What She Does Now

So here we have a bunch of random pictures and my ramblings. I will try to make it a cohesive post. This first picture is from my brothers' birthday shin-dig at the beginning of January. Dave would never let her drink a beer, but he thought the picture would be cool.

So, Julia is not yet crawling, but she loves to roll around. She can get up on all fours (meaning knees and hands,) but she would rather have her hands free to get those wonderful toys to her mouth. This is the reason she will roll instead of crawl. She does however get up on all fours and then push her butt backwards and then the feet come kicking backwards also, in a kind of reverse crawl maneuver, but this usually is not repeatedly done in an effort to move herself around.

(These two pictures are of her "honeycombs on steroids," and these pictures are especially for Vicki.)

The rolling is now front to back to front to back, etc. usually in crescent moon type patterns with her feet (generally) seeming to get more distance than her head from the starting point. She has been rolling from her back to her stomach for about a month or so now. She has been doing the stomach to back for quite a bit longer (maybe three months now). And I think she has always been able to roll from side to back to side since she was born. But the rolling gets her around quite well.

(These two are some of the everyday happenings. Above is Julia eating snow from the first time it snowed around here. I worked that day, so I have no pictures of us out in the snow, but we picked some up from out front when I got home so we could eat it. She thought it was cool. Below is the beautiful baby sleeping. She just loves her blanket from Grandma and sleeps with it every night.)

Oh, and a second tooth has come in about a week and a half ago. (I think it was Thursday or Friday the last week of January that I noticed it.) So now the two bottom front teeth are in! Yay! And she loves brushing her teeth (and gums) at night too. When I pull out the little finger brush she just opens her mouth wide and waits for me to put on the little dot of "tooth paste" and stick my finger in her mouth (with the finger brush on it). I'll have to take a picture of that one day.

And lastly, here's a cool shot of her in our "bar" sink. She likes to do Peek-a-boo from the sink. (I just crouch down in front of the cabinet and pop back up. She cracks up.) We just can't keep her there too long or she'll reach for the faucet and I'm just certain that she will give herself a shower this way one day.

That's it for now. I'll try to post some more pictures this week.