Obsessed!!!

Julia has a pair of shoes she absolutely LOVES!! You know she is obsessed when the minute she wakes up she has to put them on and will not take them off until bed or nap time. She is totally obsessed! And she also has to have socks on all day even when she sleeps...so socks and shoes at all times all day long. The other day we went out shopping and she wanted to wear those black shoes but said they didn't match her outfit...she put up a fight but the art of distraction works wonders on her. But the minute we got home off came the brown and on went the black. Crazy kid!

Saturday Chores

I was at work and heard the CD player playing "If you're Happy and you know it" and took a peek out my door and saw these two working together on the sink full of dishes! So cute to just sit and watch them for a bit while the kid tunes played in the background. They didn't know I was there until I snapped the picture. Precious moments! And a big "THANKS" guys for helping me clean the kitchen!!

Coo-Coo for CoCo!!

CONAN, CONAN, CONAN!! We will miss spending our nights with you. You brought us so much laughter and its sad to see you have to go. Please come back to us in the Fall!!

P.S. The Tonight Show will now be banned in our home.....

How Does She Do It??

Where's Julia??



Does this look comfortable to you??

Magic Words

If anyone has seen the kid cartoon, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, they know that Mickey asks for the magic words for the clubhouse to appear. Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse. Well in sacrament meeting today Layne was keeping Julia occupied with goldfish treats. He was holding the goldfish tight in his hand and this conversation occured:

Julia: Open hand daddy.
Layne: What are the magic words?
Julia: Meeska, Mooska, Hand!

Laughing ensued after that.

Band-aids

Another obsession with Julia is getting a band aid everytime she hurts herself, like a bonk on the head or a pinched finger. She knows right where to get them to. She will usually just go and get one and then come show me wear it hurts. She really prefers the Garfield band aides we have and cries if she pulled something else out of the box. Her word for band aide is ban gaid. So funny when she says it...I make her repeat it just to get another chuckle. When anyway, today Julia had a flashlight and proceeded to unscrew it and exposed the tiny light bulb and I think she has put it in her mouth because the next thing I know she came in and said her mouth hurt and I said it was ok, you'll be alright. Next thing I know she goes into the bathroom and brings me a "ban gaid" and says, "cats on it mommy?" I said nope lets go get a cat one and then she opens it and puts it on all by herself where it hurt.......resulting in this..........

Man, this kid really cracks me up some days!!!

Flower Child

New obsession with Julia...her flower hat. I got this a long time ago for her when she wasn't even 1 yr old yet and never ever liked to wear it. Now she seems to want to wear it all the time and the amazing part is she puts it on all by herself and will wear it all day! The other day we got ready to go to the store and she said "shoes, socks, ready to go." I said yep lets get those on and then she proceeds to say "coat and hat too mommy." I said OK whatever you want. So I got some cute pictures of her when strapped down in her seat. Its looking a little small but still really cute!

Underwear Bandit

Julia had just gotten up from a nap and I told her I got her a surprise at the store. I showed her and she was a little disappointed. She just looked at me and gave me the back the package after I had handed it to her and actually said to me "don't want it mommy." I guess brand new Minnie and Puppy underwear is not what she expected or wanted when I said I had a surprise for her. Oh, well. So daddy showed her what she could do with the new underwear and this is the result.............

THE UNDERWEAR BANDIT

All 11 pairs of new underwear

Daddy showed her how to put them on and she decided to put them all on

The view from the back. Daddy did have to help her
get the last few pairs on. We had a good laugh!

Winter Fun

Julia is always excited to get bundled up and play outside. She doesn't quite know what to do yet. She won't just get out there and play. Because the snow is so crunchy she is afraid to walk by herself because with every step she sinks and her feet get stuck. So she just stands in place until someone takes her hand and helps her. We found a sled at Grandma Mott's house and we pulled her around in it. Amy pulled for awhile but then it was my turn. It didn't last long when it was my turn because we got going a little to fast around a corner and Julia rolled out into the snow and she wasn't happy. She screamed and her faced was covered in snow. She kept saying, "cold snow, fall down." We tried again and as soon as I started to go to fast she would scream, "mommy stop." To afraid to fall out again. Well, needless to say we went inside after that last attempt. Hopefully she will get use to walking and just learning that its ok to sit down and fall down and just play in the snow!!