Easter Eggs!

Coloring Easter Eggs with Mom & Dad!

Almost Spring. . .

We've had a lot of fun with friends lately! Here is Julia with Kate Koesters at the zoo, and with the Elle and Jaise Peterson and Addie Gragert, giggling with the crazy Chicken that sings!

We have also had a lot of fun with our new General Mills food set that Toni sent Julia! Toni is a plant manager for a General Mills plant that makes Betty Crocker cake mix! Here is a shameless promotion by Julia! So far her favorite is the ice cream and although we keep telling her its not real - she keeps trying it!

Jules is talking more and more. Common phrases now include "I don't want it" - not sure where she got that one - "I'll be right back" - "I need to go potty", etc. We are looking forward to some warm weather so we can explore outside in our new yard and at the park two blocks away!

Snow, Etc

Okay so we have a lot of catching up to do! Snow, cupcakes, and fun fun fun!

This was a nice day after a mid-February snowfall!















































Valentines and Cupcakes! We had friends over to decorate cupcakes for Valentine's Day - it was really fun!

Winter Fun!

Trying to make the best of cold outdoor weather. Here is Julia and Dad building a fort! The finished product was quite impressive, but apparently I forgot to get a shot of it.

Julia is talking much more these days. She is regularly putting two words together and is starting to say the beginnings of 123 and ABC! We laughed the other day when the first 3 word phrase we heard out of her mouth were "Bailey Get Down!"

She has also started a hilarious "stance" dad taught her. She gets in the football stance with two pointer fingers on the ground, says Ready, we say Set, and she says Go! And off she runs. It is pretty cute. I am guessing that will make the blog one of these days as well.

Julia with her godmother Stacy and little Will - what a cutie!













Blowing Bubbles in the Tub!



























Pigtails!













Julia loves her sled. See the video for "ready, set, go." She cried for 20 minutes after we came in, begging to get taken back out for more "sed, more sed"

Christmas, Part Two

Happy 2009! The week after Christmas we had festivities with the Ringenberg's. It was a lot of fun - Julia and Mallory enjoyed their "baking" supplies for their kitchen and Julia also got a stylin sled and a vacuum from Great Grandma R! Here she is practicing her overly entergetic "cheese" smile.









Julia and Daddy playing doctor! She is really good about making "thump, thump" sounds and generally seems to know just where to find them.












Julia and Grandpa dancing to "Julia and a Drum" from the Julia soundtrack from Scot and Kendy.














Awww . . . .














Again . . . aw . . . .
















Making the first of many messes with their new mixing bowls and measuring cups for their kitchens.












Julia and Mom got matching cupcake aprons from Aunt Kendy - too too cute!
















Grandma L the chef has years of baking experience to teach the wee ones :)












Oh and when we don't play with kitchens - its all about babies!













My sled is pretty cool inside - can't wait to get some snow to try it out!
















Ah the Kirby Kegger. . 4th Annual . . fun times













Julia, Kyle and I headed down to the Children's Museum while Kyle had some time off over Christmas - we will definitely be back - what a fun place!

Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone - we had a great time and the fun isn't quite over yet - two more Christmas' to go! Julia got a Kitchen! She loves it and we have a feeling Cousin Mallory will enjoy it when she comes over as well - unfortunately we will need two identical cups, plates, bowls, etc to keep them both happy! :)

Julia had a lot of fun playing with cousin Kaden at the Brown Christmas - until he placed his hand on the toys she wanted (as evidenced by the photos below) :( Such a
dramatic 18 month old we have on our hands :)
Hope everyone had a great holiday! Happy New Year!