Well, Julia is really big on all food these days, and the best food is whatever Mommy or Daddy has on their plate.  Since all the grocery stores have had them on sale, we’ve been buying a lot of watermelons lately.  Who can resist a yummy, juicy watermelon?  Not Julia!

She just gets so impatient!  You can almost hear her say, “Daddy, hurry up!”

Then, we found a little spot in the  corner for babies.  They had a nice tent for little people to cool off and play in the shade.  We let Julia out to play on the little playset.  Poor thing, she spent most of the time at the fair in the stroller, but she did like watching Joshua.

After we left the kiddie tent, Joshua headed straight for the train ride.  If you ask him, he’ll say this was his favorite.  He got to sit in the front and “drive.”  After the train, Joshua rode the car ride.

After the cars, Joshua had a big decision to make…there were 3 rides left to choose from, and only enough tickets for one.  Joshua chose the swing ride.  I think he enjoyed it, it just wasn’t that exciting.

As we left the midway, there were 2 little ponies just begging for someone to ride them.  We asked Joshua if he wanted to take a ride, and he did.  The man running the pony rides was really nice, and let Joshua ride for a very long time (there was no one else there – Joshua had almost every ride to himself).  I think if Joshua hadn’t decided on his own that he was done riding, there’s no telling how long he could have stayed!

Like I said, the man who owned the ponies was really nice.  When Joshua was done riding, he let us set Julia up on the pony for a picture.

We had a great day out at the fair!  We all pretty much crashed when we got home…or, on the way home.

Hope you guys enjoy these! She’s growing so fast!

The big thing is, of course, walking!  Last week she started letting go and taking 1-2 independent steps.  I was excited, but I didn’t want to call that walking.  More like taking a couple of lucky steps before she fell down.  This week is a whole new story.  Just this past Tuesday she just took off and walked down one of the aisles at the mall.  Since then she’s been walking everywhere she goes!  She totally took us all by surprise.  Joshua didn’t walk this early – he was 11 1/2 months.  Julia’s walk is so funny.  She holds her hands up at her chest, and reminds me of Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde.  “Bend and snap” anyone?  First some pictures of my baby at 10 months!  She’s still sporting the Pebbles ‘do!

I like this last picture because you can see those bottom teeth.  Still the only teeth she has in, but we’re expecting the uppers to come in soon.  Even with just the 2 teeth we’ve moved on to a whole bunch of new foods.  She still loves the puffs, and she’s also tried yogurt, chicken, bread, and graham crackers.  We’ll probably try Cheerios soon.  They’re so much cheaper than puffs.  She just loves to eat, and I’m so grateful that she is as good as eater as her big brother!

I really want to post the walking videos, but they are too big for WordPress to upload, but don’t worry…Jason will figure something out.  He always does. 

Anyway, all this house stuff has been a little bittersweet.  We’re really excited to move into our new house, but we’ll miss our old house.  We have so many good memories there.  It’s sad to think that the house we brought 2 brand new babies home to, and the house where Joshua took his first steps and Julia learned to crawl, is a house that neither of them will remember.  We’ll drive by it and tell them that they lived there when they were babies, but they’ll have no memories of it.  It is such a good house.  We’ll miss it!

Since Julia is so on the move, there was no chance of getting her to sit still for a picture.  At least not a nicely posed one.  Fortunatly she’s completely cute no matter what!  Check out the new hairdo!  Her locks are getting so long, that we’ve had to resort to the Pebbles look.  I had almost forgotten what her eyes looked like!

Joshua was feeling left out of the pictures, and he asked to be included.