Love this Girl

Oh, Juliann... Where do I start with you? You are my sweet little angel, my juju bug, and I love you more than you will ever know. You're as sweet as sugar but you know how to stick your claws out too.

You're mama's little helper, you love to help me with the laundry or the dishes, and you always run to get a diaper for Jackson when I ask you to. I always have a partner to eat cucumbers with now that you're around. We are the greatest team ever for baking cookies together, we both dump things in and we both taste test.

You are already a little mama. You love to take care of your babies and gently rock them and lay them down for a nap. You are such a good big sister to Jackson. You make him smile and laugh and you love to run to his room and try to get him up when he wakes up. You are also the perfect little coach for him trying to roll over and learn things. You still call him "Baby" because you can only say "Jack" like "Dat" right now.

Speaking of which, you are finally starting to talk. You would communicate through gestures and pointing and facial expressions for the longest time, but now your vocabulary is growing like crazy. You say new, cute things every day. Some of my favorites are "Come on guys!" and "Ready to go, mama?" and I love it when you tell Jackson, "Mama's nuhming, mama's nuhming (coming)."

You are starting to discover yourself. You have learned that you like to show off to other people. You hop and hop and hop whenever anyone is around. You are finally over your shy stage and you will say "Hi" and "Thank you" to strangers with out me begging you to.

You love to read. We go to the library almost every week and get new books. We read all of them and then you find one or two you LOVE and we read those twice a day, every day until we go back to the library. You always beg for more books when we're reading before nap and before bed time.

You are absolutely a girly girl. You are in love with tea parties and picnics. You have some little plastic stackable bowls you pretend are dishes and pop-beads are the food. You serve us "pie" in a bowl with a spoon any chance you get. You have asked me to paint your toenails several times out of the blue. Your favorite color is pink. Any time you see me putting makeup on you pull your stool over and start pretending to put some on yourself too. Your favorite movie is Beauty and the Beast. You love to put your tutu on and dance like they do on "Booty and Beeeast."

Last week you all of a sudden started saying thank you every time we sit down to eat supper. And you say it over and over. Now you also say it with out me telling you too at other times during the day. It makes my day!

I love you!