Hi everyone!

Mommy took me to the park by nana's house the other day. It was fun. Here I am missing my race car and pretending to drive using this big, green steering wheel. Uh... what the heck is that? Just when I think my hair is finally filling in, the wind blows the wrong way and reveals some notable gaps. *sigh*

Without Allie around the corner these days I have to rely on mom to play with me so when I'm on the see-saw she gets on the other side but, let's face it, she's too heavy and instead of enjoying the fun she's all lame and tries to take pictures of me. That's why when she told me to smile I made this face instead.

Eventually I moved on to the sandbox and tried to play with a few diggers, but, to be honest, my heart wasn't in it. I was kinda... distracted.

soooooo, does anyone know a good palm reader? I wonder if there's anything about hair growth written on there...?

Well, I kinda lied before when I said I'd update you guys in a day or two. I realize it's been more like a week or two but it's been pretty hectic trying to get settled in at Nana's house. Plus, mommy and daddy have been working at the cafe so there's a lot going on. But I'm here now!

Other than the aforementioned move everything's been pretty status quo - I've been playing, eating, running around, shoving things in DVD players and other A/V equipment, you know... the usual. In fact I don't really have much to blog about so I'll post a couple of pics from my playdate last weekend.

I hung out with my big cousin, Sammy. We went swimming and then went to the park near Sammy's house. She showed me around (as pictured above) and introduced me to a few key people. Then something very exciting happened: we came face-to-face with our first BULLY! YES people, that's what I said, a real, honest to goodness bully! It was something up until then that I'd only heard about in books. A girl tried to keep us off the monkey bars and kept shouting "NO" and held her foot out near my head like she was going to kick me (lucky for her she didn't try anything or I would have had to show her my super-south-korean death grip. Pray you never need to know more about it than what was just revealed). Our tactic was to just hang back and wait for her to move away and then we went climbing anyway... ha ha, sucker. Our moms were pretty proud of us and didn't have to step in once.

Then Sammy schooled me on the big scarey world outside of the playground:

Sam: "life's different 'out there' Jules. It's not all climbing and wading and having fun. People talk in full sentences and use stainless steel cutlery. Don't worry - I'll help you figure it all out."

Please Stand By...

Hey everyone. Sorry - no pics or videos from the last few days as we've been moving. That means that everyone's really distracted and picking up heavy things and driving them around and then putting them down again. I'll give you more of an update and some pics in the next day or two.

Bye!
love,
Jules

Nature vs. Nurture

Hey there,

You know what I really enjoy doing? Running without purpose or direction. Oh, and yelling while I do it. I wonder where I get it from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIyKK14RAAk

2 minutes in the park

(Barry White plays softly in the background...)


Uh oh... oh no... what's she doing? *mmmmwwwwah*

Hey, I could get used to this. Girls are aaaaaaalllllllright.

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY SAMMY!

It was my cousin Sammy's 2nd birthday party today - whooo hooooo! I do love a good party. Above there's a pic of Sammy with her cake (and he-hem, a certain handsome young man featured in the background) (no, Daddy, I don't mean you). And below is a pic of Sammy enjoying some of the fun and games at the "Kid Zone/Fun Land/Don't Make Your Mom and Dad Clean Up The Mess After Five Zillion Toddlers Have O.D.ed On Sugar" party location.


Not only did they have a slide and some balls... they had a bouncy castle. Have I ever told you how much I enjoy a good bouncy castle? Well I do. I really, really, really do. And so I bounced. I bounced like I've never bounced before...

I bounced with my cousin Matty...

I bounced with my cousin Ally...

I bounced by myself...

I even bounced with this kid (although I wasn't entirely sure what he was hoping to get into)

But, alas, all good things must come to a screeching & freaking painful end... Look at me... Look at my beautiful face. I look like a reject from last night's bare-knuckle underground fight club meeting. In actual fact this was caused by nothing nearly as cool as that but simply what we'll from here-on-in refer to as the bouncy castle "incident" of 2007 involving some particularly rough carpeting and a husky young girl named Ruth (it's a biblical name, yes, but let me tell you there was nothing Christian about this pint-sized hussy). I may never now strut the runways of Milan... *sigh*... Well, I'd better go learn to read or something. Looks like I'm going to have to rely on my brains afterall.

A WORD OF ADVICE

Calling all web-surfers that are 3-apples-high (like me). Something to try: when mom gives you a snack in a bowl (fish crackers work well for this), try taking it over to the couch and dumping it all over the place and stomping the bits into the rug a little. It's fun because then you get to watch your mom take apart all the furniture and carry stuff outside to shake it into the backyard and once you've swept everything up and thrown it outside, squirrels come right up to the door to eat your leftover snack bits! It's like African Lion Safari... Ya, that's what a said - African Lion Safari... Hey, listen, some of those squirrels can get pretty aggressive, alright?

Anyway, the other cool thing is that while mom's distracted & cleaning everything up it'll give you a chance to throw her cell phone into the toilet.

Nascar, Here I Come!

Well, some pretty exciting things have happened recently. Not least of all, I've become a champion race-car driver, as you can see here. I don't know who that old guy is, but he seems to think I'm all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips so he can stay.

I do have a secret to confide, however. It's true that photoshop can make things seem a little more "Hollywood" than they really are. So I've included a few photos of me in my new race car that mommy took so you can get the true picture.

I wonder if I make this face and squeeze really hard if I can make all my hair stand up?

Cooooooool - it worked!