Feliz Navidad

Merry Christmas! I am so thankful for God sending his son to this fallen and broken world so that we may be redeemed.  What joy we can find in that truth!

It was a very feliz and blessed Navidad.  There was lots of family, food, and quality time.  Juliet truly loved opening gifts and her expression of excitement as she saw the gift she was receiving for the first time was priceless.  She would just point and say "please, please,..." until we got it opened.  Karina was also with us for most of the festivities, and having her be a part of Christmas in the U.S. for the first time was so fun!   We had a total of five (Asheville, Danville, Lenoir, Asheville again, and D.C.) Christmases....

CHRISTMAS IN ASHEVILLE WITH THE SULLIVANS:

CHRISTMAS IN VIRGINIA WITH THE STOWES:

CHRISTMAS IN LENOIR WITH THE KINCAIDS/SULLIVANS:

 

Juliet's name puzzle built by my dad :)

 CHRISTMAS IN ASHEVILLE WITH THE KRISHNANS/ZETTERHOLMS:

Juliet and her new (and first!) cousins Ben and Naomi

 CHRISTMAS IN CHARLOTTE WITH THE KRISHNANS AND IN D.C. WITH MICAH:

Then we drove to DC....and Juliet did well, but she did NOT do the above the whole way ;)

 

 

 

15 months

Sweet, baby girl Juliet Isabel is 15 months today!  I tried to get a good picture of her to post today but, as you can see, I did not.  She is just so active and always just wanting to play.  Never a still moment.  She loves toys and exploring anything an everything.  She really loves going into the nursery because she loves all of the new toys.  Thankfully, she is still doing about 13 hours at night, but she did drop down to just one daily nap that usually lasts about 2 hours, give or take a little.  She is obsessed with babies and loves giving hugs and kisses (to anyone ;)) She is so fun, silly, inquisitive, and ticklish!  Love her so much!!!

Juliet's Tricks

Juliet very much tries to be like an adult, mimicking everything we do these days.  She also has a growing vocabulary of animal sounds (if that counts as vocabulary?!), "please", "cheese", "ball", "agua", "mama", ...   We talk to her in both Spanish and English on a regular basis and she seems to understand them equally well.  She can point to most of her body parts when asked to in both languages, and will hold up one finger if you ask her how old she is :)  She also loves to show-off her belly/panza.  My friend Karina is here vising from Mexico and Juliet adores her!

Wagon fun with Karina

Juliet is obsessed with carrying a purse on her shoulder and rocking her baby

She loves that Ellie shares her bed : /

Showing off her belly and patting it at the same time.  ....learned from her grandfather