The pillow

This isn't an incredible significant bit of information but I thought it should be documented all the same.
Nothing brings Julius more joy than rolling around on the floor, clutching a pillow and farting. He does it on almost a daily basis and all the while he just smiles and laughs and laughs.

coming home

I love coming home to Julius. Doesn't matter what he's doing (or how full my arms are), as soon as he sees me he says, "OH!" and his arms shoot up so quickly that it hurts me to imitate him.
He does similar moves for when I get him out of bed after a nap or enter a room he's been playing in for a while. He makes a sweet, guileless face and says, "OH." What a sweet bundle of big boy -- even if he rolls around and yells all night!

Cuddle Treatment

Last night, around 2:00 am I whispered to Alan "Hey, did you blog about 'the cuddle treatment,' yet?" He said no so I am updating now in order to document this phenomenon.

Julius has entered a phase in his life where he must fuss or cry a bit before he is willing to finally give in and welcome sleep. Now, what we don't do is leave him alone in a room inside of a crib to cry. What we do do is hold him in our arms and rock him gently and sing. Boy does he hate it. He just cries and cries. I don't hold him very tightly so he breaks free quite a bit. After a couple of minutes of the cuddle treatment he's ready for sleep, though.
It's like some strange little dance we do now before bed.