

too blurry but seriously, how funny is this picture?

It was a cold and rainy Halloween.  We are lucky that Macy loves to hand out candy at the door and we didn't need to be out in the cold for long.  JD did take her trick or treating to four houses and then she was ready to man the door again.  She would really build up the suspense with the kids as she would almost drop the candy in their bag and then hurry and drop it in the next kids bag.  They would always laugh and beg her for one. 

Julia's Blessing

JD gave Julia a beautiful blessing on 10.10.10.  We are so grateful for our littlest miracle. 

California Road Trip

* I can't get all the pictures to center.  I have tried for way too long.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  It is making me insane**

On our way to Disneyland we made a stop for one night in St. George and a very fun night and day stay with my sister, Rebecca, and her family in California.  We hadn't seen their amazing new home, and love her cooking, but best of all we got to spend quality time with them.  Macy was slow to warm up but loved the girls, especially the dance parties in the family room.  Brookelyn and Katelyn loved Julia and held her all day.  

Macy slept half the night in Maddie's room but ended up with us.  Maddie woke up and told Rebecca,"you know that girl that was sleeping in my room. . . I lost her."  They are very funny girls and kept us laughing the whole time.

And then we were off to California Adventure and Disneyland.

We spent the first day at California Adventure.  Macy was a little sick but just kept going, even after throwing up.  Our favorite part of the day was the Pixar parade.  Macy kept saying "wow!"

On day two, we were lucky to meet the my sister and her girls at Disneyland.  That day it rained and rained and rained.  We put on our ponchos and stayed until closing and had a good time despite being completely soaked.  It took two days for my shoes to dry out.  That night JD snuck off to the Jazz/Lakers game.  

The third day we did a mix of the two parks and everything was perfect.  No rain, healthy kiddos and not much of a crowd.  We made sure to see the Pixar parade again and stayed for the Color Wonder show.

We bought three day park hopper passes but after a mix up with our pass they comped us a day and we squeezed in several hours on the fourth day before driving back.  We were so happy to have more time there and were completely worn out by the time we made it to the car.

Macy is the perfect age to catch the magic and we thoroughly enjoyed watching her soak it all in. Julia was perfect and I was very surprised by how many rides we could take her on.  

JD's favorite ride was the California Adventures Toy Story ride, Macy's was the huge Ferris Wheel and my favorite part was the Dumbo ride with Macy in the rain. It was freezing and wet and Macy and I were just laughing and laughing. 

We made sure to get a picture of Julia's chipmunk cheeks with Chip

Macy's Musings June-October

Instead of saying "me too" she always says "me either" (pronounced me eader).  It makes for some very funny conversations.

"I'm franking out!"  instead of freaking out.

Macy quickly aligned with JD after Julia was born.  She insists that she came out of his tummy and would like to have all her hair cut off to look just like dad.

While I was in the hospital, Macy wanted nothing to do with me and she still talks about the "itchy" dress I wore everytime we go to Costco (which is right by the hospital).  She told me that when she has a baby she will wear a "soft and fluffy dress." 

Macy loves to call Julia "the tiny one" and talk about how "cute and healthy" she is. And now she calls herself the medium-size girl.  She will not tolerate being called the little or  big girl -- she is medium.

She says "everything you know" to start most sentences.

The other day she told me "Mom, this is really pertinent."  I made her repeat it several times to see if that was really what she was saying.  

JD was expaining who is siblings are and she quickly asked how did you all fit in Gangy's tummy...

She consistently calls the changing pad the padding change.

For the weeks leading up to her first day of school she kept telling us how she was going to preschoolgarten.

We were looking at the books at Target and she asked if Susan Boyle was x's mom.  I won't say who (it's not a family member).  But I thought it was very funny!

Julia at Four Months

 four month stats

weight: 16 pounds 6 ounces (94%)

height: 25 inches (76%)

head circumference: 15.75 inches (21%)

Julia loves to sleep with her hands above her head. 

This time she raised her leg in the air too.

Juju loves to stick her tongue out.  

While trying to get a good picture of her in her blessing dress 

I got about 20 pictures of her with her tongue out.

Julia has started sleeping eleven hours most nights.  She found  her hands this month and loves to snack on them and intertwine them under her chin.  She will smile at anyone willing to humiliate themselves with syrupy baby talk.  JuJu is a serious drooler and loves blowing bubbles.  She loves to coo and talk. She got her first bouquet of flowers -- from her dad, of course.


Julia was a perfect traveler, making our trip to Disneyland very fun. I love how she smiles with her whole body--she pulls her legs to her chest, flaps her arms and opens her mouth wide while tilting her head to the side.