Damian Julio

A cold front blew in this week, which was a major bummer, but we still managed some beach and nature time, even among all the Christmas activities. Here’s what our last week of 2014 looked like…

From the Forest to the Farm to the Beach. This was a busy week. We finished packing up our house and we are now safe and sound in Texas. We spent our last evening in Virginia driving to my family/friend’s hops farm in Maryland. Organarchy is the largest hops farm in the state, and they are…

Dear Damian, You are now officially mobile! You started out the month with scooting and rocking back and forth on your knees, and it took you a couple of weeks but you finally figured out how to crawl. Just as I suspected, you are so much happier “on your own” now that you can do…

Dear Baby Boy,This is the first of many letters I’ll be writing you while you are in my belly and throughout your childhood. I’ve been meaning to write you sooner, but I kept waiting for a quiet moment that never came. You see, you have an older sister who is very busy (to say the…

Damian had his six-month checkup on tuesday! He is 27 inches long and weighs a little over 19lbs. Crazy! He is regularly pulling himself up on things. He’s also getting better at transitioning from the sitting to crawling position and then back again, but he’s still not crawling in a traditional way. He was sick…

Eva had an amazing week for a two-year-old. We went on an outing to Maymont in Richmond, which I’ll write about another time. The highlight of our week, of course, was Halloween. It was Eva’s first time trick-or-treating and she’s obsessed now. I had to explain to her the next day why we couldn’t do…

Little Red Riding Hood is by Kenzie’s Treasures and the Big Bad Wolf I found on Amazon.