Happy Fall!!

The last few months have been pretty busy! I started working at Uptown Cheapskate a resale store for the younger people. I work two days a week and really enjoy working there. It is great to get out of the house and take my mind of things; and it definitely isn't as challenging as my other job :) For Halloween we went to Olive Garden and we left Jules giraffe costume on while we ate, and of course she gagged and threw up on her costume, so we quickly changed her. Fortunately we took some pics before going out. Love that smile!

Julianne is 20months old and (stats for grandmas) ~33in tall and weighs ~24lbs. She is small but mighty and turning into a little toddler with quite a personality! 

She is talking more and more and starting to put words together and sometimes sentences. She likes to point and name things, toes, eyes, ears, nose, etc etc..She tells us she lubs (love) us, most nights before bedtime, which melts our hearts. We say our night time prayers and she lists all the family members and pets by name. Its funny how the night time routine gets longer, now that she can talk and make requests. Lately she has been asking for water, so we get her a sippy with a small amount of water in it, she takes a few sips and then drops it in her bed. Then sometimes I hold her for a bit before putting her in bed and she will say chair, because she wants me to sit down and hold her. Sometimes she will say mommy and then my name. The other day Judy watched her and she said bye Jamie!! it was so funny I had to laugh!

She is also becoming such a little mommy, she takes care of all her babies, feeding them their bottle, giving them their paci's, swaying them and singing to them and sometime making the shushing sounds to get them to sleep. I think she gets this from Jack the little boy I watch 2 days week. And now that Jack can hold his own bottle she tries to hold the bottle for him and takes it out and then puts it back in his mouth and he just watches her and waits to get his bottle back.

I thought I would wait to put her in her toddler bed but I'm going to go ahead and transition her soon. She sleeps in a toddler bed at my in laws house, so she understands she must stay in bed, with an occasional reminder "GET BACK IN BED" . But I'm hoping it will be better for when we go visit my parents she can sleep on the floor or on an air mattress. (fingers crossed) But its just another reminder of how big our baby girl is getting :(

We are excited about the upcoming holidays and Christmas now that she plays with toys and gets excited about presents. We took her to toys r us to get an idea of what she might like and she loved loved the baby dolls and all the accessories!! This year we are spending Thanksgiving here at Shad Point (my in laws house) and Christmas in KC!! We are excited to come home and see my family and friends and congratulate my sister and bro n law for their Newest arrival in April !! We are so happy for them and can't wait to find out what they are having. They know what they are having because she's a nurse in the L&D unit and peaked already!! We have much to be thankful for and feel truly blessed! I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!