New Tricks

Juliann seems like such a big girl now! Every time we turn around she seems to be doing something new. She's signing, talking and walking more now. She knows how to sign milk, eat, more, book, all done, night-night and water. She's also talking a lot more and trying to repeat words and sounds she hears. She's been saying momma, dadda, book, and dog for a while now but has recently started to say up, down, night-night, bye-bye and hi. She's growing in all sorts of ways and its amazing to watch her each day.

Watching her learn to walk has been exciting and frustrating! She's really wobbly and often falls down, but I give her credit for getting up and trying again! She still chooses crawling over walking if she wants to get somewhere in a hurry but is walking more and more each day! Enjoy the two videos of her walking. One is not so much walking but falling-we had to include it because it was hilarious! You can even hear David laughing in the background. No worries though-she was just fine and even got up and kept walking after we stop recording. Hope everyone is well!

1 year check-up

Juliann went for her one year check-up today. Everything looks great and the doctor said she's progressing normally! She weighs 18lbs 6oz keeping her in the 10% and is 28 1/2 inches tall putting her in the 25-50%. She was such a good baby up until the shots-which I didn't realize she was supposed to get at this appointment. :( She got one in her leg and one in each arm. Then, as if 3 shots weren't enough, they sent us down the hall to the lab to have her finger pricked. She was not a happy baby and I don't blame her. The nurse felt so bad giving her all the shots because just prior to sticking her, they were dancing to music together! I told her all about Juliann's love of Beyonce. :) After a dose of baby Tylenol, Jules is now sleeping. Hopefully when she wakes up she'll be a happy baby again!

Winter Onederland Pictures

Here are some pictures from Juliann's 1st birthday party. We had a Winter ONEderland theme so you'll notice lots of snowflakes and snowmen in the pictures. Enjoy!

Dessert table and scrapbook
Food table-missing a few items!
Jules and her first cupcake

Digging in!

All Done!

Opening gifts!

The box was a big hit with the little ones

Reading in her new chair

Enjoying her first taste of ice cream on her birthday!

1 Year Portraits

We took Juliann to get pictures taken before her first birthday. As usual, she was a happy baby and hamming it up for the camera! We went in to get the $10 package and walked out much lighter in the wallet. We agreed that the memories were worth the money and gave some of the pictures out at her birthday party. I had planned on uploading them onto the blog over the weekend but when I put the cd in the computer it said there were no files! Luckily the portrait studio still had all of her photos saved on file so they were able to make us a new cd. Here are some of our favorites:

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY JULIANN!

1 year ago....WOW! Where does time go? She can't really be turning one-she was in my belly two weeks ago right?!? I can't believe how quickly the time flies, but I am so thankful we have had the past year to get to know our beautiful little girl. What an amazing child! We are so lucky to have her in our lives. We celebrated her first birthday with a Winter ONEderland Party on Saturday and everyone had a blast! Jules had her first sweet, a cupcake, and enjoyed opening all her gifts with her friends and family. Today was a little more low key-running some errands with my parents and lunch at Red Robin, where she had her first taste of ice cream! At 8:01pm we sang "Happy Birthday" to her and made a hand print mold to mark her first birthday. The Super Bowl is on so no pictures tonight. I promise I'll add some soon-we took plenty!