Julia is sure of what she likes. At the moment she LIKES these shoes. She has been pulling them out and wearing them with whatever outfit she is wearing. There are times Mama would pick different shoes because black shoes don’t really go with everything, but sometimes not all battles have to be won.

Mama loves this movie. So of course we had to go and see it as a family (missing the first several scary minutes). The girls enjoyed it, but had trouble sitting to watch it. Luckily there were just eight other people in the theater.

We went to listen to Ms. Caryn read another story. We were running late, enough late that we missed the story. Our lovely friend had a second reading for us! There were other kids in the store that enjoyed the book another time. Emily has been missing out on time with Elena so we invited them to meet us at storytime. After the story there was plenty of little girls wandering and reading books in the store.

Little Thea was so sweet to hang with Ms. Rachelle for quite a while!

Julia decided to take care of fixing a few things around the house. After a lot of repairs she decide the tools were dusty and took the flower to them for a good cleaning. Kids are the best at making good jokes without meaning to – she told me that Dusty was very dusty and needed to be cleaned. I loved that one!

Julia has been riding or walking on nice mornings with her Mama. I loved this sweet face looking back at me. She likes to walk to the bridge where we look for fish in the water. Sometimes we are lucky and see them. Then if we have time we walk down to the "house". It is the judges box for rowing competitions. This is about as far as she can go on her own and still walk all the way back out. Some of the games we play are singing songs and playing shadow chasing games.

Happy Birthday to our baby! I guess she isn’t our baby anymore. You are a delight to us. We love your smiles and silly grins. You tell us funny stories, make up fun names for your friends, still make your wonderful excited face, and love playing with your sister. Hearing your voice this year has been wonderful. We love you!