Seoul Photo Shoot

Sort of a lot of pictures of Willow--but I rather post them here than anywhere else. At the airport in Korea, Willow was getting ready to sleep and getting her last bits of energy out. She climbed, crawled, and flapped her arms like a crazy woman.






Blurry, but I like it.




She likes to give me hugs.


~julie

"Did you see that on Pinterest?"

My husband has such faith in me.

When he got home from work today, I had this sudden urge to use an extra picture frame someone handed down to us recently, and some scrap book paper to make this little memory piece. It took less than fifteen minutes to trace our hands, cut them out, mount them, frame it, and hang it on the wall. The hardest part was tracing Willow's hand. We had to distract her with her favorite banana munchies.

After I was done, I made Adam admire my handiwork. "It looks nice," he observed. "Did you see that on Pinterest?". I laughed, but I think I should feel a little offended that he thinks all my craft and cooking ideas come from a social network.

But...I really did see it on Pinterest.

~julie

Tenacious

This little girl is a fighter. On her tenth day with the flu, and refusing to be my little patient. She plays as much as she can until she just can't take it anymore and then crashes for a nap. Through all the coughing, and gagging, and snotty trails she leaves everywhere...we've had a lot of 'fun' so far this February. Now I've been sick since Monday, and Adam woke up this morning with a sore throat (which was my first symptom).

I love this little face she makes. She does such funny things with her eye brows!

One of her new favorite past times that I cannot make her stop doing. She crawls over to the furniture, pulls herself up, and then cruises along the chairs. She will do this for hours on end. I've started putting toys on the couches for her so that she'll stop trying to eat our furniture.



Her other obsession is trying to get at the DVD player, XBox, and other gadgets her dad has over here. She is instant destruction!

We were accidentally coordinating one day.


Runny nose
Laptop love

Willow had a bad baby food experience around Christmas time. She is still unable to eat any kind of baby cereal--she always gags and throws up--no matter what. We've tried EVERYTHING. And I mean it! Give me a suggestion, and I promise, we've tried it already. Tonight, I tried again, thinking that maybe she would be over this weird mental aversion she has to baby cereal. I hadn't offered it to her at all in over two weeks...she still gagged and threw up upon the first little taste. It's an immediate and eerily strange reaction she has to it, consistently, all the time. She will eat her chew-able baby food, and her pureed baby foods, but cannot even SWALLOW baby cereal. I was hoping she would have gotten over it by now. She's been sleeping better at night the last two nights (which has been great because after jet lag, and this influenza bug, we had been on the new born schedule again) but has still been waking up once in the middle of the night to eat. I was hoping that some rice cereal at night would help to hold her over. Oh well! She still can't eat it! She was trying so hard to like it. She was actually opening her mouth for me, and clapping her hands to encourage herself. To no avail, she still couldn't swallow it. I even had mixed some yummy banana/plum baby food in the rice cereal--and now that's wasted too.

I guess I'm pitching the cereals for good. It's been almost fifty days of this nonsense!

~julie

Re-discovered

During Willow's nap today, I stumbled upon a fold filled with wedding pictures that I haven't looked at in a while. These were all taken by my old friend, and great photographer--Kristi Witek. We also had pictures taken by my cousin's talented husband, Jay Oakman. But this particular folder I was perusing was just of Kristi's work. She focused more on candid shots throughout the entire day. Perhaps I will post more later, but for right now, I need to head to bed! I have a terrible sickness falling upon me, and a long day tomorrow.
If you like Kristi's work, I can lead you to her business/website.

I loved our cake. It had many delicious layers. Sadly, I didn't get to eat any on our wedding day. Someday, when we're back in America during our anniversary, I plan on buying another cake from the same company, same cake/frosting/fillings--so that I can actually EAT it.



Adam's childhood barn that held his John Deere tractors. His grandfather built it for him.










Someday, I'm going to print our wedding pictures and actually put an album together. For right now, online posting is what I'll stick to. It's been fun to take another look at some of the pictures from our wedding. Thank you, Kristi for the fun photos!

~julie