Family Fun

Julie has really gotten into playing at the park. She loves the swings and slides and will go down the slide as many times as we let her. She is growing up so fast. We are reminded of how small she still is seeing her playing at the park with the bigger kids, but we can see the big kid in her as she tries so hard to keep up with all of them. She just laughs and laughs while going down the slides and begs to do it again. We love playing with her at the park.




Here are a few more pictures from last week. Julie figured out how to climb up onto the dining room table and it's one of her new favorite things to do. This first picture is of Julie sitting on the table with Mugo. She is all about climbing these days, on anything and everything. And of course, she still loves her daddy's shoes and tries to walk in them all of the time. The third picture is of Julie doing another one of her favorite things, emptying her dresser drawers. I like to think she's just re-organizing. : )




On Saturday, we went to the Memphis Riverpark downtown on Mud Island and visited the river museum and walked along the Mississippi River model in the park. We had a really good time. We rode the monorail back and forth and Julie got to play in the water fountain with her Daddy. It was hot, but we really enjoyed spending time outside, being tourists in our own city. In the afternoon we did a little shopping and Julie napped for a while. We went out to dinner at my favorite place, El Porton, and then even got ice cream after dinner. It was a great day together!

Vacation!!

We spent last week on vacation with my family in Gulf Shores, AL and had a terrific time. It was Julie's first time to the beach, and after warming up to the sand, she had a great time. She loved getting to hang out and play with her Papaw, Grandma, Aunt April, Aunt Robin and Uncle Chris for a whole week. She was certainly spoiled by all of the attention, and we were spoiled too by a great week at the beach. What follows are a lot of pictures of Julie at the beach, playground, in the condo and at an arcade, in no particular order. We, of course, took a ton a pictures and this is a random sampling of some of the cute ones of Julie playing with her family. It's a bit lonely with just the two of us here at the house today after spending a week with everyone, but we have lots of fun memories and pictures. And we're already looking forward to doing it all again next year! : )

Peek-A-Boo!!

Saturday Zoo Trip

We love taking Julie to the zoo. And since we have a membership this year, Julie and I go pretty often during the week. But this week we went on Saturday so Ben could go with us and we had a great time. We sure wore Julie out, she fell asleep before we got to the monkeys, her favorite part. We packed a picnic and spent a good part of the afternoon just letting Julie wonder around the zoo. It was a great day.

More Julie Pictures

Julie has recently taken interest in shoes, hers, mine, Ben's, it doesn't matter. She wants to wear them all. Here she is wearing a pair of Daddy's shoes.


Ben has a small basket on our dresser that he keeps his wallet, keys and such in when he gets home from work each day. Julie has been trying to get at it for a while now. So one day last week she decided to push her scooter toy into the bedroom and use it to get to the basket. She was so very proud of herself.


Here's Julie with her Big Dog that her grandparents gave to her. It's really soft and she loves cuddling with it. So do the cats. : )

What have we been up to lately?

It's been forever since I've updated and there's been a lot going on! Julie has now TWO teeth, she's begun eating with her big girl fork, spoon and plate, she is gradually moving on from the bottle to a big girl cup, and she is becoming more and more independent each day. Ben and I went to visit his brother and his wife, Paul and Amy, over the Memorial Day weekend so we could play with our niece and meet our new nephew. Julie spent the weekend being spoiled by her grandparents and had a great time. We are enjoying the summertime weather and spend a lot of time outside these days. We're having a great time!!

Here's Julie's hairdo after Daddy gave her a bath. What a cutie!


Not a great picture of me, but I still love it.


Here she is showing off her TWO teeth!


We've put her to work! Cold drink anyone? Just kidding, of course. Anything that has a handle like this Julie loves to carry around the house.


Julie loves climbing up into and sitting in the big chairs in the back yard. She's getting so big!


Julie has recently discovered Mugo's kitty bed and she loves to sit in it with a couple Reader's Digests, just hanging out. Mugo's not too thrilled about this.


This past Saturday we spent the morning together at the zoo. Julie loves the monkeys!


In an attempt at being girlie, I finally got Julie some hair bows. I think this look is expressing Julie's concern for my hair decorating skills.

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