The other day I watched as Julia fed one of her baby dolls from a baby spoon, and she said to the baby "Just try it. You might like it." (Something she's heard us say a million times, obviously!) I asked her what she was feeding her baby. "Vegetables." She said. : )
Well, Blogger isn't letting me upload photos, but I still want to blog, so I'm just going to include a link to the pictures on Shutterfly. Here are a few pictures from day to day life in early September 2006. Just snapshots taken around the house. Click Here. Andrew is continuing to get so big. People see him and think he's much older than he is. He grows out of his clothes practically before I've gotten the tags off. Julia is getting soooo accomplished in her language. Which reminds me to post a story about something she said the other day. Next post...
To the extent that anybody is looking at this blog regularly (and I know I have a few "fans" out there, thank you so much) I have been unable to upload photos since upgrading my blog to the new Blogger Beta. I was excited to upgrade because of the new feature that allows tags, or categorizations, and therefore more options for organizing, sorting, and grouping blog entries. But it turns out it was a huge mistake! I know Google is aware of the problem and trying to fix it. Meanwhile, I'll keep working on workarounds, and hopefully I'll be able to get something going. I'm addicted to blogging so this is a huge blow! Hopefully I'll have more pictures to share soon...
I've been enjoying spending more time with Julia while on maternity leave. I had originally thought I would keep her in daycare on her regular schedule while on leave. The thinking was that I'd need time to recover and get to know Andrew, and that Julia would be better off if her schedule remained relatively stable and unchanged during a time of transition. However, things haven't worked out that way, which has turned out to be a very good thing. To make a very long story short, we've decided to take Julia out of daycare and shift to a nanny strategy for her and Andrew when I return to work later this month. We'd already been gradually shortening Julia's days at daycare because she wasn't adjusting well to the new 2 year old room (for the past month I've been picking her up at noon everyday.) Now we're keeping her home entirely more often than not, as we prepare to transition to a nanny (whom we have yet to hire, yeiks.) But it's been great for me to discover that I can handle both of them, and that I'm enjoying it! It's been such a pleasure to spend more time with Julia and now I only wish I had more time. I'm due to return to the office at the end of the month. I had planned to upload a couple of pictures of Julia engaged in fun activities around the house, but I haven't been able to upload pictures since I switched over to the Blogger Beta. I am hoping they fix the problem soon, or that I learn what I'm doing wrong!
This isn't the most charming picture ever, but I just had to post it to show how much Andrew has grown! We usually put Andrew in the car seat, then perch that on the stroller. But Tucker had an "inappropriate elimination" in the carseat (again!! ughhhh!) so we decided to try strapping Andrew directly into the stroller. Well, it worked just fine, he's so darn big already! We walked the kids to the crepe place for an early dinner, then stopped by the park. A nice outing on a Saturday afternoon.
Susan made a spur of the moment trip up to see her grandchildren today. It was a quick trip -- in and out the same day -- but we made the most of it, with a trip to the park, some playing with baby dolls, lunch out, and some time in the backyard, where I caught this sweet moment between Julia and her Nana.
Tuesday afternoon we met some friends at the park. Gwendolyn and Julia are enjoying a playful hug in this picture. You can just see my friend Cristina and her baby Chloe on the right.
The annual Linfield Oaks neighborhood party was held this weekend, and we were amazed to find that we live in a neighborhood with so many young kids. The place was swarming with little ones, all of whom will be schoolmates of Julia's one day. Very nice! The party was a lot of fun, with jumping houses, arts & crafts tables, and a kid-oriented musician. 
We piled everybody into the Expedition and headed up to the SF Zoo, picking up Benne and Grandpa along the way. Julia had a wonderful time! Here are a few highlights of the animals we saw:
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