Cousin Time

This last weekend (March 27 - 29), Julia and I took a trip to Tomah,
Wisconsin, to spend time with my parents (Jeff and Sue) and Julia's
cousins (my sister's daughters, Laila and Hannah). Julia had an
extraordinarily fun time playing with her cousins... if you watch them
play together, you would really know and believe that they were born
to play together... they are definitely family!

Julia enjoyed watching the girls cut out cookies with Grammy (my mom,
Sue) and Julia enjoyed cookies with her cousins on the living room
floor (sorry for all of the vacuuming you had to do, mom!).

Julia also enjoyed her cousin putting shoes on her... again, she LOVES shoes!

And, Julia especially enjoyed the table and chairs that were in the
dining room and tipped over in the chair approximately 500 times that
weekend... and even though she cried every time, it did not deter her
from getting back up and into the chair... one... more... time.

This weekend was also the turning point in Julia's walking... since
early January, Julia has been walking... a few steps here and there,
and basically it was about two to four steps a day for a while.
Recently she became more confident in her walking ability, but even
still, she preferred crawling and would crawl to something, pull
herself up, walk a few steps, fall down, and keep on crawling. So...
she was walking, but preferred to crawl.

Well, over the weekend, she turned that corner and now prefers to
walk... we can set her down in a standing position in the middle of
the floor, and she will walk until she falls. And... even then, she
may try to get rigt back up again. Crying is not really involved
anymore. It has been really neat this last week to see her walking
around... we have witnessed her walking the length of full rooms
now... something that even a week and a half ago would not have
happened. She is suddenly very confident in her walking abilities,
has been walking at daycare as well, and I'm sure will be running
circles around us come summer.

We had a great visit with the family even though it was very short.
Here's hoping we can get back to Wisconsin in June when my sister
flies home from Georgia so that we have time to visit her and her
girls both.

erin

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