I want to go shopping

The house was suddenly very quiet so I decided to see what Juliana was up to. (you know they are up to no good when the house is quiet!) She had decided to go into my purse and find her gift card to Toysrus from Uncle Geoff and Aunt Heather from xmas. When I asked her what she was doing she started babbling as if to say "Why have we not gone shopping yet mommy?"

I can do it on my own

We tried banana a while back and Jules had zero interest in it. Last week she saw me eating one so I cut a piece off but that wasn't good enough...

We've had a couple beautiful days lately which are supposed to continue through the week. It has given us the opportunity to be outside and meet our new friends on the street. We are lucky enough to have a 15 month old little girl next door, a 2 year old little girl 2 houses down and another 2 year old little girl across the street! Here is Juliana playing in the sun yesterday, she liked to sit on the front porch and clap her hands in the sun. Must be like her mommy and love the sunshine! Daddy left today for 2 weeks so we are getting a refresher course on it being just the girls before he leaves for 2 months.

12 Month Doctor Visit

Well we certainly have our hands full with Miss Juliana :) She is as stubborn as her mommy and daddy COMBINED, those of you who know us well know what that means! She is currently still only 19 lbs which is 15%-25% in weight which is good, at least we aren't dropping weight as we try to move to big people food. She is 29" tall which is the 50% for height, that just means she is slowing down in how tall she is growing.

She still isn't sleeping well, partly due to night terrors and party due to the conditioned habit of waking from reflux. Her reflux is much better but we still are on medication. We tried to take her off the medicine but within 2 or 3 days she was puking again soooo.... the saga continues, but at least we don't puke as much! We are still struggling to get into a routine but hope that starting preschool soon will help with that. We are thankful to have found a great christian based preschool that has cameras in the room so parents can go online anytime and see their kid! That will definitely help put my mind at ease knowing I can check in on her anytime :) Jonathan leaves Monday for a few weeks and I am worried about how Juliana will react. She is very much a daddy's girl right now and is starting to realize when he is and isn't home.

As far as what she's into right now, she LOVES books and music. She dances to all sorts of music we play for her. I will have to take a video soon to share with you. I'm pretty sure she has the attention span of our dog since she doesn't play with anything longer than a few seconds before she's on to the next thing :) She has the energy of a squirrel or something, always bouncing from one thing to the next!

We are teaching her sign language and just found a class on post for baby sign language so we hope to get into the next class. I really want her to learn that so she can communicate with us better, plus it is supposed to help them in school in the future. Not to mention it's a good second language to know; I wish I knew it since I have worked with 2 deaf clients before so maybe I'll take a class too!

I guess that's it for now, I'm surprised she let me type this much!

Apple Turkey Loaf

So I tried my hand at making healthy food for Juliana. I went out and bought all the ingredients to make her Apple Turkey Sticks. I bought the leanest ground turkey I could find, organic applesauce, organic carrots, organic eggs, the whole shebang. I puree the carrots in my magic bullet and prepare this thing with love for Juliana. It looked gross but sounded good. I baked it like a meatloaf then tried to serve it to her. I also made her steamed zucchini (her fav!). I am thinking this is gonna be great! So we get it all put together for her and what does she do?

Ok, these diapers ROCK! Juliana usually gets so wet in the middle of the night that I have been having to change her while she sleeps! One night she got so wet that her diaper exploded like she had been in a swimming pool so at 5 something in the morning we were hosing her off in the sink. These new natural diapers are almost too good... she didn't feel as wet as in the others so we have changed a few 10 lbs diapers by accident. I'd rather that than another explosion!!!

Diapers To Try

Jonathan and I found natural diapers at the commissary (Walmart & Target too) for the same price as others like Pampers. They are called Natural Choice (although 7th Generation & Nature Baby makes some too). While I commend my friends who use cloth diapers, I would get too sick to my stomach to use them so I am now using these diapers in an effort to help our planet, so it is not trashed for Juliana when she is my age. If you think about the number of babies and kids using diapers it is astounding, so here is my 2 cents to help encourage others to at least try these diapers.