Sometimes... Ugh

Sometimes I could just kick myself. I took several cute photos of Julie sitting up by herself yesterday and as I was going through them on the camera to delete the blurry ones (she moves lots) I accidentally pressed a button that deleted ALL the pictures on the camera... permanently. Ugh! I was so angry with myself. Luckily I recently copied most of them onto the flashdrive and computer, but all of the cute pictures from the weekend were gone. So, I tried to take a couple of new ones of Julie sitting, but by that point she was tired of posing for mom. So, here are the two that I managed to take. And I now know there is a delete-all button and I will NEVER push it again. Blurry, I know, but it's the best I could do with a baby who wobbles Me and Julie... Arek calls this her "sailor" outfit (with jeans cuz it's real pants are shorts and it's just too cold out for her to be wearing those yet). My favorite thing about it is the matching head band. Thanks Mom for keeping all of Rachel's baby outfits.... most are the wrong season but we make them work :)

Nothing Like a Good Book

I love reading. It is one of my favorite past times. I have always wanted to share that love with my kids. Luckily we had lots of friends and family give (and loan) us books for us to read with Julie. Most of them are short little board books, with less than 10 words on each page. Julie loves me to read them to her. Last weekend while we were at Arek's parents, Julie was getting fussy so I read Julie "Are You My Mother?" (the full-length version), and then Arek's dad read it to her and then he also read her "Go, Dog, Go". My little angel listened quietly the entire time... I was amazed how long her attention span lasted. It was so sweet to see her snuggled up with her grandpa, sucking her thumb and "reading" the book. What a cutie.

cheaper is NOT always better

so recently we decided to try using the cheap brand of diapers... huggies are just so expensive. the first day we had a huge blowout but it didn't happen again too bad for a few days. we thought, "we can live with an occasional blowout." well then last night she had her biggest blowout over and arek firmly decided that we will deal with the pricier huggies... just so we don't have to deal with the mess every few days. hopefully once solids come into play we can go back to cheaper diapers, until then we are sticking to namebrand. unless anyone has had luck with cheap ones? i'm definitely up for suggestions! here's my messy girl... arek insisted on a photo. (and, honestly, this makes it look better than it was!)

My Little Chunky Monkey

Last Friday Julie had her 4 month check-up. Lo and behold, our little girl (whom i affectionately refer to as my chunky monkey) is, indeed, chunky. She weighed in at 15 lbs 9 oz (88% for girls) and 25.5 inches (90% for girls). We are so happy with our little chubbo. She certainly has her own personality. Still not rolling over yet, but she loves to sit up and trade her toys between her hands. She has also weaned herself off her binky... she has decided that her thumb tastes better and is much more convenient, and no one can try to convince her otherwise! She loves to go to the library with her mom and play peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake and wheels-on-the-bus. And anything that she can get to her mouth gets duley slobbered on... she can't wait to be able to start trying foods. She's already starting to lick her lips and eye all pieces of food that Arek and I eat. So, to make a long story short, we love our little growing girl!

Random

Julie loves going outside. Unfortunately, the only time she gets to go outside without her carseat is to walk the 10 yards to the mailbox and back. This entails getting her all bundled up in her Carter's bear outfit, which she suprisingly never fusses about getting into. It's only about a two minutes outing but she loves it! I can't wait to take her on long walks and play days when the weather turns warmerJulie loves being able to sit up in her bumbo

We discovered Julie's first real "owie" the other day on her elbow... and neither of knew where she got it. That's kids for you, right? :)

I just love my sleeping baby girl!

Play Time with Dad

Arek loves to play with Julie when he is all finished with work and school stuff. Here's just a bunch of snapshots of one of their playtime sessions:

Major Accomplishment

So it's been a while... and I forgot my camera at home, so no pictures, sorry... next time, I promise. BUT Julie has officially slept through the night. She'd gotten pretty good at waking up only once, but then around the new year she caught a cold and went back to two or three times a night. So finally last week she got over her cold and started waking up only once again. I was so happy. Then yesterday was rough... she didn't nap as well as she usually does and she was fussy all evening. But she finally fell asleep around 11 and this morning she didn't wake up until 8:40, when I had to wake her up to feed and change her before taking Arek to school. I was so proud of her. And she didn't even wake up screaming for food... just my bright eyed, smiley morning baby. So, hopefully it was not a fluke, and Julie really is starting to sleep through the night. Arek and I got to bed by midnight and my body woke up at 7:30 all by itself, and let me tell you, 7 1/2 hours of straight sleep never felt so good! :)