Julia and Emily's World

Julia has been sick for the past few days. She has a bad cold (coughing and runny nose) and has had a fever too. The fever has been better today (around 99-100). Ear infection? Maybe. She woke up one night with a high fever and said her ear hurts. She stayed home from school on Friday and stayed with Grandma. Yesterday Mommy and I went to a wedding so Julia spent the day with Grandma. Grandma brough her home later for dinner/bath/bed. Uncle Louis is coming over for dinner later today.

Not too much happened this weekend. The rain kept us inside most of the time. Lots of Dora, reading books, looking at old pictures... We went to lunch with Grandma, Papere and Aunt Weezie today. Golden Griddle. Julia was in underwear this afternoon. It was a so-so success. Although she went on the potty one time she had two accidents. Once in the kitchen and another time in her room. We'll keep trying. The good thing is that she really doesn't like to have accidents so she is at least trying.

Today we had Easter dinner at Grandma and Papere's house. Grandma K and Papa were also there. There was LOTS of food. The weather was nice so we got to spend some time outside too.

Today we went to Grandma and Papa's condo for Easter. It started out badly. On the way into the condo we dropped one of the Easter baskets because it was so windy out. Unfortunately it rolled into the driveway and a car ran it over. The driver actually saw the basket, slowed down and then proceeded to squash it! How rude is that? Squashing a kid's Easter basket...Happy Easter A-Hole! So Nathan didn't get a basket (sorry Nathan). The first thing we did was go SWIMMING in the pool! Julia was so excited. She was talking about it earlier in the day, "I'm going swimming at Grandma's!". The problem was that her vision of a swimming pool was 3ft in diameter and 6 inches deep not a REAL swimming pool! She did not like it at all. We only stayed in for a few minutes. The rest of the cousins loved it. The rest of the evening was fun for everyone. Good food, ducky game, playing on the balcony, chocolates! Julia was whipped by the end of the night. She sl...

Today we made Easter Eggs! Julia had fun dipping them into the colours and putting stickers on them. In the afternoon we walked to Grandma and Papere's house to deliver the eggs to Grandma, Papere and Auntie Weezie. We stayed for supper too. Julia walked half-way each way so that's around 1km each way. Not bad. A couple of falls on the way back but she was getting pretty tired. Yesterday the "Easter Bunny" visited the school and handed out stickers. Julia says "That's Michelle". She's not easily fooled.

Julia being silly. This was from last month.

Tonight Julia had her first visit with the dentist. She liked the kids waiting room but didn't enjoy the dentist. The dentist just had a look over Julia's teeth. There were no problems. She's a bit young to start going to the dentist but I was going anyways. No cavities for me too!

Yesterday we went to the mall. Julia always has fun at the mall but it is getting tougher to go shopping with her. In the stroller, out of the stroller, holding hands, no holding hands. It's tough to keep up with her. Today Mommy and Julia went to Bernice's baby shower for baby Madelyne. I stayed home and watched the Masters in peace. What a treat! Too bad Tiger couldn't pull off the comeback down the stretch. Tomorrow Papa, Grandma K and Mommy will be picking up Julia from school. Julia is looking forward to it. She's actually been mentioning it at school for a week now. We will be meeting with Julia's teacher to go over how she is developing so far.

Hey we had a rabbit in our backyard tonight like Andrew and Nathan did. It sat there for a long time until I walked in the backyard. It took off to the neighbour's backyard.

Today's weather was fantastic. Sunny! We took advantage of it by going to the park. Julia is much braver than last year. Today she went on the swings and the slides. From the park we walked to Grandma and Papere's house for dinner. The first BBQ of the season.

Today's weather was fantastic. Sunny! We took advantage of it by going to the park. Julia is much braver than last year. Today she went on the swings and the slides. From the park we walked to Grandma and Papere's house for dinner. The first BBQ of the season.

After many months of being number two, I've have reclaimed my spot as "the favourite". It was Mommy, Mommy all the time and I was relegated to being the designated chauffer. Julia would run away from me at daycare when I picked her up, fight with me in the car while continually stating "I want my Mommy!". Really, I couldn't win...until now. How did I do it you ask? I used a clever combination of two things...technology and Dora! I borrowed a portable DVD player from a co-worker and had Dora playing during her drive. She loves it! She is so happy to see me when I pick her up. She's like a little zombie in the back seat staring at the screen. I only hear a few words during the drive. "Where's swiper?", "I wanna see another one!", "Move your arm!" (sometimes I accidentally get in her way). Now I have to return it so I'd better run out a buy one myself before I loose my top ranking. Who said parenting is hard? O...

Today was Julia's two year check up. It was generally uneventful aside from the 1 hour and 15 minute wait! It took forever. Julia is average weight, average height and perfectly healthy. She was really good too considering the wait. No poopy diaper this time too. On the way out we had a very scary moment. Getting off the elevator Julia got her hand caught in the elevator door. It was wedged in between the doors inside face and where the door goes into the wall. If you can't picture it, imagine putting your palm flat on the door and let the door open without removing it. This is what Julia did. Luckily there was another gentleman in the elevator with us and he stopped the door from closing any further while I pulled Julia's hand free. She was in pain. Her hand swelled up immediately. I tried to get her to use the hand to see if it was broken or sprained. She wouldn't hold anything with that hand so back up to the doctor's we went. They put an ice pack ...

Julia went to the ear doctor today for a regular check-up. Unfortunately we found out that her ear tubes had fallen out. He said they have been out for awhile because the hole in the ear drum was closed too. This means that she is back to where she was last year. He suspects that she will continue to experience repeated ear infections and fluid behind the ears because she is still very young. We'll see. We have a follow up with him in 3 months. Julia was very co-operative at the check-up. She didn't cry or whine or anything. I think she was more concerned with the big dump she left in her diaper! I had to change her in the car afterwards. Not fun.

On Sunday Tracy and Greg and the whole gang over their new home. Nice place and it was good to see Tanya and Uncle O too. The kids liked playing with the rabbit Mochi. He's a lot bigger than the last time we saw him. Julia was nervous of him at first but really warm up to him after a while. She even fed him grass.

Julia and the toddlers dance with Dora.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This was the best picture I could get of Julia in her St. Paddy's Day outfit. She's not to co-operative in the morning.

Taken on Feb 13, 2006.

Yesterday was show and share day at school. Julia brought her purple care bear and pictures of her purple room. I was told that she did very good sharing which was nice to hear. Today at school Julia helped make home made GREEN pasta. She was very proud of herself. Tomorrow they get to eat it. Grandma and Papere are picking Julia up from school tomorrow. She has already made it crystal clear to them that she is expecting a trip to McDonalds AND Tim Horton's on the way home. New PJs