My climber!

As I said in my previous post, that Jude is a major climber. Usually I am running to grab him, so there is rarely photo evidence of said climbing. Here are a couple of pictures I did snap of his climbing.

Trying to climb out of his crib by using his crib piano as a step. The crib piano was removed after this photo.


Climbing on the couch. He was just so proud of himself.



He face is filthy, but this boy eats constantly, so his face is almost always dirty.

Still not walking

I thought for sure Jude would be walking by his first birthday. He rolled sooner, crawled sooner, pulled up sooner, and cruised furniture sooner, than Julia ever did. Alas, it did not mean anything. Jude is still not walking. I just my kids just like to take their good old time learning to walk. He is only 13 months old, so I am not worried at all. Julia was 15 months old before she finally decided to walk. I am pretty sure Jude could walk if he just wanted to.

He is getting closer. He will now take a step or two between two pieces of furniture. He just needs to get it in his head that he can do it.

BUT.... For someone who is not even walking yet, he sure can climb!!! He is constantly climbing something. He climbs onto the coffee table, onto the couch, into Julia's car, the BABY GATES!! Anything that can be climbed, he will try to climb.

He can also crawl FAST! It is hard to catch him sometimes. Occasionally he will get crawling so fast, he cannot move his hands fast enough to keep up and will face plant into the floor.

What a little stinker!

Tractor ride

I did not capture Jude's very first tractor ride on camera. He has had several since. I finally had my camera for one of his tractor rides a couple of weeks ago.

Jude getting ready to ride with Grandpa (my dad).


"This is fun, you know I am up for anything!"


You can tell these pictures were taken during one of the hottest weeks of summer, because my dad has on his cut-off bib overalls. He only gets them out when it is in the high 90's. Otherwise he wears normal bib overalls.

Watermelon

We gave Jude a slice of watermelon and it was funny to watch him try to figure out how to eat it! Jerrod's Grandpa Brokaw (which is where Jude's middle name comes from) is the one holding him.

Jude thought it was pretty nasty tasting stuff at first because he kept biting off pieces of the rine.




Once he finally figured out what part to eat, he loved it!

Still alive.

I'm still here and still alive. Things have been a little crazy and I have been dealing with some depression.

I have oodles of pictures to post. Hopefully I can get to that soon.

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Jude's first birthday!!!!

My baby boy turned ONE on July 31st. We had his birthday party on Sunday. It is so hard to believe my baby is already one! He is such a joy. He really completes our happy little family! I could not have asked for a better son.

Onto the party. Julia helped make and decorate Jude's cake. The only problem was that she was not careful in watching where she put her arms and several times she ended up smashing part of the cake that I had already decorated, resulting in me have to try to fix it. I still think it turned out okay.


The birthday boy eating a snack. He was feeling a little under the weather the day of his party.


Hanging out with dad.


His shirt said "Baby's 1st Birthday".


He got this riding horse from his Aunt Ninnie.



Time for CAKE!!


Once everyone started singing, Jude got really shy and turned his head so he could not see anyone.


YUM, cake....



Licking the plate clean!







PRESENTS!







Time for some swimming! Sitting on Grandpa's lap with his cousin. (Who is 2 weeks older than Jude.)


Swimming with Mimi. Loving the new ball he got for his birthday! Jude loves bouncy balls!


The weather was great and the party went well. The only problem was that Jude fell early into the the party and busted his lip open pretty bad. It bled off and on for several hours. It was also pretty painful for Jude. So he was pretty somber and just wanted held by his mommy for most of the entire party. He refused to go to anyone else for a LONG time. Good to know Mommy can still make him feel better, even if he is becoming a big boy.

One year check-up

Jude had his one year check-up day. He does not officially turn one until Saturday.

The check-up went great! The pedi was pleased with how Jude was doing. I told her that he still has sensitive skin, has night terrors, and has the Molluscum that Julia has. I know how to deal with all these issues (Julia has/had all of them), so that was not a big deal.

Jude did break out in a terrible diaper rash today. His poop was just so acidic from eating oranges yesterday that his poor bottom was just raw. He would scream bloody murder every time I tried to wipe his bottom. Yesterday was the first time he has ever had oranges. Pedi said that he is definitely allergic to them and not to give them to him again.

He is growing great. He weighed 22 lbs 13 ozs., which puts him in the 50th percentile. He was 30 inches long (65%) and his head measured 18 3/4 (85%). He dropped a lot on the length chart, according to my records he only grew 1 inch in 3 months. I don't think that is right and he was probably measured wrong. We will see when we go back in 3 months. His weight picked up, but then, he eats CONSTANTLY! He finally has a chubby face and cute chubby legs.

The pedi was impressed that he was speaking sentences already. She told me to just kept doing what I was doing.

Poor Jude did get two shots. He screamed for a few seconds, but then was all grins and smiles while he flirted with the doctor.

Showing her pig!

Julia showed a pig at the fair in the Open Show last night. She did AWESOME!!!! She has been practicing, but I still was a little worried about her getting scared when she got in the ring with all the other pigs. She proved me wrong and then some. She was not scared at ALL, she actually smiled the WHOLE time!!(The pig weighs 240+ pounds) Jerrod went out in the ring with her in case she got scared or needed help, but Julia kept telling him "Go away Daddy, I can do it myself!"!!!!

My little girl is growing up so fast!!!

Jude and Bapa waiting for the show to start.


Eating a snack before it was her turn to go and show.


She was WAY excited. She kept saying "I want to walk my pig NOW!".


Jude and Mimi waiting on Julia. (Jude was not happy he had to be held the whole time. He wanted down to crawl everywhere!)


In the holding pen waiting for her class to be called out. Getting last minute advice from Daddy and Uncle Bill.




FINALLY, time to show her pig. (Her pig is the red one.)




Smiling for the cameras.



She loved her hot pink whip Grandpa bought for her to show with!




All done showing and put the pig back in his pen.


Jude was glad we were done and could now see more of the fair!


Although her pig did not place in her class, the smile on Julia's face while showing made it all worthwhile! She is already talking about doing it again next year!