Dudes, I completely forgot to post about this in the crazy no-sleeping-ness that was Amos’s week in Seattle (hence the drought on my blog, here – I was too tired to type or, honestly, find my kids amusing). Julia is growing SO quickly and has reached a couple of major milestones!! She can sit up unassisted, though a bit wobbly, for a while and she has mastered a scootery pre-crawl. Let me tell you, that kid MOVES when she wants something. I love it; when I’m trying to cook dinner without killing anyone in our teeny tiny kitchen, I put some of her toys all over the living room floor and watch her scoot around collecting them. I took this little video this morning, about 2 minutes ago, on my camera because I can’t find the cable for our actual video camera, which now has about 30 minutes of our kids being awesome stashed on the tape.
Here’s another photo of Julia at the art walk on Sunday. See that expression? That sucking on her lower lip, slightly amused at life expression? Hazel did that ALL THE TIME when she was a baby, and it’s no less adorable on Jules.
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Julia just had her four-month well baby check, and she is doing fantastically! Her muscle control is more like a 6-month-old’s, as she can sit up in the Bumbo seat, hold her head very steady, roll over from front to back, and get almost all the way over back to front. She’s in the 95% for height and the 60% for weight, so soon Amos and I are going to see if she would like oatmeal cereal. She does still have a blocked tear duct, which only results in an increased amount of eye boogers, and the doctor said it should resolve itself by 12 months. Overall, she’s a VERY healthy, sociable, awesome baby!
Every morning we go outside and water the plants that we are growing in our backyard. Hazel helped us choose each plant, and even picked which flowers were her special ones beside her lawn chair. I love doing this in the morning with her; we check on all our friends, give them a little shower, and then begin our day.
The Confer Family 