Julia is officially a toddler, she moved from the infant room to the toddler room at daycare and is loving every minute of it. It was a lot harder on me and John than it was on her, we weren't ready to admit that we had a 'big girl' rather than a tiny infant. The first day she was a little bit apprehensive in her new room, the second day she was very serious when I put her down in the room, scanned the room, then looked up at me and loudly said "Bye-Bye", basically telling me 'ok mom leave, I'm ready to have fun'.
We had a conference with her infant room teacher who gave us a beautiful book with lots of pictures of Julia taken over the last year and of course I cried the entire time I was flipping through the book. In the book she listed Julia's Special Strengths:
-Excellent sign language skills- her words are ready to spill out
-Very, very easy going
-always eager to try new activities, makes more than one attempt to solve a problem
-very caring and sweet
-music is a special activity-very interactive
-Julia is a happy, fun loving little girl who is ready to take on the toddler experience.
Here's a collection of photos from the last few weeks....
Play dress up
ready for a run?
where is Julia?
Helping Organize
Fun in the Sun
Last weekend we went to Maine, but instead of beautiful beach weather it was cold and rainy. The weather didn't stop us from enjoying the beach, the first day we brought Julia to play in the sand and let her dip her feet in the ocean. The next day we went back to play in the sand and Julia walked right into the ocean, fully clothed in jeans and a sweatshirt. She fell over in the waves, was soaking wet from head to foot and loved every minute of it. On the entire beach there were only 2 people in the ocean, Julia and our dog Pearl.
The following weekend we were with the Crooker/MacGregor family on Crystal Lake in NH for a family picnic, we had beautiful 90 degree weather and Julia finally got to go swimming for real. 
