Random Things

I haven't taken any pictures lately, but I just wanted to type up a quick update of random things we have been doing. Adria is getting so close to walking!! It's really amazing how fast those little newborns change into toddlers. She now takes three or four steps before falling down. She does it all day long so I know that walking is not far off. We have progessed with her sleeping to a point where she will still wake up once or twice a night, but now she will fall back asleep as soon as I let her know that I'm still here. At least I don't have to sit and feed her for 10 minutes a few times a night. As soon as Julia is fully settled into her big girl bed, we will move Adria into the crib and reclaim our bedroom. I have to say that of all the difficulties I have had with my girls, the sleep issues tire me out the fastest. That said, I love those girls to pieces. Adria has developed a great love of animals and her favorite thing right now is to have me read her books with pictures of animals. It is really sweet because she gives each animal a kiss when I tell her the sound. Something unique about Adria is that she likes showers! Julia hates getting water on her face, but the other day I used the shower to wash off Adria and she loved it. She could not get enough of it. It is really fun to me to find all the little differences between the girls. Julia's favorite toy this week is her umbrella. Who knew that a simple umbrella could keep her imagination going for so long. I had found a beautiful pink silk and wood umbrella with flowers painted on it at a garage sale a while back and Julia wanted to play with it all day long. Unfortunately it was a full sized umbrella and she was having trouble with it. Rachelle found a little toddler sized princess umbrella at WalMart (your favorite and mine) and so I got that for her and she takes it anywhere she can. Also, today Rachelle and I took the girls and Zach up to the Spectrum in Irvine and Julia and Tori had so much fun! So did I! We let them play in the water fountain and then they got to ride on the Carosel (Julia keeps saying over and over "Julia ride shorsey and Tori ride deer round and round really fast!" one day we'll teach her that horse doesn't start with an s) Then we went to this little pet store that my friend Ashley told us about and the girls got to take one of the puppies for a walk. Rachelle named him Snowball since was very fluffy and white and we got two leashes for Snowball so that Julia and Tori could each hold one. I wish I could have gotten it on video because it was really cute. The girls really enjoyed taking the puppy on a walk. Julia even got to finish the day off with dinner at Corner Bakery (yummy!!) and ice cream from Golden Spoon. What a lucky little girl!