Julia's 15 month post!
Procrastinators of the world, unite!
Can you believe that Julia is 1 1/4 years old?? Neither can I! Time is flying like crazy.
- Julia likes to feed her milk, water, and play food to her baby doll, stuffed animals, finger puppets, book characters, etc. She loves sharing and she's very nurturing.
- She has taken a huge interest in letters. She can sing along decently well to the alphabet song and can spell her name aloud when asked, usually without prompting. We have foam letters and numbers in the bathtub that we enjoy practicing with her.
- Her ability to sing words to songs is increasing. She's especially good at knowing some of the words to the songs that her singing stuffed dog, Violet, performs.
- Julia is getting really good at coloring. We draw outlines for her in chalk or crayon, and she focuses her efforts on scribbling on what we've drawn. She can't stay in the lines, but she definitely centers around what she's trying to color in. She asks to color several times a day by making a scribbling motion with her hand and saying, "Write!"
- Our baby is still an outdoors lady. She runs to the door many, many, many, many, many times a day, saying, "Outside!" Actually, that's what she used to do. Lately, she says "outsideoutsideoutsideoutsideoutside..." very quickly and under her breath. It sounds like a crazy chant uttered by someone under house arrest driven mad by cabin fever. Once outside, she runs around, picking up leaves and rocks, digging in the dirt with her fingers, trying to eat said dirt, and chasing birds with great enthusiasm.
- I gave Julia her first real hair cut the other day. We put a towel around her and Aaron held her against him with her arms pinned down to her sides. I stabilized her head with one hand and cut her bangs with the other. I had fun making her look less wild. She hated it, but she probably enjoys not having hair in her eyes anymore. Well... she probably doesn't notice, but she does look cute!
- Julia has been really good in mass lately, all things considered. She's usually quiet when she should be quiet, and she sings beautifully whenever there is music. Sometimes, she pulls out a hymnal when there isn't music and points at the music and sings, but she isn't too loud. She does shout out for "crack" sometimes, which probably makes people raise their eyebrows at us (she's no crack baby, I promise... it's just her word for cracker ;-) ). She loves going to church to see "Jee Jee" (Jesus, not to be confused with "Gee Gee" = Grammie).
- Julia's vocabulary continues to amaze me. She knows so many words. I lost track of how many words she knows so long ago, but it'd be a really high number. She's a verbal one. She does a fair amount of hilarious babyese as well, reading books out loud and running around monologuing. She's funny.
- Julia loves wearing shoes and hats and even hair bows. When she was younger, she tried to rip any nonessential garb off as soon as it was put on her, but now she likes accessorizing. I'm having fun dolling her up by fixing her hair :-) We also bought her her very own baseball cap - TU, of course. And taught her to say, "Go TU!" Cutest golden hurricane ever.
- We have put Julia in the church nursery a few times on Friday evenings this Lent for the talk that follows the Lenten supper. The nursery workers are quite taken with her and they couldn't believe how well she played with other kids, especially considering many of them were quite a bit older than her. One of the volunteers asked me, "Is she around other kids all the time?" To which, the answer, of course, was no... pretty much never. She loves other kids so much, though. The other evening on the playground, she tried to play with some kids a few years older than her. She had this goofy grin on her face the whole time as she tried giving them pebbles. Puppy love.
- Speaking of love, we love Julia. A lot a lot a lot a lot.
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