Summer in Motion
This post and the next capture Julianna over the last month enjoying some of her favorite activities and new found voice.
Playing Catch (1:00) - Julianna loves playing catch both inside and out. This video captures some inside time as she throws it to the dogs and to me.
Chasing Shadows (1:19) - Julianna showing off her speech and communication skills. Also a good example of how Julianna will grab your hand and try and pull you to what she wants to do.
Dance Dance (0:47) - This video shows off Julianna 'dancing' to September, one of our new favorite songs.
Keep on Sliding!
This collection of photo's catches Julianna in some of her favorite activities. She loves playing with sun glasses, running in the rain, letting her little people slide down the slide, hula's, and playing the drums. First time using the umbrella though it was more a novelty of holding it more than anything. Also working the slide action with her little people and wrapping up the post with some awesome drumming.
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- Cool Shades
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- First Time Umbrella
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- Little People Slide
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- Do you hula?
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- Little People Slide Catcher
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- Julianna banging on the drums
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- Still loves it!
Fly Girl
We are not on a flight path but from time to time will get a flight fly over the house. Julianna loves to find the plane in the sky, point, and wave at the plane that fly by all the while saying 'hey...hey'. The next four shots capture Julianna playing with her Hula's which we pull out every time we play outside at the play set. For shot #6 we treated Julianna to watermelon slices which we stripped her down for, it gets everywhere! It was fresh and tasted great. Put a shot in from our morning sippy cup lessons and a shot of Julianna's favorite sandals. We finish out the set with Julianna enjoying some fresh melon. She has had this fruit before but never on the rind.
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- Watching an Airplane fly by
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- Hula’s!
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- Who has a Hula Halo?
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- Ahha!
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- Pretty girl
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- Julianna loves Watermelon
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- Sipping is fun!
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- Julianna’s favorite sandles
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- Results my vary…
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- Much better!
Sweet Summer Fun
The first shot captures Julianna coming back from Salsa Fresh from Lunch drinking her lemonade. Papa spoils her by letting her keep the cup. Julianna still has the habit of turning up the cup when it gets to the bottom. The second shot is of Julianna fresh from a nap, smiling, and waiting to be picked up out of her crib. Picture 3 and 4 capture some work we have been doing to get Julianna used to drinking out of a cup by using a 3 ounce cup with 2 ounces of liquid. So far so good! The shot of the tub is sans bubbles as the all natural soap we were using doesn't produce bubbles...but it does produce amazing skin. We have gone back to our previous soap...NEED THOSE BUBBLES! We then round out the post with two shots of Julianna drinking her morning OJ and the last shot is Julianna running back to the house with her hair swishing about. Frannie is such a good sport for working with her and the leash.
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- Julianna loves her Lemonade!
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- Nap Time Done and Ready to Rock!
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- 3oz cups are a great learning tool
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- Julianna mastering sipping
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- Bath time is FUN TIME!
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- Morning Straw for OJ
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- Good to the last drop!
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- Julianna running with the dogs. Check out that hair!
Little Dirty Feet
As the summer continues to march forward she continues to enjoy her play set, sandbox, and the many joys of summer such as time out on the deck and running around bare foot. On the development side her vocabulary of spoken words increases daily as she has started to complete sentences of books she knows by heart and she has 'yes' and 'no' down. Unfortunately sometimes gets stuck on the 'no' word but that's just a phase...hopefully a quick phase! 🙂
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- Julianna loves going bare foot
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- Julianna loves flags. Needless to say we love the Home Depot flag…
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- Bubble Beard?
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- Don’t mind if I do!
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- Catching bubbles out on the deck
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- …almost got it.
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- Swinging…ahh yeah!
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- Up high!
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- Action shot!
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- Loving it!
Summer Time Veggies
We have a little garden that we have going with some tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and a couple of herbs. Julianna helps us with the watering with her own sized can. We have a couple things on the vine but nothing yet harvested.
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- Helping with the watering
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- Taking a break
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- Given me the snarky smiles
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- Shy girl
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- Cutey’s are always in season!
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- Surpise?
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- Nah…
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- Ready for juice papa…
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- Less pictures and more juice papa!
Summer Strawberries
This collection captures Julianna enjoying some of her favorite activities including fruit, visiting the pond, staking blocks, and playing outside. Enjoy!
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- Spring time brings fresh Strawberry’s which are one of Julianna’s favorites
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- Morning OJ Ritual continues
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- Biscuitville biscuits are GOOOOOD…
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- Julianna offers a bite of her apple
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- Stacker!
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- Potty Training has begun!
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- Selfie!
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- Trip to the pong to feed the ducks and turtles
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- Took an umbrella just in case it rained
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- Julianna shows Papa how to push her Trike
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- Surprised!
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- Teeth brushing time!
Summer Reading
Catching up with Julianna being a good girl while we do errands, showing that bath time is always fun time, getting in mom's house slippers, lining up her little people to watch the people across the street doing tree work, and then the last couple are of her reading in her room, downstairs, and playing on her sit in spin.
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- Chilling while we Run Errands
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- Bath Time!
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- Loves wearing big people shoes
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- Little people are watching people work across the street
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- Quiet time in her room reading
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- Surprise!?
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- Julianna reading her new Peppa Pig book
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- Morning fun time with the dogs!
Trip to the pond!
Here are a couple of video's from a trip last weekend to our little 'lake' that is teeming with fish, turtles, geese, and a couple of ducks (which didn't make it over this time around). Julianna refers to the geese as ducks, we just roll with it for now, enjoy!
Here come the ducks!
Feeding the ducks
Breakfest Expert
Julianna knows how to work the system, getting some of my cereal before moving on to a fruit which for the last 6 months has been grapes. Or Grey-pee's as we like to jokingly call them. And Julianna can now clean her own hands which she shows for us in picture #4. Also caught up with Julianna in the tub with the last shot showing off how long her hair is getting!
