This is Julia, she's smiling a lot these days. Today (March 24 2008) I put her on her play mat and she started grabbing the rings. And the other day she started looking at her hands. I love seeing all the phases they go through, it's so fun. She has started to be more and more content, the older she gets. For a while there she had some rough crying spells, but I think we're through the worst of it. She was never that bad, but she's had her days when no matter what I do she doesn't want to settle down. Marc says whenever she gets away from the milk smell, she freaks out. But I think she's getting better. She watches Natalie as she runs around the house, I can already tell she adores her. Her face just lights up whenever she sees her. And Natalie loves to play with her and talk to her. I can't wait for them to get to play together.

Last Wednesday March 19, 2008 I took the girls to a place called the Oakland house. It's a big old house that they've redone. They open it up every Christmas and Easter. It's $3 a person. They do a puppet show, pet a real bunny, meet the Easter Bunny, and get to make a bag with candy in it. Natalie is so cute, she kept saying, "That's the mommy easter bunny, where's the daddy easter bunny?" Most of the kids were scared of the easter bunny, but Natalie went straight up to him and hugged him and asked him to pick her up. She had such a fun time. The little old ladies were so sweet, the kept telling me how beautiful my girls were. I bet they just love seeing all the kids come through there.

This week has been interesting so far. I am trying to get Julia to sleep in her bed in Natalie's room. The doctor said it was a good time to start. Anyway, I put her in there the other night and Natalie was so excited, she was say, "Julia is going to sleep in here with me?" with a big smile on her face. It was so cute. Then when Julia woke up while Natalie was trying to fall asleep she would say, "Julia, it's time to go to sleep, you need to be quiet", or "what's wrong Julia, you're OK." I wish I had a recorder to record the cute things she was saying to her. She always talks to her like she knows exactly what she's saying. She carries on her own little conversations with her and I love it. She loves having a sister around to kiss and read to, and she loves to hold her with the boppy pillow. I hope this transition will be an easy one with them sleeping in the same room, I think if I just get Natalie to sleep first she probably won't wake up while I'm putting Julia down, but we'll see how it goes. If anyone has advice about how to make this work, I'll take it, because I'm a little nervous about this new transition.
Julia's blessing is coming up on the 30th of March. A lady in my ward is making her dress and I'm so excited about it. She made Natalie's and I'm hoping to be able to give them their dresses when they grow up as an heirloom for their girls to wear. When I get the dress I'll post pictures.

I love my sweetie!

Ok, I deleted that last post, I'm feeling kind of bad about it. I should have kept this between the two of us. I think I hurt Marc's feelings and that wasn't my intention. I really am glad that he gets to do fun things with his family. We are so blessed to have family close. We get to see our family often and I think it's been good for us and them. This morning while I was getting ready for church I heard Marc talking to the girls in our bed. It was soo sweet. I know he cares deeply about them and they sure adore him. Marc if you read this, know that I love you and I'm sorry. You are a good dad and husband. I want you to have a break once in a while.

Love,
Michelle