Leg Exercises

Julius has found several ways for working out his leg muscles, hope it will inspire you! :)

1. Dancing

(Who doesn't dance to the Charlie Brown music!?)

2. Jumping in the crib...probably not a good habit to start :)

3. Spinning around while trying to wrestle the pvc pipe from Browni

4. Walking!!!

(This video is one of his first attempts!)

It's Cold Outside!

Took Julius outside to play, Nick brought out his remote control car (from his childhood)...he was so excited it still worked!

Lots of frost in the shady spots!

We took the dogs on a walk at Clear Creek Park...we had cold fingers and noses by the end!

Browni loves to play fetch! We don't trust Sanford off his leash...poor guy!

Christmas

Santa left Julius some toys that we didn't have to take out of a box...although Julius really enjoyed ripping open all of his presents!

Mommy and Julius bought Daddy a new basketball for Christmas. Julius liked it a lot, which made Daddy very proud! :)

Daddy and Julius bought Mommy a new camera for Christmas...Mommy started practicing with it right away!

Julius did not enjoy his hat...Daddy held it on and we counted to 3 then he let go...so this is the adorable little look we got :)

Daddy taking a Christmas nap!

Great-grandma Linda sent Sanford, I mean Julius, this pillow and blanket...we have to watch Sanford because if it gets left on the floor he is sure to find it! Julius loves to share it with him too!

Playing with my camera!

Our Nutcracker display...we love putting these out every year!

Playing with his submarine from Uncle Jason and Auntie Erin...he loves to open the doors and shove stuff inside then close the doors!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday! Here's to the New Year that is fast approaching!

A year in the life of Julius

Zooming around the house!

Look Who's 1!

Julius turned 1 on December 14!

We celebrated by having lunch at Pizza Hut. Julius loves pizza and pretty much anything with tomato sauce...I must have eaten a lot of Italian when I was pregnant :)

Yummy! Pepperoni, thin and crispy crust please!

We also decorated our own party hats...

Julius enjoyed his cake! The dogs did too!

Opening presents was lots of fun, he did really good with tearing the paper...now we can't keep him from tearing open the Christmas presents :)

Some of the fun things Julius can do:

--Scoot on his bottom

--Crawl

--Wave bye-bye and hi and he says these two words in his own way :)

--Say what the monkey says: ah,ah

--Cruise everywhere in the house

--Eat dog food :)

--When we ask for a kiss he says "mmm" and gives you a kiss

Olmstead Christmas Tree Farm

To our great delight (or at least mine and Julius!), we went to a tree farm and cut down our very own tree!! It was really neat to walk through all of the trees and find one just right for us!

Nick got a little tired of my indecision!

But we did finally get a tree and Nick got to cut it down with a handsaw :) luckily the trunk was not too thick...of course Nick might beg to differ :)

Julius loves this little ornament, so it hangs on the bottom of the tree just for him to grab :) he lost interest in the decorating pretty quick! He went and played with his toys after about 3 minutes :)

Nick sporting his ugly Christmas sweater that I made for his work party...apparently I made it too matchy so people actually complimented him on it instead :)

We had a lot of fun decorating the tree and so far Julius has only broken 3 ornaments! Can't believe Christmas is less than a week away!!