Summer 2011- picture over load

Fall is finally coming and I couldn't be more excited! I LOVE Fall. I love it better in California because it last longer than here in Utah! Now that Summer is come and gone, I thought I should do a re-cap. Like I mentioned in my last post, my computer often has issues with loading pictures, but today it was working, so I decided to not stop until I got all the pics up that I wanted or the computer stopped working. Therefore we are in picture over load. This post is already really long so I will keep the descriptions short!

The first pic was when we went to the zoo with friends! I was so excited for Julian to go to the zoo and see the animals. I thought for sure he would love it. Turns out Julian was terrified of everything!! All except we got to the playground and they had these egg like things for Julian to climb in. This is pretty much the only picture I have of that day because he would not get close to anything!! Oh well

The next couple are of Julians 1st birthday. The theme was trucks! He has a shirt with trucks on it and wore overalls. We have friends, family for a BBQ and I made the cake!! I was so proud of myself. It was the first cake I have made like this! As you can see from Julians face he enjoyed it as well!

The picture with Julian with only his diaper on, was taken because Julian had taken my sandal, and spent a good five minutes trying to figure out how to put his foot in it like I do. When he finally did it he was so excited and scooted around the house showing off the shoe! I had to take a picture!

Uncle Shaun will leave for his mission this month, and this could be the last picture taken for two years!! Julian had fun with Uncle shaun, and just next month he will meet Uncle Spencer who comes home from his mission!!

The next several pictures are from our trip to California for my mothers 50th birthday! On the day I was packing to leave Julian decided he wanted to travel in the luggage! LOL I think Julians favorite part was playing with the cousins. Julian is so use to be the kid that chases others and gets a little rough, but he had a blast being chased my cousin Kaliea and Luke! This picture was of Luke and Julian saying good-bye!

While in California, we had to go on the lake!! Julian had so much fun, I knew he liked water, and swimming, but I wasn't sure how he would do with the boat and more importantly the life jacket!! He fought the life jacket at first but when I put him in the water and he realized that it let him float on his back, he was in love. On the boat he was laughing and yelling "Weee-Weee" When my dad would go fast! His hair had just has much fun if you cant tell from the pictures. My mom had him sit in the driver seat and he got a kick out of that! The food at the lake it always good! Chicken with nanna!!

Like a mentioned earlier, we went for my moms 50th birthday! We had a huge party with all kinds of friends and family! Julian made a big mess of the birthday cake! Julian also got to hang out with his second cousins!!

The last two pictures are from our ward camp-out! Julians first time camping and he had fun, besides the fact that he kept wanting to run into the fire!! The last picture he had taken his water and dumped in on his head!!

Well that's all for now! Hope everyone enjoyed their summer!!

One Year Ceck-UP

I have so many pictures to post, but for some reason, my computer struggles to load them to my blog, I have no problem with Facebook, but cant seem to get them on here. So I apologize for the lack of pictures. Julian had his one year check up this past week. It went well, we discovered that Julian has eczema, which is why you find all these lighter patches on his body (especially his face)luckily the doctor said that with some medicine cream the body will often correct it at this age! As for the regular charts he now weighs 21 pounds which is the 10th percentile and is almost 31 inches long (about the 51st percentile, and his poor little head isn't even on the charts, in fact it hardly grew at all it was the .01 percentile. We talked about that with the doctor, and he said at this point there is no concern as long as he doesn't go down in the charts then it is ok if he is small. And with all the "talking" Julian was doing in the doctors room, he said it doesn't seem to be effecting him. He watched in amazement as Julian lifted a toy as big as he is with one hand and carried it across the room like it was a rag doll. When the doctor left, Jamie weighed the toy to see how much he was holding and the toy came in at exactly 3 lbs.

Anyone who has a baby knows that when you to these "well baby" check-ups they usually have you fill out a survey answering yes, sometime, or no, to questions about development. The questions are focused on what is "normal" for that stage of development for the child's age. So anyway I was sitting there and filling out the form laughing to myself because the question they were asking were things Julian was doing at 6-8 months of age. Like... Holding on to furniture when bending down to grab a toy, and standing unaided. Julian started standing unaided by 6 months and was bending down to grab toys by himself when he was 9 months old. The doctor was so impressed with how advanced Julian was that he said it was pointless to come back for his 15 month check up since he is already past the stage and just make an appointment for 18 months! So needless to say Julian is cruising right along

I am going home in a little over a week for my mom's 50 birthday, so I am excited for family to see Julian, Unfortunately Jamie has to work and once again can't come, so we are sad about that. I am really worried about traveling with Julian this time. Last time he was 2 months and it was a breeze, but Julian doesn't sit still anymore, and this could be a challenge. I think he will do fine for most of the plane ride, but I am more nervous about the lay over in Vegas!! I think I might get one of those leashes they have for kids, I know that sounds bad, but I can't risk it. Vegas is a small airport but crowded and because it's Vegas, often a lot of wierd, or drunk people are around (or both for that matter). In fact every time I have a creepy situation with flying it was when flying into or out of Vegas. Julian is a fast little critter, and I just cant risk him running off, so I will have to resort to more drastic matters.

Well I guess that is all for now, I will keep trying to load pictures up hope all is well with everyone!!

Wow I have really gotten behind in my blogging, and I really don't have a good excuse! The last month and half has been a fun and exciting time!

June 21, my sister, Stacy, and her third child, a boy named Shane! It was exciting because they didn't know what they were having, nor did they have a name picked out until he he was almost through his first day of life!! He is very cute and I am excited to have another nephew!

I am now going to show a few pictures to show what a loveable but crazy child I have!! Julian gets into everything, and I know people say that's what kids do, and especially how boys are, but I swear Julian is on a whole other level! Just to give you a taste, yesterday in the matter of about 30 min julian.... pulled out every CD (about 40) out of the basket, unloaded the Tupperware drawer, pulled all the toys out of the toy box, and then pulled out all 50 of his diapers and threw every single one along with a few toys in the Pack N' Play!! And I am pretty sure there were a few other things, I just cant think of them right now. Needless to say I never get anything done with Julian. But he does make me laugh. He loves to explore and go out side, and has the best facial expressions. His idea of dancing is moving your feet really fast, and swaying your arms back and forth. Since it has been summer, he has gotten quite a bit darker, except for his face, which I am pretty sure is only a shy darker then when he was born. He loves the bathroom, especially the plunger, so that room is kept closed at all times. anyway here are a few random pics...




JUlian loves to take the stuff out of this cupboard and then crawl inside, the only problem is he hasn't figured out how to get back out!



Just a cute picture of Julian in a bubble bath.




One thing Julian does that kinda drives me nuts is he hangs on me when I am trying to cook dinner. So one particular night I was mixing some flour in a bowl, with Julian grabbing my legs. As I try to move I trip over Julian and dump the bowl of flour right on Julian, who happened to be looking up at me at the same time, by the time I got the camera ready, he had rubbed most of it off, but it was funny still!

I have birthday stuff and more to share, but that will have to wait for now!!

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter Weekend. My sister in law, Ronna, flew into town for a quick trip and brought her son Xanyae. Xanyae was born in December of 2009 just a little over 6 months before Julian. The cousins have never met, so it was really exciting to have them spend Saturday night and Easter morning with us. Xanyae wasn't use to having a baby around since he is the youngest of three in their family, so Julian kinda scared him. Unfortunately I didn't get too many pics of them together, but we all couldn't believe how much they looked alike! It was great to chat and spend time with family. Jamie and I miss having family around. Julian got an Easter basket from Nanna which he loved (despite what the picture my elude to). Then we had our dinner up in Alpine. The Colvin family is so kind to include us with their family. Overall it was a great time to remember the savior and his atonement and resurrection. And no better way to celebrate that he lives, then with family and friends.





Julian



Xanyae

More Julian

Here are some more recent pics of bubba!



Cool Dude!




Decided to let Julian feed himself!



First trip to the park! He loved the swing!


I can explain! Jamie thought when Julian just wore jeans he looked like the guy from Twilight that turns into the wolf (sorry I don't know the series well) so he thought all that was missing was the Abs! This is Jamies attempt to give Julian Abs!