Santa Baby

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Our cards were a bit late this year :) Best wishes in the New Year as well! Julia is just growing like a weed and had all sorts of fun visiting with family over Christmas weekend - with a little crankiness from travel and lack of naps!

Julia had some great pictures taken for her 6 month "birthday" If you want to check them out go to www.taylanbrooks.com, proofing and enter "ringenberg" as the password.

It seems Julia does something different or discovers something new every day. She has started to stand while holding herself up. We also tried baby food for the first time. These pictures show her reactions - first bite of pears and 3 seconds after first bite of pears. Also note Megan holding Julia's bib 20 seconds after her first bite of pears. In Jules' defense, she was still feeling a little under the weather at that time.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all had a great holiday. Julia is doing more things every day - she is sitting really well by herself, eating her cereal like a champ, and is starting to reach for just about everything Mom and Dad have in their hands!

Julia saw her first snow this week, enjoyed lounging in her sweet new holiday jammies that fairy godmother Stacy got us, and made her first hat at daycare - the jury is still out as to exactly what it is, but it is cute nonetheless!

Julia - November update

Julia has had a busy November - We spent some time playing with Cousin Mallory (she showed Julia how to play in the exersaucer!) and our friend Leila Klem!

We also enjoyed wearing our new winter coat from G & G Brown and 'Cutie' outfit from Aunt Casey :)

Julia's First Halloween

Julia was a little "Love" bug for Halloween. We had fun trick o' treating at Grandpa R's work, G & G Browns and the Elkhorn Library!

First Trip to the Zoo

Julia went to the Henry Doorly Zoo for the first time on Sunday, Oct 28th. We went with G & G Ringenberg, Scot, Kendy & Mallory! We took lots of fall photos - here's some of the highlights! One wouldn't really be able to tell we were at the zoo based on the pics!

Julia Christine - So Busy!

Julia had a very busy week! It was dad's birthday on Wednesday so we went to dinner - good pic of dad and Jules :)

Her fairy godmother Stacy stopped by, along with godfather Sam. - Julia was in her very hip pumpkin hat - courtesy Grandma Lorraine. So cute!

We spent Saturday in Moville with Great Grandma Bernice and then. . .


on Monday we went to visit Julia's new very good friend - Katelyn Rose Koesters! She was born on Friday, October 19th - her mom's birthday :) Katelyn and Kara are doing well! She is a cutie!

Julia - our little pumpkin

Some new pics of Julia and a short video of her giggles! She is doing well - getting the cereal thing down pretty good and having fun!

Julia is 4 months old!

Julia has had a busy last few weeks! She had her 4 mo check up and is officially "proportional" according to the charts at 75% across the board for weight (14 lbs 1 oz), height (25 inches) and head size. She had a bad reaction to her shots, running a fever for darn near 24 hours and had a really hard time sleeping - luckily it passed fairly quickly! Julia also got to meet friends Toni and Drew last week, which was exciting - we like it when friends come to visit - she was not influenced by their Iowa State gear - although the Missouri game has her thinking twice about next week's Saturday wardrobe - maybe the Husker cheerleading outfit has bad luck written all over it!

Jules had her first cereal on Sunday and the reaction is a bit mixed so far- if you want to watch the really long video, be our guest - we are just starting to figure it out and somehow we downloaded everything from Julia rolling over at 3 months, to her first cereal feeding at the end of the video! About 32 minutes worth! Whoops. Some of the video is less than stellar so we apologize. She is standing pretty well with help and is loving sitting on our laps -starting to feel independent :) Hope you are all doing well!

Julia Christine - almost 4 months!

Just a quick update here for Julia - We'll get a nice big amount of photos for her 4 month birthday this coming weekend :) Here she is with Grandma Vic in her garden and with Grandpa Jim, celebrating his birthday!

Julia Christine - 3 1/2 months!

Jules attended her first Husker Tailgate party last week - it was a little chilly and unfortunately the game didn't end up being all that whippy either :(

We also enjoyed spending time with Aunt Katie!

The video below is of a pretty darn cute giggle session we had with Julia on 9/18.

Julia is 3 months old!

Julia is now 3 months old and in the last few days she started to roll over - a very exciting feat. However, she hates being on her tummy so once she gets there she tends to get a little upset - we did catch a photo of her before she started crying though!

Jules and dad watched their first Husker game together and we spent Grandparents Day at the Lauritzen Gardens with Grandma and Grandpa Ringenberg. We're hopeful for more interest in the flowers from Jules next year :)