My Pig-Tailed PrincessThe blog spotlight has certainly been on Liam for the last few posts, but my little drama queen sure still steals (demands) the spotlight at home. 
At age 3, Julia is becoming wonderfully self-sufficient...not only does she insist on doing most things by herself, but she's now actually capable of doing them unassisted! Just this morning I came back from a run at 6:30am to find Julia happily awake, fully dressed and ready for school with her little sheet set for naptime and an extra set of clothes. She had already helped herself to a banana from the fruit bowl and didn't mind entertaining herself while I showered before fixing her breakfast. Of course not every morning goes so brilliantly, but it's nice to brag whenever it does happen!
In many ways Julia is a girly girl. She loves all things pink, carries her baby dolls everywhere and loves playing dress-up.
One of her favorite games right now is to play mommy to Liam, especially putting him to bed (amazingly, he loves this game too...maybe I should let her have a go at putting him down for the night cause whatever we're doing isn't working!). She tucks him in, "reads" him a book, and even sings songs to him. Her other favorite game is hide-n-seek, though her version of it is actually count-n-find-me-where-I-told-you-I-was-gonna-hide. She is very interested in cooking, and she's actually becoming very helpful in the kitchen, helping to stir or sift or measure out ingredients. She told me that breaking the eggs is the best part of cooking, so making a quiche (with 5 eggs) was a huge hit the other night.
For all the girliness, though, Julia sure can keep up with the boys (even the big boys) when it comes to running and climbing and jumping. She races up play structures and climbs rope ladders with such speed and confidence (but fortunately has a healthy notion of danger too, unlike her little brother). She's already telling everyone excitedly about starting gymnastics again (in January).
I think my favorite of her interests is singing. She loves music of all kinds and has a really good memory for song lyrics (can't get her to do memory picture games at all and I've experimented with telling her grocery items to remember, but it seems to only apply to music). It keeps us really amused too because her song repertoire is really diverse. My iPod has a lot of children's music that we listen to often, but Julia also likes for me to just scroll through a couple of seconds of each song in the playlist (from Van Morrison to Counting Crows, Metallica to Bach) until she decides what she's in the mood for (Keb Mo singing "Better Man" is a current favorite). 
Matt has a very limited repertoire, but it ranges from "The Purple-People Eater" to the Dirty Dancing classic, "I've Had the Time of My Life" and even an Australian jingle from the 80's for the shampoo Decore (which Julia just calls "The Shampoo Song"). And Julia has learned at least the chorus to pretty much all of them. Since that seems to be the best medium to get her to listen, we sing A LOT around our house. Now when she gets annoyed with Liam invading her space, we all sing Sting and the Police "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
At age 3, Julia is becoming wonderfully self-sufficient...not only does she insist on doing most things by herself, but she's now actually capable of doing them unassisted! Just this morning I came back from a run at 6:30am to find Julia happily awake, fully dressed and ready for school with her little sheet set for naptime and an extra set of clothes. She had already helped herself to a banana from the fruit bowl and didn't mind entertaining herself while I showered before fixing her breakfast. Of course not every morning goes so brilliantly, but it's nice to brag whenever it does happen!In many ways Julia is a girly girl. She loves all things pink, carries her baby dolls everywhere and loves playing dress-up.
One of her favorite games right now is to play mommy to Liam, especially putting him to bed (amazingly, he loves this game too...maybe I should let her have a go at putting him down for the night cause whatever we're doing isn't working!). She tucks him in, "reads" him a book, and even sings songs to him. Her other favorite game is hide-n-seek, though her version of it is actually count-n-find-me-where-I-told-you-I-was-gonna-hide. She is very interested in cooking, and she's actually becoming very helpful in the kitchen, helping to stir or sift or measure out ingredients. She told me that breaking the eggs is the best part of cooking, so making a quiche (with 5 eggs) was a huge hit the other night.
For all the girliness, though, Julia sure can keep up with the boys (even the big boys) when it comes to running and climbing and jumping. She races up play structures and climbs rope ladders with such speed and confidence (but fortunately has a healthy notion of danger too, unlike her little brother). She's already telling everyone excitedly about starting gymnastics again (in January).
I think my favorite of her interests is singing. She loves music of all kinds and has a really good memory for song lyrics (can't get her to do memory picture games at all and I've experimented with telling her grocery items to remember, but it seems to only apply to music). It keeps us really amused too because her song repertoire is really diverse. My iPod has a lot of children's music that we listen to often, but Julia also likes for me to just scroll through a couple of seconds of each song in the playlist (from Van Morrison to Counting Crows, Metallica to Bach) until she decides what she's in the mood for (Keb Mo singing "Better Man" is a current favorite). 
Matt has a very limited repertoire, but it ranges from "The Purple-People Eater" to the Dirty Dancing classic, "I've Had the Time of My Life" and even an Australian jingle from the 80's for the shampoo Decore (which Julia just calls "The Shampoo Song"). And Julia has learned at least the chorus to pretty much all of them. Since that seems to be the best medium to get her to listen, we sing A LOT around our house. Now when she gets annoyed with Liam invading her space, we all sing Sting and the Police "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
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