Happy Halloween

Trick or Treat... watch out in addition to witches and ghosts I hear the bees are out, don't get stung! This bee costume has basically become a Rybolt family heirloom, Julia is the 4th cousin to wear the bee costume (following in the foot steps of Baikal, Madeleine, and Ella)

This was taken on the steps at Lisa's house at her Halloween party, can you find Ella trying to get in the picture?

Julia and a Blanket

Julia now officially has 2 teeth, pulls to stand all the time, cruises on furniture (though she forgets that she can't stand on her own will let go and tumble over), waved bye-bye, loves finger foods (wheat toast is her favorite) and a few days ago started a real crawl. She still is very slow at regular crawling, she basically does a few steps forward very slowly then remembers she is much faster at her army crawl and drops to her belly and pulls herself with her arms.



Recently Julia had her 9 month doctors appointment and realized she has spent the last 3 months on a big growth spurt. She officially weighs 20 pounds (75th percentile) and is 28 1/2 inches tall (75 percentile). She jumped from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile in 3 months, now we finally understand why she has been eating like a monster.

Fall is Here

Fall is officially here in New England, with fall comes pumpkins, fairs, and trying to keep track of hats, mittens and jackets. This weekend we went to the Center Sandwich Fair in New Hampshire with Julia's great-grandmother. She had a great time at the fair and meeting lots of relatives.

Everyone enjoying good food at the fair. When Lisa held Julia up on the table, Ella kept getting mad saying "No baby Julia, no standing on the table"

Julia sporting her Red Sox shirt with her great-grandmother (a diehard Red Sox fan!)

After we recovered from all the delicious food and good company at the fair, Julia and I went on a hayride with some other moms. We all loaded onto the hayride at the farm, the first stop was to pick turnips, we then loaded back up on the hayride to travel to the cows where the kids got to feed the turnips to the cows and goats, then we were off to the pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins, and our final stop was at the sugarhouse for cookies and apple cider. Julia didn't really understand what was going on, but she loved watching the other kids and was very excited by the cows.