Recent Pictures

I thought I would post some recent pictures of Julia. Not much going on here except Julia is very excited about Christmas (just the idea of it, she has no idea she gets presents....that will be a big bonus when she finds that out). I was trying to prep her on taking her picture with Santa, as last year she cried, and I think I started prepping her a little too early. We are going on 12/1 with my sisters and their kids/spouses to get Santa pictures and since last night that I told her we were going she has asked about every ten minutes if she can go and sit on Santa's lap yet. She is reading all her Christmas books and loves to dance to Christmas music......um, the next month is going to be VERY long.

Our two princesses

I LOVE ice cream!!!!!

Julia and a friend disappeared during our moms group and were reading books with no shirts on :-)

can't really tell, but this is Julia's fat lip which she got from tripping :-(

Bath time....in her baby tub (that she hated as a baby and now has found it and loves it!)

Great Wolf Lodge

We finally decided to take the plunge and take a mini vacation to the Great Wolf Lodge. We figured we better go before the baby arrives as we probably won't be back for a few years. When I told her we were going to the water slide park she was so excited to go back to Minnesota! I had to break the news that we weren't going to Minnesota but that she would still have fun. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left she was all smiles and just had a blast. We only ended up staying one night, but were there for two whole days (plenty of time for a two year old at a water park). She was swimming (with a life jacket) everywhere. She was such a big girl. She went down the bigger slides (not the howling tornado like dad, but still the big kid ones) all by herself. I would go to the top with her and Jim would catch her at the bottom. A couple of times she did a 360 down the slide but never seemed to get scared, just wanted to go again. She loved the wave pool, slides, and play toys in the toddler area (which surprisingly she spent the least of her time). She spent her evening in the arcade, just dancing around under the black lights, never played a game. We didn't get nearly as many pictures as we wanted as the place was so wet, duh, but really buckets are constantly dumping water, people can spray you with hoses, etc. I didn't take my camera to the main slides Julia was doing as it would have got soaked. Anyway, we did get some pictures of our fabulous "vacation".

a portion of the water park, the bucket would drop 1000 gallons every 5 minutes or so

Getting ready for the water......

Riding the snake

Down the "baby" slide, this did not get her adrenalin pumping enough like the other slides

Jet-ski riding

Snack break

Nap break, she just passed out the last day before lunch

Type A Personality?

Julia has a new hobby of lining all of her toys up, all day long. And if anything gets out of order then it is very upsetting because she has to then redo the whole line. She calls them trains, but I call it taking after mommy and wanting things neat and orderly ;-). I only hope she keeps her room this clean and orderly when she is a teenager!

ABC magnets on the fridge

Farm Little People and Cinderella (she finds a way of going everywhere)

Blocks

Trick-or-Treat, Pull Down My Underwear

Julia was a little confused on how the trick-or-treat song went, so she spent the day singing, "trick-or-treat, pull down my underwear". Lovely, huh? She thought she was hilarious, so did I. I don't think that Christmas will be able to top Halloween on Julia's fun factor. She had so much fun the entire day, except bedtime. From the moment she opened her eyes, she was in her Halloween costume, a butterfly. We spent the morning around the house and then went to our playgroup, where all the kids dressed up. Julia loved seeing all of the other cute costumes that her friends were wearing. After nap we hung out some more around the house as it was still raining. It miraculously cleared up right at trick-or-treating time. We only went to about 5 houses, but each one gave us hand fulls of candy as they all knew us. Julia did well saying trick-or-treat and thank you. She did not want to come home at all. We knew that she would enjoy opening the door for all of the trick-or-treaters that we get, so we had her do that. Our neighbor and her 5 year old daughter came over to trick-or-treat and ended up staying :-). Lauren and Julia just wanted to play and answer the door, so they had a lot of fun doing that. When I took Julia to bath time she heard the doorbell ring and started balling, she just wanted to see the costumes. She is already talking about how next year she is going to be a kitty cat, we will see if that holds up......

A Beautiful Butterfly

Playgroup, this is the best picture I could get of all of them...

Off we go down the street to trick-or-treat

Julia was mesmerized by all the candy!

At the Ooymans....