Happy Halloween

It was a cloudy, rainy day in VA…. perfect weather for a duck!

Happy Halloween! Quack Quack!

A Beautiful Fall Day

Today was a perfect fall day in Virginia, warm, beautiful leaves, and lots of sunshine.  We took advantage of this break from our downpours to go pick out pumpkins and watch the Del Ray Halloween parade for the first time. 

 

To top off a wonderful day, we discovered that Julia has gotten her first tooth!  It was a fun and exciting day all around!

Jumpin’ Julia

Julia was having a great time in her jumperoo yesterday… and we were having a great time watching her!

 

Look how much I’ve grown!!!

2 weeks old:

8 months old:

Closer to Walking

So right after I wrote my earlier post we had a breakthrough on the walking front!  Julia has spent the evening walking holding onto only one hand!  Any of you who have been subject to Julia’s walking practice for the past eight weeks or so can appreciate my and Andrew’s excitement at the prospect of maybe being able to stand up straight sometime soon!  In the video below she’s pretty wobbly but she got steadier and steadier as she went along.

8 Months Old

Julia turned 8 months old today!  Everyone told us that the time would fly and they were right.  We no longer have a little baby we have an almost toddler who has definite opinions!  She loves solid food, particularly peaches, peas, string cheese and… pickles.  Crazy girl – she won’t eat bananas but she’ll eat pickles!  She also loves to “walk” holding onto our fingers and pretty much goes non-stop all day long.  She will stand on her own for a few seconds and occasionally will cruise a few steps here or there, holding onto furniture.  She doesn’t seem interested in crawling at all – she prefers to walk – but maybe she’ll surprise us one day.  She has started saying “mamamama” and we’re trying to work on “dadadada” but I think “quack quack” might come first.  She loves her ducks!  She also loves to be outside and is content to sit on the lawn, pull up the grass, and watch the neighborhood go by… or maybe try to chase the older kids (I’m getting my exercise)!

Just in the last few days she has started what we think is pointing at things; although it looks more like a power fist pump than anything else as she still keeps her fist balled up!  It’s very cute.

We are amazed every day that we have our beautiful Julia and are looking forward to being amazed for the months and years to come! 

Visit From Grandpa Rick and Grandma Lesley

We had a wonderful visit from Rick and Lesley this past weekend.  On Friday night, we introduced them to our favorite spicy pizza which they both really enjoyed.  Saturday we went apple and blackberry picking which was a blast.  That night we played Scrabble and Yatzee which was a total blast.  I think we need to find a local group to do game night with.   Then Sunday we fixed the hole that was accidently created in our bedroom ceiling.  While we were walking around the attic, scoping out a future ceiling fan project, Rick tripped over a pipe, missed the plank we were walking on and put his foot through the ceiling.  Once we realized that he was OK, it was actually kind of funny.  One of those events that you only see on TV.  I would post pictures but somehow Alyssa and I misplaced our camera for the weekend.  Hopefully Lesley preserves the pictures we took on their camera.  And it was interesting to learn how to drywall.  :)

Overall it was a great weekend that went by way too fast.  And we can’t wait for them to come visit again.