Chucky Cheese

My brother and sister in law are in Mexico right now so my mom, sister, and I are sharing Ben this week and he has stayed the night at my house the last couple of nights. My 2 favorite things that he said to me these last few days are "its yummy to my tummy", when I gave him his breakfast, and "I am SO happy", again, when I gave him his breakfast. What a joy he is. My mom and I took Ben and Julianna to Chucky Cheese's yesterday and it is completely different from what I remember. They had a blast...and my mom and I had some fun too. Here are a few pictures from the morning.

Just Because

I love this age because Julianna can, and does, do things "just because" she feels like it. Because she is so dang cute, and not even 2, she can get away with wearing a birthday hat when it isn't her birthday while eating dinner and getting ready for a bath, and she can wear a halloween fairy costume when it is not halloween:) I teared up...like I seem to do many times a day...when I was upstairs and I see her little body coming up the stairs with a purse on her shoulder and her birthday hat on. These days are the greatest!

In Love

I am so in love with my little missy moo...yes that is what I call her sometimes and the other day she was pushing her car backwards saying "back up missy moo, back up missy moo". I laughed so hard I think some tears may have flown:) She never ceases to amaze me in her ability to talk, repeat EVERYTHING I say, and make me smile every single day. Here are some recent pictures. Enjoy!

Happy 4th of July!

We went to my parent's cabin over on lake Entiat for the 4th this year, and had such a relaxing, fun time! Julianna spent much of her time in the pool since the 95 degree weather made it nearly impossible to not want to get wet! As you can see, Julianna was very patriotic this year:) We had so much fun and can't wait to do some more boating and swimming. Ahhhhhh summer!

Happy Birthday

Julianna likes to sing now. Often Jeremy and I will stand outside of her bedroom in the mornings and listen to her attempting to sing, among other things:) Lately she likes to sing happy birthday. I can only assume it is because we just celebrated her cousin Ben's birthday in May. She usually claps after she is done, although she does not in this video. It is so funny. Enjoy!

Our little genius

Julianna is seriously the smartest 1 and a half year old there is. We have a poster of all of the presidents and yesterday is the first time she looked at it. I pointed out President Lincoln a couple of times and now whenever we tell her to show us Lincoln, out of all of the presidents up to Bush, she points to Lincoln. What a genious (says mommy) :) She seems to be growing up so quickly, and surprises me everyday with what she knows!

Here's just a cute picture of her and her daddy from the other day...don't you just want to kiss her?!

Driving already!

We went to my parent's cabin for memorial day weekend and had a blast. Julianna decided that she wanted to drive the boat and the jet ski...I have to admit, I was a little nervous but she did a good job:)