Saturday, September 8, 2007

September 8, 2007

Daddy left for his fishing trip in Canada with Poppy (my dad) and Uncle Joey today. We are both missing him already. I am already realzing how hard single parents have it. Oh well, he works hard and totally deserves a vacation. I do think that he was struggling with leaving Julianna behind. I heard him telling her the other day that she was his most favorite person in the world. I said "so I have been officially replaced, huh?" He said, very seriously, "Number 2 in the whole world isn't bad either..." I guess I can't argue with that. Hee.

I really just wanted to drop off a couple of pics before trying to catch a few minutes of sleep before Muffin wakes for the first of many times tonight. Uggh!

XOXOX


Look at those SKINNY little frog legs!






I thought baths were supposed to calm a baby down before bed.....



Books

This kid LOVES books. I mean LOVES them. She loves hardcover, paperbacks, children's, and magazines. She loves to hold them, look at the pictures and turn their pages, and occasionally eat them.... She often babbles while looking at them and I swear it sounds like she is reading them in baby language. Below are a few pics from this week.








Thursday, September 6, 2007

Sept. 6, 2007

Sorry I haven't updated on Julianna is soooo long. We have had a pretty uneventful week. I have been trying to stick close to home this week and REALLY try to keep Muffin on a nap/bedtime schedule. Well despite my best efforts, it hasn't worked AT ALL. Last night she was up from 1:30 am - 4:15 am. There was nothing that I could do to persuade her that she really did need to sleep. She can stand up in her crib now and she cries while shaking the crib rail like she is in jail. I have no idea where she gets these overdramatic tendencies :) But other than her (lack of) sleeping she is doing great. She is so sweet and keeps us laughing all the time. She has grown quite attached to her blankey and when you pick her up out of her crib she looks back in it until you bring blankey along too.

She is also crawling all over the place. She crawls right up to the sofa, ottoman, insert any other piece of furniture here, and stands right up. She is starting to cruise the furniture a bit also. I think she is going to need a crash helmet before we are through. She has fallen down a couple of times and my does she howl. I think that it scares her more than anything because she doesn't have any bruises or anything yet. It is so hard to see her hurt. I try to stay pretty close to her but I guess there just isn't anyway to ALWAYS catch her when she falls. I guess these little ones are pretty resilient.

Oh yea, and still no sign of any teeth. I found a picture of Ryan from when he was 18 months old (I know because it was Halloween) and he only had 4 teeth! 2 on top and 2 on the bottom. It looks like she is going to take after him. I love her little gummy smile, but only 4 teeth in almost a year from now... She is going to be on vegetable purees forever!

Well here is a slideshow full of pretty unexciting, but still cute pics from this week.

XOXOXO

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

August 28, 2007

This weekend Julianna and I went to the NC mountains for Grandmama's family reunion. We had a great time and escaped the truly oppresive heat in Charlotte. The montage below has several pics from the reunion and some from the nature preseve that Ryan, Julianna, and I walked through on Monday.

***It has been brought to my attention that the quality of the pics in the montage below is not so great. So underneath the montage I have added a little slideshow of the pics that you can scroll through by pushing the next button at the top right hand corner. I hope that this helps!***

XOXOX!




Monday, August 20, 2007

Monday August 20, 2007

Julianna got her very first cold this week :( - And then promptly gave it to me. So we were both pretty pitiful for most of last week. Muffin seems to be feeling better, but her nose is still quite runny and stuffy. I developed some bacterial infection in my throat from all the post nasal drip and ended up going to the dr's. I got on antibiotics and feel quite a bit better. Anyway, I really tried to get a pitiful picture of Muffin while she was feeling pretty poorly. But when I would get the camera out she would smile even though one second ago she looked generally miserable. She is such a little sweetie! Well I didn't get a ton of pics this week, but here are a few:


She really was looking totally pitiful until I pulled out the camera.


Daddy brought her home a new toy because he felt so bad that she was sick!





Sunday, August 12, 2007

Sunday August 12, 2007

Today Julianna and I went to church with Grandmama and Granddaddy. I left her in the nursery for the first time today. It was the first time that I have EVER left her with anyone other than her grandmothers (and daddy, of course). They said that she did great. I have to admit that my mind was more on Muffin than on the Sermon....









Pics from this past week (8/5 - 8/11).

Here are a few cute pics from this week. Since, as Granddaddy pointed out, I have already ruined any chance for a future career in politics with the posting of past naked pictures, I have decided to go ahead and post a couple more :)