Five

Today, Juliet and I had a playdate with our neighbours from the other side of our semi.  They have 3 kids; 2 of them are older and the other is a baby named Devin.  Devin is about 7 months old, so he and Juliet will be in the same grade when they start school - maybe even in the same class.  We've been in our house nearly five months and this is the first time we've actually gotten together with our neighbours.  With 3 kids, though, they are pretty busy - I know how busy we are with just Juliet, so I can't imaging having 3!  So anyhow, our neighbour came over with Devin and we had a little visit.  Devin isn't crawling or anything yet, so he and Juliet didn't really "play", but Juliet enjoyed reaching her hand out and touching his shoulder - this made her giggle.  He was super smiley and seemed to have a great disposition, just like Juliet.

 

This is our neighbour (she didn't really want to be in the picture) with Devin and Goobs.

Other than that, Juliet had a fairly typical day. 

 

Random, but I thought I would mention some of the strange things Juliet does, because some of them are kind of funny.

• If she's eating Cheerios, sometimes she refuses to eat the broken "O's".  Like, if they're half an "O", she just doesn't want it for some reason.
• She likes to put stuff into containers and then take them out.  As an example, she'll take her doll and put it in a basket, then take it out.
• When she's attempting to stand while holding onto something, she likes having a toy in her other hand.  Leo thinks it's to increase the level of difficulty, but I have no idea why she does this.
• We have a bit of an ant problem at our house, and every time I would walk into the front hall and see an ant, I would exclaim, "Argh!" in frustration.  Then I noticed Juliet would also say "argh!" each time we went into the front hall - I think she just thinks it's the thing to do while in the front hall!
• She loves to wave at everyone and everything.  She waves at strangers, she waves at Butters, sometimes she even waves at inanimate objects.
• She likes meat more than veggies - if she has both meat and a veggie on her tray, she'll clearly pick around the veggies to get all the meat before considering eating something green.

Here are some pictures of her playing in her pen. I had to go out for a bit tonight to go to physio (more on that another time), but Leo reports that she stood for up to 15 seconds while in the pen (without holding onto anything).