One year later...

Hi everybody!
It's me, Julien the Toddler!
Sorry that it's been so long since I've written. Just 2 days ago I celebrated my 25th-month birthday, and we still haven't even blogged about it!
Lots of stuff has been happening, and my parents and I have been a bit too busy to share details with you, our fellow loyal blog readers. And I'm very sorry for this. I just get so busy playing with my friends and then this causes me to get tired and sleep. My pediatrician and other grown ups think that it's important that I'm sleeping to get rest and energy. So as a result, I'm asleep for more than half of the 24 hours in a day, and as a further result, it means that there just isn't enough time to update my blog on a timely basis!
So enough excuses - here are some fun pictures from last May 2010. Look at them carefully, so that you can compare them to a fun dinner I enjoyed with Ruby and her family on Friday, May 27. My parents were also there.

Here I'm pushing Ruby as she sits atop her tiger.

It really was a lot of fun. We were both 10 months, and neither of us had that much hair - the hair was just slowly growing in for both of us.

Now it's a full year later, and suddenly Ruby is moving me on the tiger! In the above picture, she's pulling me. Can you see how we both have a lot more hair??

Then she started to push me on the tiger. I enjoyed a cup of tea during the ride! What service!

Here she continues to push me. Just like I pushed her. We always get to have good fun! No surprise, because she's Ruby! Big yay!
Love,
Julien the Toddler

Guess where I am??

Hi everybody!
It's me, Julien the Toddler!
Here I am ringing a big bell! Can you guess where I am??
Ding dong!

As you can see from the picture... I'm ringing the bell!

Fortunately, the hammer is sized perfectly for my hands!

Finally, I'm waving Bye Bye to the bell! After all, I got such joy from ringing the bell, so I wanted to say Farewell to the bell!

Have you guessed where I am? OK I'll tell you.
This is at The Discovery Museum, on May 19! Yes, the place with the train & boat room, the Tonka trucks, and other fun spots. There's a hiking trail with this fantastic bell.
Who would have guessed that I'm at a Museum???
This was towards the end of our adventures with Zealand, when we all took a short hike and then I wanted to ring the bell while Zealand and his mommy trekked onwards.
I rang the bell, then we caught up with Zealand.
Fun times! Like I said before, we look forward to returning to The Discovery Museum.
Love,
Julien!

Racing Tonka Trucks on 5/19/11 at Discovery Museum!

Hi everybody!
It's me, Julien the Toddler!
I'm really 2 years old. Thank you all for your sweet birthday wishes. I really appreciate it!
I wanted to share some more pictures and adventures from our visit at the Discovery Museum on May 19, 2011. This is almost a month ago, with our friends Zealand and his mommy Chelsea. Incidentally Zealand has just become a big brother - now he has a baby sister named Avery! So big congratulations to Zealand and his parents and of course to Avery! That's so exciting.
Anyway back to the Discovery Museum - they have a platform with a ramp and Tonka trucks. The Tonka trucks are for everyone to share, very fun!
So Zealand and I, along with some other toddlers, rode with the Tonka trucks.
Here are some fun pictures!
Here I am with a Tonka truck, heading downhill. Meanwhile, Zealand and another boy are with their own Tonka trucks, and they are going uphill!

Oh dear... will there be a collision?

But fortunately there is no collision because Zealand and the other boy parted as I descended and they ascended.

In fact, as you can see, Zealand ascended quite quickly... and this sets the tone for our next scene! Meanwhile, I'm heading to the bottom of the ramp.

This was a lot of fun!
Here's a set of pictures where we are all at the top of the ramp, all planning to descend. Although we are not racing with each other, we all are trying to move fast, since we're all active boy toddlers! As you can see, I'm "Caught in the Middle" between Zealand and the other boy. And yes, that was for you, DOJ!
"Even though I'm with someone new
All I can think about is you
And now I'm caught,
Caught in the middle"
A1 (yes, that's for my daddy! Remember, he likes to turn me upside down and then get turned upside down in his Pilates class - classic whackjob daddy!)

But as you can see, Zealand has already moved downhill very quickly, much faster than me, but even more faster than the other boy!

And again I must emphasize that we weren't in an official race. Still, I was very happy for Zealand as he had his victory roar. He deserves it!

And these are just some examples of our Tonka adventures at The Discovery Museum! Very excellent and fun. There really is no way I would have this fun if not for Zealand introducing this place to me. I look forward to returning there!
Thanks again to Zealand and Chelsea for introducing us to The Discovery Museum!
love,
Julien

Sliding on Tuesday, May 3!

Hi everybody!
It's me, Julien the Toddler!
Happy Birthday Mommy aka Mamma!
Anyway here are some video stills of me sliding down the slide at Glen Park on Tuesday May 3.

Here I am at the top of the slide. I had to walk up all these steps just to get here.

I'm slowly descending - you can see William walking up as he prepares to go down the slide next. He's almost 3, so he's older than me.

Here I descend - since it's a sunny day, I'm wearing my sun hat!

You can't see me too clearly because of the sun, but here I am!

Finally I'm at the bottom... and probably ready to climb the steps again to go back to the top!
Love,
Julien the Baby