Big Girl Bed

Julianne has seemlessly made the transition to Big Girl Bed. The first time she saw her Big Bed she crawled up on to it and began squealing and rolling around. She immediately began jumping, but was told that is a "no no." The first few nights she wandered into our room saying, "Mommy Suzanne?" but now she sleeps pretty soundly and on occasion gets up just once. Friday night, she was wound up from a fun day and we kept catching her sneaking out of her room and trying to open the little drawer where we keep our front door key. When we asked what she was doing she said, "I unnnt key in bed."

By far, the cutest thing she has done lately is when she came into our room one morning and I picked her up and put her in bed with us. She looked at me and gently patted my face and said, "Hi Sweetheart." It just about made my heart melt. Julianne is a chatterbox and a drama queen and is so darn friendly. We meet random strangers and she is yelling "Hi Man! Hi Kids! Hi Boys!" to whoever passes us by.

So far, the terrible two's are not so terrible and are in fact, really fun. As she tries to control her little world, there is frustration when she discovers mommy and daddy are really in control of her world and there are limits to what she can do, but it is all a part of her normal and healthy develpment.

We are looking forward to Easter this weekend. We have an Easter Egg hunt at our church on Saturday, one at our house on Sunday morning, and one at Mimi/Papa's on Sunday afternoon, so she will have 3 egg hunts this year not including the one she did at school on Friday. She should be a pro after this year!

We are excited about this summer because eventhough Jules will not have school on Fridays, she will be starting gymnastics, swimming lessons, and will be going to 2 summer camps that last 2 weeks each. The camps are from 9-1 Mon-Thurs and each one has a theme like: "Animals" and "Olympics." The other fun thing we discovered is Story Time at the Library. Story Time lasts abuot an hour and the kids get animal crackers, sing songs, have 3 stories read to them (they read Dr Seuss the other week to celebrate his birthday), and do a craft. It is fun and free. We have started checking out library books too which is nice because I am so sick of all of her books except the new ones she got for Christmas/Birthday!