oh mannn

So i watched Lauralie this afternoon while Tabatha went to a appointment, to repay her for watching Juju for my appointment this morning. I was checking my email at the kitchen table and juju was eating a snack. when i looked down he was tring to give Lauralie a teddy gram! lmao, and there were already 3 on her blanket and around her neck when I realized what he was doing. i hurried and grabbed my camera to catch it! He is such a sweet boy! he just wanted to share his snacks with his friend. I am so amazed with how gentle he is with her, and how calm he is when she is around him. It's like he knows she is a babyyy.
Julian is sooo good with Lauralie- he will be a great big brother someday! :)

This is exactly what I saw when I first looked down.. hahahaa

..hes so sweet.

oh my Julian.

Oh how our days have been sooo busy. Seems like the days are running into each other. It's so bitter sweet! We are all so ready to be in Louisiana again and have this move out the way, but very sad that with each passing day it brings us a day closer to having Joshua "Da-EE" gone for 8 whole, entire, long months.
Packing, studing and cleaning has been consuming most of our days. Yesterday I was packing and organizing my scrapbooking stuff and Julian got ahold to one of my ribbons. He has such a creative mind- and is so easily pleased. He played with the ribbon for what seemed like hours and stayed out of my feet so I could get stuff done.
Here's a few pictures I got of him keeping busy.







Last night was such a good night! Julian since about 10 or 11 months has been sleeping through out the night. He normally hears Josh when hes getting ready for work ( daddy tries to be quiet, but .. isn't so great at it..haha lOVE YOU JOSH! ) so he usually wants a cup at 5 after hearing Josh and waking up. So when I say sleeping through the night, I mean, sleeping til about 5:30- 6 and he wakes up.. I give him a half a cup or milk and hes goes back to sleep til 7- sometimes 7:30-8!!
Well, since Josh left for this underway, the first few mornings he woke up I let him cry for his cuo for a few minutes and realized he would put himself back to sleep with out it. Today was day one that he did not wake at all! he slept straight through from 7 last night til 8:15 this morning! IT WAS AMAZING! I was over joyed when I looked at the clock when I heard him yell " MOM"! haha.

I been wrapping up this semester, so being we had a busy day out in town, first thing I did today was check my emails from my teachers and knocked out, what I hope to be my last assignment. Julian was very quiet, so I went investigate to see what he was up to...
and found my sweet little brainic sitting in the living room reading a book peacefully, minding his own business! hahaha..



^ as you can see.. of course it was a Barney book! I tell you, I was Barney lover as a kid, but dont think I was as INLOVE as Julian is! He calls for "ba-neyy" there is no "R". I want to pay someone to come visit in him a Barney costume.. I really think Julian would love it.

After our busy, but very fun day in town we got home & I begun to pickup around the house and get him ready to start calming down for the night. HA.. he was not having it. Tabatha made me a build a bear for xmas, and I had put some things from in the car in the box to carry back upstairs. after empting it, he pulled it off the kitchen table and of course the first thing he did with it was put it on his head. LMAO.. it was so funny. he would look through this one window to navigate around the living room, but did bump a few walls in the process.. hahahaha. I dont know how many people can say they say a BUILD A BEAR BOX WITH LEGG? But I sure can! :) lol

Julian is starting to look JUST like his daddy, & def. got the humor danford trait as well! man, I dont know how I'll ever love our second child, and third(if there is a third) as much as i love him! he is my entire world!!

little lefty

today seemed to be such a long day- Cold & rainy out side & mommy was swamped with last minute school work to tend to.
I have been paying close attention to which hand Julian uses the most, because I have started to REALLY focus on getting him to use his forks and spoons & I unsure of which hand to have him hold them with. I noticed a while back he used his left the most, and the last few days def. confirmed that Julian indeed takes after both his Maw maw's- He is a lefty!!!

I laughed as i gave Julian his bath tonight... Josh usually is the one who does "bath" but since he's gone obivously its mine. the last few nights Julian lines his bath toys up just like this, but not always in the same order. Tonight he only kept the ones he was playing with in the water.. LMAO. i was like.. okay excuseeeee me! Poor thing, hope this isn't OCD like me! lol

hes too funny! :P

ALMOST lazy day

Today was just one of those.... cloudy, cold, wet and rainy type of days. I wanted so badly to do nothing, sit around.. in my PJ's , watching falalala lifetime! :) but that of course didnt happen.
Josh called early to tell me he made 2nd class! & that got me all fired up!.. got dusting done, cleaned the bathroom, mopped, seperate laundry! it was overall pretty productive. I also been wanting to snap a few pictures of Julian by the christmas tree like i did last year! .. I thought they came out prettty good..he has such a darling smile! :) check them out.

isnt he precious!? :)

beautifuL breezy Sunday! :)

Today was such a beautiful day! In the low 60's with a breeze, but not too chilly thanks to the sunshine! :)
We attended church then had lunch at Burger King. I wish i knew i was going to be so prett outside, i would have packed us a lunch to have at mount trashmore! But we went there after lunch to let Julian run wild and free! He enjoyed himself so much & so did Josh and myself! :)
here are a few pictures from our time spent at the park.


Julian & Mommy.


again.. :) i love this one.


he was going as fast as he could to get to his daaa-EEee!


haha, and hugged his leggs when he finally got to him.



Walking hand in hand down the hill...

Julian took a few tumbles tring to come down but for the most part had good balance!! OHH & Julian say's THREE!!

if we count 1, 2, & then _________ he will say THREE!.. my kid is so dang smart! :)