Cottage Life

Whew!  It's been a long time since my last update but Juliet has been busy.  We just got home from a week at a cottage located at Round Lake Centre (about 2 hours northwest of Ottawa).  The most exciting thing that happened is that Juliet learned that she can express herself with her voice.  Often, now, she will "speak" to you when you talk to her.  Here's a short video - sorry it's horizontal - next time I will know to move the camera the other way.

The funniest thing is sometimes when she starts to cry, she will hear her own voice and then get preoccupied with that and forget that she was starting to cry and she will then be happy.  So cute!

Ok, now it's time for picture overload so get ready. 

Here's the cottage itself - it is pretty small but very cute and has everything you'd need.  It's right on the lake and has a small dock.  It was great - we BBQed every night for dinner.



Juliet loved looking around at the trees.



We dipped Juliet's feet in the lake and she didn't seem to mind. The lake was very clean and clear. We put a little bonnet on her to protect her from the sun.  Grandma thought she looked like a little "Quaker Girl".

This is currently one of my favourite pictures of Leo and Juliet - they both look so serious. 

 Below are pictures from our visits with family - Juliet with June & Charlie, Babs & Gerrie, and Gale.  Juliet was really well behaved on her visits and everybody enjoyed meeting her.

The trips to and from the cottage were Juliet's longest road trips yet - about 5 hours.  Both times she did really well and only really started to fuss in the last 20 minutes or so. 

Another exciting thing happened while we were away was that Juliet slept through the night on the last night we were there.  She went to bed that night at about 10:30pm and slept until about 7:30am.  Frankly, it wasn't that great of a sleep for me because I still woke up at about 3:30am out of habit and couldn't get back to sleep for a couple of hours and kept on checking on her to make sure she was ok.  She hasn't slept through the night again since that night, but at least we know it's possible!