Happy 2011

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  It’s hard to believe the holidays have come and gone again!  I think I could have used another week off to recover.  
 
Congratulations to John and Jessica Daigle on the birth of their son, John Thomas.  He was born December 31, 2010.  A little early, but he seems to be a champ!
 
On Juliet’s birthday we took her to the Children’s Museum. That place is huge and a ton of fun.  They have something for kids as young as about a year.  Everywhere you turn there was something else interesting to do or look at or to learn about.  Juliet’s favorite was a vintage Mustang that the steering wheel turned round and round.  She cried when she had to get out.  We found out that she will wave when you sing Happy Birthday to Juliet, but only to Juliet, you can’t sing it to anyone else or she just looks at you.  Once she figures out it is to her she gets this big smile on her face and starts waving to you.  A little too late for her birthday candles this year, but she learned to blow out a candle at the Christmas Eve service.  
 
When we were playing before bed the other night she found a toy with shapes on it.  Without prompting from anyone she started pointing to the shapes and naming them, star, circle, square, triangle and heart.  She knows them all without any help.  It is so hard to keep track of all the new things she does.  She surprises us often with what she knows or does.  
 
On Saturday we celebrated Drew’s 2nd birthday.  He is such a cutie and got tons of fun gifts.  There was a bouncy house that was a huge success with the kiddos!
 
Daddy took Juliet to school Monday and it was a tough drop-off.  She has been with us a week and a half and was not excited about having to go to school.  When they turned at the light to the school she started crying “no school”.  I called to check on her and they told me she was a little whiny but doing ok.  I guess about the time she gets readjusted the weekend will be upon us.
 
To get ready for her doctors appointment, I opened her pretend doctor toy bag.  She had a ball checking her baby’s ears and mouth and listening to her heart and taking her blood pressure.  Then she moved on to mommy and daddy.  She is a little rough so we had to be prepared when she shoved things in our ears to look.
 
Poor baby had to have 2 shots at her dr appointment yesterday.  She saw the nurse get the needle ready down the hall and had a fit.  I blame daddy as he pulled her arm out of her shirt way too early!  (We love our dada and like to tease him.) She is 34 inches tall (50%), 28 pounds (~70%) and her head is 49 cm around (92%)!  Of course when we turned to go to school she tells us “no school”.  I am hoping that ends soon.

I love the way she will close herself out of the room we are in then stand on the other side and say, "knock knock mommy daddy," but will not knock. 
 
Today was a good drop off day so I say she is getting back in the swing of things.  

Love to all!
Laura