Thursday, December 31, 2009

Julianna's 1st Christmas


Roses, Sarah, Papa Ken and Julianna

Papa Paul's Great Grand kids

Papa Do and our sweet little Elf

Gramma Jo reading to Julianna, what a smile

Julianna had a wonderful first Christmas. We got to celebrate before Christmas with Papa Ken, Roses, Unky B and Unky M. We had a big Christmas dinner at our house on the 22nd and I successfully made another yummy big dinner for the family (pancetta wrapped stuffed pork roast, gorganzola stuffed mushrooms, three cheese risotto and sauteed green beans). I get so nervous making big meals for our families since I have such amazing cooks for a mom and mother in law but so far so good :) Julianna enjoyed opening gifts with my side of the family and some how slept through our loud and crazy night catching up with the bros.

We had to wake up at 4am on Christmas Eve to catch our flight to Detroit. Julianna was such a trooper and had a great flight. We were greeted in Detroit with a tiny bit of snow left from a previous snow fall while it was a blizzard in Texas. We took Julianna out to touch the snow and she didn't quite know what to think of it. We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner at Papa Paul's house with ALL the family. It's so much fun to be around everyone, especially watching all the little ones play and put on "performances" for the family. Soon Julianna will be up there with them. Julianna also got to see Santa for the first time. She wasn't quite sure the first time we put her on his lap, I don't think I would be either with 20 people calling my name trying to get me to look at the camera :) After all the kiddos got their gifts, we tried again and got a better picture. Julianna had been up since 4 am and was up until midnight with only short naps that day and she was so good. We couldn't go to bed until Gramma Jo read Twas the Night Before Christmas.
We woke up Christmas day and helped Julianna open gifts. She loved the ribbon and paper more than the gifts :) Christmas dinner was at Papa Do's house and it was oh so yummy! We enjoyed spending time with Nonna, Cindy, Chris, Steven, Anthony and Linda. It was really special hanging out with Uncle Joey, Aunt Katherine, and Hannah, we can't wait for Baby Y to arrive this summer. And of course we spent way to much time eating! The diet will begin Jan 1!!! Our flight was canceled on Sunday so we got to stay an extra day and even got a date night out of it, thanks Gramma Jo!
We are back in Texas and celebrating Julianna being 6 months old and New Years Eve at home. I'll update you with her new 6 month stats next week when we go to her check up.

Happy New Year to all! We love you!
More pictures on the albums on the right


Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christmas Pictures

We are looking forward to Papa Ken and Roses getting here tomorrow and celebrating an early Christmas with them and Julianna's two favorite uncles Blake & Max. We are headed to Michigan on Thursday for a couple of days and hopefully Julianna's first Christmas will be a white Christmas :) Maybe we will get snowed in so we can stay a couple extra days!!

Our sweet and talented friend Mallory did a great job with Julianna Christmas pictures






Thursday, December 10, 2009

5 Months

I'm a week late but happy 5 months Julianna! Julianna is more fun than ever! She is laughing, smiling, playing with toys, and scooting around. Accomplishments this past month are eating cereal, sitting up with little assistance, sleeps from 7pm-5:30ish then 6-9ish, her first tooth just started to show, she likes putting everything in her mouth and now loves banging her toys on whatever she can find.

We were blessed to have Aldo's family and my brothers here for her first Thanksgiving at our house. It was my first time cooking such a big meal and I didn't burn the turkey :)



We have found a lot of things to keep us girls busy while daddy is working, we go on play dates, go to Cry Baby Matinees, and whatever my craft projects are for the month. Julianna may have a bow for every outfit she has.

We are looking forward to Roses and Papa Ken coming to our house to spend time with us right before Christmas and looking forward to going back to Michigan to see all the family and MEET SANTA on Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas everyone! We love you!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Oh how fun it is to try cereal

We tried cereal last week with no success, she just spit it out. We got some advice from a friend who told us to have Julianna eat dinner with us so she could watch us eat and a week later we have a cereal eating machine :) I think she would have eaten the whole box if we would have let her. She made quite the mess but was so cute doing it!
Love to you all!
-I loaded more pictures of our adventure on the web albums on the right
-Grandma bib pictures are from our first try

Monday, November 9, 2009

Finally caught her laughing on video




Mommy acting silly gets her laughing!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Happy Halloween and 4 Months Baby J


Julianna went in for her 4 month check up today and oh boy we have a big baby!! She weighed 15 lbs 4 oz (90 percentile) and is 25 ½ inches long (97 percentile). Let’s just say she doesn’t miss a meal. The doctor was really happy with all her progress and told us we can start cereal and she is ok to start sleeping on her tummy (thank God- longer naps here we come). We look forward to all her new developments and love watching her grow!

We have been on several big adventures this month. We took our first flight with Julianna to Michigan to meet the family. She was amazing on the plane, I was really worried. She really enjoyed hanging out with the family and meeting so many family members who love her so much. Thank you to everyone who brought her adorable outfits! Julianna had to have 4 outfit changes on Halloween just to show off all her Halloween outfits. We are really looking forward to Grandma Jo, Papa Do and Auntie Ang coming to Texas for Thanksgiving, Papa Ken and Roses coming to see us before for Christmas and flying back to Michigan for Christmas.




Here is a picture of Angela showing us how much Julianna looks like Aldo. There is no denying it, she is Aldo’s daughter! Julianna has her dad’s Mr. Magoo face!








Julianna has been making lots of new friends. It’s tough keeping up with her social calendar! We go on several play dates a week where she has made lots of new friends. This is a picture of her holding Kaelyn Hudson’s hand at a play date.










This is a picture with Sadie Zipser at a dinner at our house. Sadie and Julianna went and saw their first movie in the theater this week and both girls were great!









I added all the pictures from our trip on an album to the right :)

Love to you all!!