Eve's 1st Birthday Party

Hola, Daddy here. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Going to start off with some great pictures of Julia's favorite, NAKED TIME! In the interests of cleanliness, we keep her diaper on, lest she pee all over everything, but she's still pretty damn cute.







Today, Julia went to her first birthday party, for little Eve Nepo (daughter of Jennifer Brooks, who is Grandpa Dennis's grandniece and was in my class in high school) who turned one. Here's the happy family, followed by the birthday girl in her little hat:




Eve's aunt Tama with little Julesie in her pretty dress:



Finally, naptime for Julesie:

Jump up, jump up and get down!

As promised here are some pics of Julesie in her favorite toy -- her Jumperoo.

Here we go!


Lovin' it!


A close-up


A real close close-up


Is it all getting to be too much?


Oh, yes it is...





In school yesterday, one of the staff confirmed what we already knew -- that Julia is an active little bean. She predicts that Julia will start crawling by 7 months. Here are a few shots of her getting ready for school.

Do I really want to wear this awesome outfit from Aunt Tere & Uncle Tony?


Of course I do!


And then when I come home in a different outfit because I pooped on my morning one, Daddy loves me anyway!

Thursdays with Julia

Hi, everyone. Carrie here. I'll be sharing blogging duties with Dario, which we hope will provide you with more frequent updates.

For my first post, I thought I'd give you a glimpse into a day in the life of JRFZ. Mondays-Wednesdays she goes to daycare, aka. school. She's doing great. Her favorite activities include rolling over, chatting with staff and fending off the advances of Zachary who has been known to crawl over to J and pull her socks off.

On Thursdays, the routine changes since I'm home. We start out the day with Mommy & Me Yoga at Yoga for Everybody.

Here we have Julia all excited to start the day.



Because Little J is not one to remain still for very long, yoga can be quite a challenge.

We had just finished a few poses and the babies were supposed to be lying on their backs staring up lovingly at their moms. Julia, however, found it much more interesting to roll over and kick mommy in the head.

Here she is plotting:


And here she is kicking me in the noggin:


After that fun, we go to our playgroup, which is me and J, and four other Fairfielders and their tots. All babies under one. Yesterday was a small group: just us, mom Lauren and daughter Bridget, and mom Paula and son Benjamin.

Here is Bridget who liked to play with Julia's seatbelt.



And Bridget with Julia and Benjamin, who are resting comfortably in their buckets.



After playgroup, we run errands, go to the library, take a walk, wherever the day takes us. Yesterday, we headed to Balducci's to find some hamentaschen for Purim, my favorite holiday. Alas, they weren't up to snuff, but we didn't go home empty-handed. We bought a nice rotisserie chicken for dinner and some of the house marinara, which I highly recommend.

After that, it's back home, a quick turn in the jumperoo (look for pics on that soon) and down for the night.

Julia's Blog 2.0 and Fun with Sacha

Happy Sunday, everyone! First off, you can see that the blog has had a redesign, courtesy of Mommy's creativity! There's the addition of some friends on the left--check out their blogs if you are interested, as well as some of Julia's other favorite things. Let us know how you like Julia 2.0! We had a nice weekend--you can see Julia is feeling well, as are we, finally. Today we had brunch with our friends Brad, Tara, and little Sacha:



I also have some videos from today and the recent past I'm trying to put up, but not having much luck. Someone must know an easier way to do this, cause for me so far, working with videos is only slightly less fun than sticking myself in the eye with a pen. Help! Hopefully I'll have them up soon.

Here are some other nice photos from the weekend:

Nothin' special...

Just wanted to post some cute recent pics of Lil' J. Enjoy.

5 months old!

Hi, everyone! This was possibly the worst birthday ever (at least for me and my mom). Aunt Teri and Nana flew up to visit for a long weekend, but every single one of us got sick with the stomach bug that's going around, except for the tough little Julesie. Thursday: Carrie, Friday: Dar, Saturday: Nana & Teri. It was not pretty, and the ladies from Florida did not have the best trip ever! However, Julia is in one piece and here are some pictures in honor of her 5 month birthday!





Here's a great shot of Nana & Julesie. Unfortunately, we didn't get much in the way of pictures or video, since most of us looked like death warmed over all weekend. I hope everyone else stays well!