A montage of picture-stories

Uncle Adam is home from Sweden for Christmas break!! "And now i will wrestle with uncle adam !!" says the happy Julia.
Brushing up on world geography....learning her flags. This is her favorite page of the delightful Children's Atlas from my loving sister. Whenever she gets the chance, we look at this page and point out the flags we like and name the countries they are from. (if mommy can pronounce them! yikes.) (oh yes, and she is on her potty, doing very well i might add. today she told me each time she had to go!! i am thrilled! and one of those times was at the grocery store! thankfully we have visited that bathroom many times and knew where it was)
Another great shot of our new horse. yes it lives in Julia's room, but so far it isn't very messy. Seems to take care of itself quite well. I don't know why we didn't get a pet sooner!
Way back to last week and our "present day", we had our friends Chris and Mary over for "Christmas Dinner". (notice the horse is sitting with Julia?) haha. Lovely times were had by all. I truly enjoy these two, well, really we all enjoy them, but i am writing this. ha. Not only are they fun-loving, inspirational, and knowledgable...but you should hear the great accents that Chris can read stories in! haha.
And a final shot for this montage: Julia pretending to be in a band. yes, a marching band. The togue is her hat (it HAD to be tied under her chin, just like the band we watched in the Christmas parade) and the thing in her hand is a flag she made . (the marching band had flag girls) We (mommy and Julia) marched around the house in circles for at least ten minutes...and then daddy joined us for anther five before she decided the band should stop and rest. hahah. it was pretty fun.

and silly.
i like silliness.
enjoy your day!
i get to see my cousin tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i haven't seen her in a year! yippppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!